Three new towers in Maple House at Canary Landing are the finest apartment buildings the city has seen in a generation
Simple from a distance; interesting from up close. That’s the recipe for attractive and enduring urban architecture. And the Danish architects COBE have delivered just such a project in downtown Toronto. Their two buildings designed with local firm architectsAlliance, mixes familiar red brick with subtle modernist flourishes.
The two COBE buildings rise to 16 storeys. A third is 26 floors tall; it was designed by the Toronto firm architectsAlliance, who also collaborated on the COBE buildings. Accordingly, cars and deliveries are banished from most of the three-building site. Instead, the buildings are lined to the north by Mill Street, while pedestrian-only courtyards lined the south side and the spaces between the towers. All these are designed by Montreal’s CCXA, formerly Claude Cormier + Associates.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
The architects say the brick boxes evoke the Distillery District across the street, Toronto’s best collection of Victorian industrial buildings. As for the curved white concrete up top, whose surface is scalloped into outward-facing points, Mr. Stubbergaard says this is a nod to a nearby set of grain silos and therefore to the area’s 20th-century industrial history.
The complex's courtyards boast a continuous carpet of red brick, punctuated by planters that will hold ironwoods and red maples.The third, easternmost building in the complex provides a useful contrast. It was designed solely by architectsAlliance , who are skilled designers of multifamily housing in Toronto. Its interior is similar to the COBE buildings, efficient and competent, and like them it employs red brick and white precast concrete.
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