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The Mews
Toronto, Canada
Finalist, 2018 A+Awards, Commercial - Unbuilt Commercial
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The Mews
Toronto, Canada
Finalist, 2018 A+Awards, Commercial - Unbuilt Commercial
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STATUS
Concept
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Streets are the arteries of our cities. Pedestrians flow; animation and street-level retail is the energy that flows through. Our approach for a commercial re-development downtown Toronto questions what street retail in twenty-first century is, more specifically, in dense, mixed-use urban neighbourhoods. Acting on the public realm by adding public spaces to the city, the proposal merges civic and commercial life.
Taking cues from the neighbourhood’s fabric and history, a diagonal mews cuts through the site. The mews restores a lost connection, expanding on the existing network of Victoria-era pedestrian laneways. The project diagonal is the natural urban response to reviving the lost fabric by providing a publicly accessible, commercially charged, open to the sky connection.
Offering space for diversified uses, the mews offers a “democratic” passage with commercial units on two sides. Animated through three “urban rooms” – forecourt, passage and courtyard, the design focuses on a community-centered retail strategy. While the diagonal provides the most direct route, the massing, retail presence and architecture shape the experience. The main feature of the building is nested in the sculpted stone masonry walls.
Three distinct buildings vary in height maximizing sun exposure and quality of light. At noon sun penetrates the mews, gently grazing the stone facades. The prominent wall kink creates juxtaposing experience of compression and reflection in the lower portion, while opening to the sky in the upper. Local to Eastern Canada, natural, sun-absorbing stone, draws the pedestrian closer to the façade further enhancing the pedestrian-retail dynamic.
Along the mews an undulating wood soffit guides to a sun-lit quaint courtyard. The courtyard benefits from sun exposure, openness and warm materials becoming the ground for community events and art integration. The project is conceived as a symbiotic merging of future urban retail experience, public realm, and iconic, yet deeply contextual architecture.
Client:
First Capital Realty et Greybrook Realty Partners
Credits:
- NEUF architect(e)s - Technical Architect - Marina Socolova
- NEUF architect(e)s - Lead Architect - Lilia Koleva
- NEUF architect(e)s - Design Architect - Jean-Louis Leger
- NEUF architect(e)s - Partner Architect - Azad Chichmanian
Taking cues from the neighbourhood’s fabric and history, a diagonal mews cuts through the site. The mews restores a lost connection, expanding on the existing network of Victoria-era pedestrian laneways. The project diagonal is the natural urban response to reviving the lost fabric by providing a publicly accessible, commercially charged, open to the sky connection.
Offering space for diversified uses, the mews offers a “democratic” passage with commercial units on two sides. Animated through three “urban rooms” – forecourt, passage and courtyard, the design focuses on a community-centered retail strategy. While the diagonal provides the most direct route, the massing, retail presence and architecture shape the experience. The main feature of the building is nested in the sculpted stone masonry walls.
Three distinct buildings vary in height maximizing sun exposure and quality of light. At noon sun penetrates the mews, gently grazing the stone facades. The prominent wall kink creates juxtaposing experience of compression and reflection in the lower portion, while opening to the sky in the upper. Local to Eastern Canada, natural, sun-absorbing stone, draws the pedestrian closer to the façade further enhancing the pedestrian-retail dynamic.
Along the mews an undulating wood soffit guides to a sun-lit quaint courtyard. The courtyard benefits from sun exposure, openness and warm materials becoming the ground for community events and art integration. The project is conceived as a symbiotic merging of future urban retail experience, public realm, and iconic, yet deeply contextual architecture.
Client:
First Capital Realty et Greybrook Realty Partners
Credits:
- NEUF architect(e)s - Technical Architect - Marina Socolova
- NEUF architect(e)s - Lead Architect - Lilia Koleva
- NEUF architect(e)s - Design Architect - Jean-Louis Leger
- NEUF architect(e)s - Partner Architect - Azad Chichmanian
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