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Canadian Architect鈥檚 cover story on One Spadina highlights building's place in the city

Magazine calls the Daniels Building 鈥渁 remarkable feat of form-making, site planning, and city building鈥
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Canadian Architect says about One Spadina's graduate studio that its "unique clerestories generate a dramatic spatial narrative and extensive daylighting" (all photos by John Horner, courtesy of Canadian Architect)

The new home of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is featured as .

The article, written by Ken Greenberg, a U of T alumnus and the former director of urban design and architecture for the city of Toronto, looks at the place of One Spadina in the city.

鈥淚t is fitting that the urban design catalyst for the western edge of the campus should be an architecture school,鈥 writes Greenberg of the new Daniels Building, noting the landscape, which now includes a promenade that encircles the site, bike parking, and a raised belvedere that when complete will act as an outdoor event space with views down Spadina Avenue to the lake.

鈥淭hese convivial gestures speak to a new understanding of the university鈥檚 place in the city as committed steward and active contributor.鈥

Greenberg calls the Daniels Building 鈥渁 remarkable feat of form-making, site planning, and city building.鈥

Designed by Nader Tehrani and Katherine Faulkner, principals of the internationally acclaimed firm NADAAA 鈥 in collaboration with architect-of-record Adamson Associates, landscape architects Public Work, and heritage architects ERA 鈥 the Daniels Building at One Spadina houses the University of Toronto鈥檚 programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

 

The Canadian Architect article is one of a number that have recently been published about the Daniels Building. , the , , , and , among others, have reviewed One Spadina as it nears completion.

 

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