Snøhetta’s New York office along with London’s Heatherwick Studio have released a series of renderings that conceptualize how mass timber construction could be deployed at a proposed redevelopment at Quayside, a 12-acre waterfront district east of downtown Toronto. Sidewalk Labs, a New York-based company that accelerates urban innovation, hired the two firms as it refined its 2017 competition-winning proposal for the site. Sidewalk’s proposal infuses the project with tech innovation and pioneers jobs development, advanced construction techniques, and financing strategies that disrupt the hidebound urban-development process.
Called Sidewalk Toronto, the project proposes 3 million square feet of mixed-use development on a brownfield site, including 3,000 apartments and a public plaza that wraps an inlet. A two-million-square-foot Google headquarters sweetens the deal (Sidewalk Labs is a subsidiary of Alphabet, the company that owns Google).
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