Located in Toronto’s Summerhill neighborhood, this single-family 4,000-square-foot, four-story house overlooks a forested ravine to the south, taking advantage of views of the city skyline during the winter months and the lush ravine in summer months.
According to architect Donald Chong, when his clients wanted to build a house in The Beaches, a popular Toronto neighborhood, “they were committed to the idea that they could live well in a compact square footage.
For nearly half a century, the Royal Conservatory, Canada’s venerable music education institution, has occupied a distinctive late-19th-century masonry building at the northern edge of the University of Toronto campus on Bloor Street, one of the city’s major east-west thoroughfares.
A 1,539-square-foot pavilion housing restrooms, a planned café, and mechanical services for the park, including a UV storm-water-filtration system in the basement.
A three-level public library that extends the original neoclassical library building from 1912 with a 12,000-square-foot addition, for a total of 25,000 square feet.
The Galley House emerged out of the context of studying patterns of the evolving typological landscape in Toronto, and the desire over the past century to maintain natural light within spaces affected by an urban block-type progressively becoming more dense and refined.
An adaptive re-use project transformed Central Hospital into the Sherbourne Health Centre, designed to provide care for the homeless, newcomers to Canada, and the lesbian, bisexual, gay, transsexual, and transgender community.
Like a pair of jugglers, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe approached the Integral House, in Toronto, as a balancing act—creating a building that seems to defy basic forces of architecture.
Project Specs Integral House Toronto, Canada Shim-Sutcliffe Architects << Return to article the People Architect Shim-Sutcliffe Architects 441 Queen Street East Toronto, Ontario Canada M5A 1T5 T. (416) 368-3892 F. (416) 368-9468 info@shimsut.com Brigitte Shim Hon FAIA and Howard Sutcliffe Hon FAIA(Principals) Betsy Williamson OAA(Project Architect), Andrew Hart (Assistant Project Architect), Denise Haradem, Kyra Clarkson, Michael Goorevich, Sara Iwata (Project Team) Interior designer: Julie Latraverse and Chris Oliver Engineer(s): Blackwell Bowick (Structural) Toews Engineering Systems (Mechanical) Dynamic Designs and Engineering (Electrical) NAK Design Group (Landscape) Suzanne Powadiuk Design Inc.(Lighting) Swallow Consultants (Acoustics) Dr. Ted Kesik (Building Envelope) Professor Shane Williamson
