130 Bloor Street West (Practice of Architecture)
Toronto
ON
Award Category:
Innovation in Architecture
Quadrangle Architects Limited
130 Bloor Street West is the most elite address in the heart of Toronto. It features extraordinary residential suites, including a heritage-listed, luxury two-storey penthouse considered one of the finest examples of 1960s modernist residential design in Canada, as well as office space andhigh-end retail at grade.
Renowned for excellence in adaptive reuse work, Quadrangle Architects Limited was selected to undertake the project, including the challenge of adding onto the top of a building while renovating the operational floors below.
The stunning result? Fourteen new luxury condos, nine floors of office space and one floor of prime retail space.
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This project offers important approaches in the practice and process of complex, high density projects.
Great inventiveness of logistical planning and technical sophistication.
The new condominium units are impressive; a very elegant design resolution creating “houses” in the sky, not anonymous “modules.”