Peter Fletcher Smith, DTAH partner and landscape architect for the new Goodes Hall, discusses how the landscape design knits into the larger campus, and yet reflects the particular character of the new building and its immediate context / written by Christine Peets
The Ontario Growth Secretariat case study illustrates key policies in the "Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe", and outlines the redevelopment project’s success in transforming an urban brownfield site “into a multi-purpose facility and public park, while creating a transit-supportive, pedestrian-oriented environment and high quality public open spaces.”
After 30 years without a permanent home, Crow’s Theatre plans to settle down in Leslieville, in facilities designed by DTAH / written by Carys Mills
Artscape Wychwood Barns is selected as a top ten mixed-use project with an innovative take on combining various project types, which creates a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
Plans for a $17.5 million landmark footbridge were met with unanimous support and even applause during a Sept. 27 open house at the Glebe Community Centre / written by Laura Mueller
Home to bicycle workshops, gardening seminars and Toronto’s largest farmers’ market, Evergreen Brick Works has come a long, long way from its industrial roots / written by Benjamin Leszcz
Architecture critic Christopher Hume selects 50 Park Road, DTAH's studio building, as one of Toronto's best unknown buildings in his column "Beyond Bricks / written by Christopher Hume
The Architourist reviews Harbourfont’s architecture gallery exhibit “Born Again: The Repurposed City” featuring an installation by DTAH / written by Dave LeBlanc
The 2012 SAB Awards special issue features the Centre for Green Cities at the Evergreen Brick Works, a project that transformed an abandoned industrial site in Toronto's Don Valley into an environmentally-themed community landmark.
Development Editor Bert Archer draws attention to Evergreen Brick Works as one of five buildings that have made their neighbourhoods better / written by Bert Archer
Queens Quay is finally on its way to becoming the signature tourist street in all of Toronto / written by Amber Daugherty.
Six years in the making, Waterfront Toronto announces the beginning of construction on Queens Quay / written by Kelli Korducki
Waterfront Toronto promises to turn rundown street into a tree-lined promenade / written by Tess Kalinowski.
In a golden age of adaptive reuse, heritage buildings are being lovingly restored for new purposes, turning into compelling examples of environmentally friendly design / written by Pamela Young.
DTAH principal, Roger du Toit, shares two anecdotes about Canadian architect John Parkin.
The Evergreen Brick Works is included in the American Society of Landscape Architects' collection of projects that successfully and sustainably manage stormwater.
Durham College/UOIT is included in the American Society of Landscape Architects' collection of projects that successfully and sustainably manage stormwater.
Targeting LEED Platinum, the Centre for Green Cities at Evergreen Brick Works demonstrates recent advances in green building technology at the heart of what was once a derelict urban industrial site / written by Pamela Young.
A description of the early success of the Gordon Street Affordable Housing condominium development in Guelph, which includes residential live and live-work units, as well as ground-floor commercial space / written by Vik Kirsch.
DTAH's Megan Torza discusses the reclamation of the Evergreen Brick Works site and the challenges in creating Canada's first large-scale community environmental centre.
Former industrial sites are increasingly being transformed into community spaces, cultural institutions, and social service centres, as the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, an exemplary project, reveals / written by Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar and Joe Nasr.
Adaptive reuse projects, such as the Artscape Wychwood Barns, strive to maintain connections to the past, conserving resources through the reuse of materials and benefitting communities by revitalizing neighborhoods / written by Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar and Joe Nasr.
Drawing on examples from the Toronto Central Waterfront, the Queens Quay Revitalization, and the East Bayfront Precinct Plan, Adam Nicklin, OALA, and Victoria Taylor, OALA, discuss the similarities and differences between landscape architecture and engineering.
The Evergreen Brick Works site has been transformed into Canada’s first large-scale community environmental centre: an international showcase for green design and innovation, and a vibrant public space that hosts a farmers’ market and retail garden market, plus learning spaces for youth and adults.
Highlights from the Artscape Wychwood Barns, a mixed-use centre for artists and environmental organizations, realized through the conversion of an early 20th century streetcar repair and maintenance facility in a dense residential neighbourhood in downtown Toronto.
The story of the St. Clair Carhouse revival as the Artscape Wychwood Barns, a neighbourhood arts and cultural centre, offers multiple lessons in the value of adaptive reuse and sustainable design, historic preservation, and community engagement.
Following her interests has lead DTAH's Clara Kwon on a journey between city and country.
The first phase of the DTAH/West 8-designed Waterfront Promenade and boardwalk consists of a diagonal walkway of granite and tumbled concrete cobblestones in a maple leaf mosaic pattern, running from Queens Quay to the water’s edge.
A row of derelict 19th-century shops are to be redeveloped into a new two-storey building that will serve as a “storefront” for Little Trinity Church’s ministry, mission and community.
The Wychwood Barns and 900 Queen Street West studios are included in a diverse portfolio of underutilized buildings across Toronto that Artscape has transformed into multi-tenant space for the arts and culture sector, illustrating the power of the artistic impulse in creative city building / written by Rhys Phillips.
DTAH's Bryce Miranda discusses the transformation of the Evergreen Brick Works, an industrial heritage site.
DTAH-designed Southbrook Vineyards, a LEED Gold, certified organic winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, receives a CSLA Regional Citation Award.
The adaptive reuse of long-vacated streetcar service barns as the Artscape Wychwood Barns, a cultural precinct in midtown Toronto, is a prime example of what the city is starting to do right / written by David Steiner.
Toronto’s Waterfront development is breathtaking in its total approach. Hopes are the world will take notice and use this tremendous example of urban development new-think as an opportunity to learn / written by Kelly Gray.
