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GH3 creates sculptural Stormwater Facility for new Toronto neighbourhood

Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

The building is intended to appear as a "poetic ellipsis amid the intensity of its surroundings". Harris Water Treatment Plant, which opened in 1941, and the Bloor Viaduct, an arch bridge designed by Edmund W Burke and completed in 1918. "It The facility comprises three major elements.

Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering Firms Client Clients

Raising the Benchmark: 7 Ways Architects Are Elevating the High-Rise in 2023

Architizer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, the rhythmic repetition of arched windows harks back to the old mercantile buildings that once peppered the landscape. Cradled between the two curvilinear blocks is a sheltered garden, which reads as a striking, verdant ellipsis from overhead. It’s a welcome, poetic disruption to the orthogonal urban mass.

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GH3 creates sculptural Stormwater Facility for new Toronto neighbourhood

Raising the Benchmark: 7 Ways Architects Are Elevating the High-Rise in 2023

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