Local studio Hariri Pontarini Architects Glass boxes over the brick Arshez For 12 Osington Commercial Building in TorontoOntario.
The 12 Osington is a 15,790-class foot (1,467-class-meter) building completed in 2023 which includes a ground-level retail location, the top with a three-storey of the offices. According to the studio, “It always seems that it has always been”.
“Successful design expresses texture and emotions that both fit in its context and also have an edge,” Hariri Pontarini Architects Founder fellow Assistant Hariri told Dizen.
“A building must feel that it has always been, and at the same time, it provokes you to look twice. It is a challenge of architecture to achieve a design that feels that it is especially in its location and not anywhere else.”
Working with local developer HulkmarkThe studio was informed by the 19th-century brick buildings and trendy shops, restaurants and neighborhood nightspots as well as trendy shops, restaurants and nightspots-working to make something that may fit in its context and stand out as a center.
Hariri said, “The mask should have been fickle and bizarre and kept in mind keeping in mind the neighborhood. It was also respected by (was) the scale of adjacent buildings, including a historic fire hall to the next door,” Hariri explained that 12 Osington replaced a two-manzila brick building, such as two levels were added to a current structure.
The lower two levels are made of multicolored brick, which are arranged to make irregular arches that are offset between the floors and pay homage to the Vernacular Toronto buildings, reviving the tradition of bricks surrounded by handmade, water.
At the ground level, arches are found to make semi-grass voids at the corners, as the entry points were expelled from the masonry. Meanwhile, a small, stretched arch opens a portal from the road to the retail place.
At the second level, a long, narrow archway balances a broad opening in a small, a coordinated rhythm. But when the arches change the corner, they return to a regular rhythm under the northern lane.
The studio said, “Arches tolerate the weight of the bricks above, reviving the role of material in the structural system.”
“Steel-beam framework supports nail-lminated timber panels, made of finger-linked spruce, with a transparent finish for a modern industrial aesthetics with the heritage parquet in the neighborhood.”
The arches have a single glass aircraft, implicated in dark steel and bronze, underlining the shapes. The studio stated that the brick levels completely shine and the upper floors are set back, “designed to mix with light and sky as air.”
The modular glass that ends in a thin, parapet-less roofline, retreats from the road, forming linear roofs marked with delicate bronze balustrads.
The studio said, “This juice of old and new, texture and transparent, heavy and light, expresses the story of the road, and the present,” the studio said.
The studio said, “To reinforce the right place of this building between a wide range of low-growing construction types, which means more than a century, making some authentic, acceptable and honest,” the studio said.
Recently, Hariri Pontarini Architects wrapped one Systematically shaped theater building In glass for Stratford Festival in Ontario. Studio also designed Medical clinic Welcoming places prepared after the lounge of the first class airplane in Toronto.
Is by photography Doublespace photography And Brendon McNell,
Project Credit:
design team: Consulted Hariri, Dorn Mainhard, Kent Eliuk, Kaitharine Parjai
Customer: Hulkmark
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