Each month Metropolis highlights active projects’ materials palettes from offices that tackle their own interior materials. This month they share materials from NADAAA’s Daniels Building project at the University of Toronto. Read on HERE.

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“Where the old meets the new is where the Daniels Building is most exciting. Original Gothic details such as ornamental arched windows lend the library a cloister-like hush, while the stacks on a lower level adjacent in the extension are discreetly lit with fluorescents that surround each bookcase to give them an otherworldly glow.”

Read the full article HERE.

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“a new script for a forgotten piece of land, and an invitation—to students, teachers, and the public—to engage in a critical contemporary landscape discourse: How will we design the urban landscapes of the future?”

NADAAA partnered with landscape architects Public Work at One Spadina, part of the site includes Darwin’s Hill, a research tool used by students and faculty. Read more about how Darwin’s Hill will be used HERE. Check out this month’s full issue of Ground HERE.

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“Toronto has squandered much of its architectural heritage. Dozens of grand old buildings fell to the wrecker’s ball in the postwar rush to modernize and renew the city. so when a building that somehow survived the years of careless destruction gets a makeover, and a brilliant one at that, the only thing to do is stand up and cheer.”

Marcus Gee from Toronto’s The Globe and Mail writes on the revitalization of the Knox College building at One Spadina Crescent and the new home of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Read the full article HERE.

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