People-friendly landscapes transform Lake Ontario’s shoreline, a component of the DTAH/West 8 waterfront master plan / written by Jenny Andrews.
The plan to redesign Queens Quay, the backbone of Toronto’s waterfront revitalization plans, finally has the go-ahead / written by Patty Winsa.
The plan to eliminate two lanes of traffic on Queens Quay Boulevard and transform the thoroughfare into a grand promenade has received final approval from the province / written by Kelly Grant.
Highlights of several new parks and public spaces on the Toronto waterfront, including the DTAH/West 8-designed WaveDecks and the East Bayfront community.
How urban planners are turning industrial eyesores into popular public spaces / written by Tim McKeough.
A profile of the DTAH-designed University of Ontario Institute of Technology, which integrates the urban and the rural and the built and natural environments / Braun Publications.
A feature on architect and DTAH principal, Joe Lobko, who has played a key role in some of the city’s most innovative projects, such as the Artscape Wychwood Barns and the Evergreen Brickworks / written by Tracy Hanes.
Described as a “simple and elegant intervention” by the jury, the Spadina WaveDeck, the first of seven timber “waves” planned for the central waterfront, receives a CSLA National Merit Award.
The design excellence and boldness of the waterfront revitalization, as exemplified by the newly opened Simcoe WaveDeck, will bring the waterfront back to life / written by Christopher Hume.
The flamboyant Simcoe WaveDeck, a key piece in the ongoing remake of the Toronto waterfront, is a $5.5-million flourish of dark red wood and dramatic curvature / written by Chelsea Murray.
Canada’s cities are getting parks that blend hangouts and high design. Adele Weder picks five of the newest and most notable, including the waterfront WaveDecks.
Organic wine making needs a sustainably designed building / written by Martin Davidson.
DTAH principal Peter Fletcher Smith discusses the way in which landscape architects are increasingly taking lead roles within complex projects with comprehensive consultant teams.
DTAH principal Joe Lobko writes that the Artscape Wychwood Barns project exemplifies not only community collaboration, but also prolonged professional collaboration.
Joe Lobko and Megan Torza, DTAH principals, describe the features of the redesigned Artscape Wychwood Barns.
One of 35 entries in a contest for a pedestrian bridge in Calgary, DTAH & Delcan's design consists of bold lines and dramatic flourishes / written by Jason Markusoff.
An undulating design by DTAH/West 8 gives Toronto access to its waterfront / written by Adam Regn Arvidson.
A display at the Royal Ontario Museum looks at some bold city-building ideas — old and new — that missed the boat, including the Lower Don Lands competition submission by DTAH and Weiss/Manfredi / written by John Bentley Mays.
What’s unique about the design of the Evergreen Brick Works, and what garnered it the 2008 Holcim North America Awards Acknowledgement prize, is the way the it integrates into the environment, both metaphorically and physically / written by Ian Harvey.
Designed as catalysts for urban regeneration, these landscape architecture projects, including DTAH and West 8’s East Bayfront Promenade, will become the organizing structure for the entire waterfront / written by James Roche.
DTAH principal Robert (Bob) Allsopp accepts the 2008 OALA Pinnacle Award for Landscape Architectural Excellence, recognition of a body of work that demonstrates outstanding professional accomplishment.
Four of the most cutting-edge examples of the creative redevelopment of former industrial sites, including the Evergreen Brick Works / written by Rachel Pulfer.
Long in the planning stages, projects aimed at revitalizing Toronto’s waterfront are moving ahead / written by Nestor Gula.
A Toronto brick factory finds new life as a centre for urban renewal and sustainable design / written by Aldrich Pears and Associates.
The Evergreen Brick Works is envisioned as the transformation of an industrial facility, largely abandoned since 1989, into a sustainable village that ties together nature, culture and community.
Headed by architect Joe Lobko of DTAH, the Evergreen Brick Works will see the transformation of a former industrial property into a sustainable multi-use complex dedicated to the idea of nature in the city / written by Christopher Hume.
Infused with a green vision for the city, Evergreen imagined the rusting
buildings and gouged earth on the Brick Works site as an ideal test bed to research urban-based environmental change.
The site design for Toronto’s Brick Works, a unique project that involves restoring nature in the city while incorporating heritage buildings and an art component, was a collaboration between seven design firms, including DTAH.
DTAH’s integrated approach to designing communities / written by Angela Altass.
The process of creating Canada’s most sustainable cultural landscape at the Evergreen Brick Works will return a sense of nature to the city of Toronto / written by Ian Chodikoff.
A growing list of grassroots organizations and young designers are putting the idea of fun back into the way we use our cities, as exemplified by the Quay to the City event by DTAH and West 8 / written by Chris Hardwicke.
This document highlights DTAH’s campus related planning, landscape architectural, and architectural experience.
DTAH/West 8 announced as the winner of the $20 million competition to redesign Toronto’s central waterfront / written by Christopher Hume.
As a temporary installation, the Quay to the City Bike Arch isn’t likely to enter the pantheon of bike-related art-objects / written by Peter Goddard.
A discussion of the DTAH/West 8 Quay to the City event, which provided a sneak peak of what is to come for Toronto's waterfront / written by Christopher Hume.
A dry run for permanent changes starting next summer, the central waterfront, along Queens Quay from York to Spadina, has been handed over to pedestrians and cyclists, flowers and grass / written by Christopher Hume.
After years of debate about how to enliven its much-maligned waterfront, Toronto has selected a bold yet realistic plan headed up by Dutch firm West 8 and Toronto firm DTAH / written by Elizabeth Pagliacdo.
West 8 and DTAH’s winning design is a marvel of clarity and credibility / written by Lisa Rochon.
Five finalists unveil their plans for reviving the waterfront / written by Robert Oullette.
