When working with a historic building, developers can add value by expanding it or by enhancing its character, two strategies that are often in conflict.
KPMB Architects, Diamond Schmitt Architects, HDR Architecture, and Stantec Architecture designed a new hospital that would better serve patients’ happiness and well-being.
In 2007 the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto launched an architectural competition for an addition. It had outgrown its 1995 home located alongside historic houses, churches, and academic buildings on the university's downtown campus. The winning submission, by Toronto-based KPMB Architects, represents the school's ideals of community and integrative thinking in physical form. The 150,000-square-foot, LEED Silver'certified vertical facility doubles the size of the school. It adds an event hall, classrooms, offices, and a library, as well as conference and hospitality areas, in a glazed four-story slab structure topped by a five-story tower. Architects
