Located in Toronto's historic Distillery District, the Deaf Culture Centre is a retrofitted portion of a historic heritage building once used for producing spirits.

Part of a re-design for a lackluster but well located town house in the center of downtown Toronto, this efficient yet kitchen provides the owners with a formal dining/entertaining room and an area for casual eating—both indoors and out.

Most people are put out when it comes to deciding whether or not to bring their aging parents into their home.

When Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) was offered the commission of designing a 14,000-square-foot expansion to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, opened in 1984 as Canada’s only museum devoted to ceramics, KPMB quickly tapped long-time collaborator Suzanne Powadiuk Design to complete the project’s interior lighting design.

While Foster + Partners was building a new home for the University of Toronto’s pharmacy school, the university commissioned Moriyama & Teshima to transform the 25-year-old building that the pharmacy school had just vacated, converting the sacred halls of academe into a spiritual center for the university community.

At the Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building at the University of Toronto, Foster + Partners has turned contextual design on its head.