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#Repost • @teeplearchitects Located near a busy Toronto downtown intersection, the Governor General's award-winning 60 Richmond East Housing Cooperative building seeks to provide an alternative to the local ubiquitous glass tower condominium projects. The 85-unit co-operative was designed to house tenants that required relocation due to the high-profile redevelopment of Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. Employed in the hospitality industry, the residents are all members of local union: “Unite Here”. They run and operate a restaurant and training kitchen on the ground floor, while a community garden on the sixth floor terrace provides food for the restaurant and uses the organic waste generated by the kitchens as compost for the garden. This creates a self-sustaining condition called ‘urban permaculture’. - At 60 Richmond, the architecture acts as a medium to cultivate greenery, cool and cleanse the air, and absorb storm water. All roofs on the project are green surfaces, which, combined with a high-performance rain-screen envelope, help to insulate the building and limit heat island effect in the downtown core. - The year 2019 marks Teeple Architects’ 30th anniversary. To commemorate this major milestone, we’ll be sharing 30 notable projects and moments from the past three decades. Follow along with #Teeple30 . . . . #TeepleArchitects #Teeple30 #Toronto #Ontario #Canada #ResidentialArchitecture #Architectural #Design #CanadianArchitecture #CanadianDesign #ig_architecture #BuildingLovers #ContemporaryArchitecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2qCy3Hi38/?igshid=7cgvdtzserpz

#Repost • @teeplearchitects SQ is the first high-rise condominium in the renewed Alexandra Park neighbourhood. The intention of the renewal is to better integrate Alexandra Park into the City by extending streets and parks between the neighbourhood and surrounding community. It aims to create a mixed-income neighbourhood, with a combination of private ownership and TCHC rental housing. Intending to interweave SQ into its context while creating an exciting work of architecture of which the community can be proud, the building’s mass grows out of the low-rise buildings on Queen Street, and references the mixed heights of a variety of surrounding buildings. The massing is intended to work as a connective tissue - unifying a neighbourhood of disparate building forms. This hill town-like character is accentuated by a dynamic arrangement of cubic balconies. This creates an engaging and playful façade that resulted in a more solid envelope - helping the project achieve LEED Gold. - The year 2019 marks Teeple Architects’ 30th anniversary. To commemorate this major milestone, we’ll be sharing 30 notable projects and moments from the past three decades. Follow along with #Teeple30 . . . . #TeepleArchitects #SQ #SQ1 #Tridel #AlexandraPark #Toronto #YYC #Ontario #Canada #ResidentialArchitecture #ResidentialDesign #Facade #FacadeDesign #Building #Condo #CondoDesign #Architecture #Architectural #Design #CanadianArchitecture #CanadianDesign https://www.instagram.com/p/CGnH8HhlZLm/?igshid=1rt4df5v5z2wm