The University of Toronto’s (U of T’s) Innis College expansion project, nestled within a Diamond-and-Myers 1970s building and attached to a heritage-listed Victorian house, seeks to modernize while preserving the site’s distinct character, fostering...
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The University of Toronto (UofT) has selected the architects for the new James and Louise Temerty Building, with Canadian architect, Diamond Schmitt, and Netherlands-based, MVRDV, making the cut through a competitive international request-for-proposal (RFP)...
The Meeting Place at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), located in the heritage-status William G. Davis Building, underwent a challenging renovation, sensitive to the historical context of the building.
The design for the Dining and Operations Centre at the University of Toronto’s (U of T’s) Koffler Scientific Reserve (KSR) in King Township, Ontario, reimagines the future of school design by combining sustainability and...
University of Toronto’s newest research centre—consisting of cross-disciplinary university academics and 12 construction and architecture companies—will find ways to meet the urgent and growing need for infrastructure, without compounding the negative environmental impact.
An engineering research team from University of Toronto (UofT) and the Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC) will explore how concrete can be used to capture large amounts of CO2, as part of a $1.7 million federally funded...
The University of Toronto (U of T), Ont., has unveiled plans for a 10-storey building to provide housing for more than 200 graduate students and expand living, social, and study spaces on its St....
Growing green roof research in Toronto
(11/16/2017)
Urban flooding is a multibillion-dollar challenge for Canadians. Since the 1970s, approximately half of all natural disasters in the country have been caused by floods.
Ontario students catch TimberFever
(11/06/2017)
Last month, Toronto’s Ryerson University in partnership with the city-based Moses Structural Engineers, announced the winners of TimberFever—an annual competition where students are asked to build a life-size structure out of wood. Sixteen teams...
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has undergone an extensive renewal project, updating existing law buildings and adding 6131 m² (66,000 sf) to the campus. This work was intended to update the department’s...