Excerpt from www.urbantoronto.ca:
On May 20th, the Scarborough Civic Centre Library officially opened to the public.
Designed by LGA Architectural Partners in association with Philip H. Carter Architecture + Urban Planning, the library opened with a ceremony of music, dance, and public readings. As the Toronto Public Library's 100th branch, the new library represents an important milestone for the city, further expanding what is already one of the largest and most comprehensive library systems in the world.
From outside, the building's distinctive black spruce exterior shines in the sunlight, with the library standing out amidst the glass and steel city rising around it. According to LGA Architectural Partners, the architecture of the library "was conceived to create a green respite within the immediate, heavily urban context." Featuring four green roofs that seem to rise out of the soil like an extension of the landscape around it—rather than an intrusion upon it—the building "replenishes the grassy hill it supplants."
With a bright, open-concept wooden space surrounded by panoramic windows, the interior—which, on a sunny day, almost glows in natural light—is energizing and naturalistic. The library is at once a shelter from, and an invitation to, the natural world around it. With the gardens, green roofs, floor-to-ceiling windows, and wooden frame, the architecture strives to maintain a respectful cohesion between the library and the landscape around it.
In addition to the exciting Digital Innovation Hubs and 3D printers, the library also features outdoor reading gardens, an Early Literacy program for children, publicly accessible computers, and free wi-fi.
The library's collection features over 40,000 items, which include books, audiobooks, magazines, and DVDs. Serving an increasingly multi-lingual community, the collection features publications in Chinese, Tamil, and Gujarati, as well as English. With the opening of the branch, the community celebrates a new hub of learning and social life, while the city around it welcomes an elegant new public building that has already become a local landmark.
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Excerpt from www1.toronto.ca:
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building: 222 Bremner Boulevard
Era: Post-War
Style: Various
The recent addition to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre is located within the Union Station Heritage Conservation District. Completed in 1997 and designed by Bregman + Hamann architects, the addition contains over 1 000 000 sq feet of exhibition space, the majority of which is located underground. The facilities built presence within the district is limited to the main south entrance, at Bremner Boulevard and Lower Simcoe, and several entrances to the underground parking, located in and around Roundhouse Park. The south building of the convention centre exists under lands of a variety of ownerships, including the railways and the City of Toronto. At the surface, the majority of these lands are part of the City’s open space system. Connected to the Roundhouse Park, CN Tower Plaza, and lands incorporated with the Rogers Centre, open air events associated with the convention centre regularly take place in this space.
The convention centre provides access to the Skywalk and PATH systems, and access through the convention centre to Front Street to the north, as well as attracting thousands of visitors to the city every year for its conventions and special events. The convention centre plays an important role within the City and via its connection to the PATH system and Skywalk, is functionally important in terms of its connectivity and use. However, the convention centre is not being considered a piece of fixed ‘heritage’ within the district, and will not be subject to the heritage review process.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Toronto Police Headquarters is the headquarters of the Toronto Police Service, located at 40 College Street in Toronto, Ontario. It is the first purpose built police headquarters in Toronto since the formation of the originating force in 1835.
The current headquarters is on the former site of the downtown Toronto YMCA building at Bay Street and Grenville. The Central YMCA Building was built in 1913 and vacated in 1984 for their new building on Grosvenor Street.
Completed in 1988 by Toronto firms Shore Tilbe Irwin and Partners and Mathers and Haldenby, the twelve floor 164m tall building is an example of Postmodern style. It was built to replace the older and smaller office on Jarvis Street.
The building is composed of a series of glass block and pink granite cubes which step back as they rise along College and Grenville Streets. An octagonal twelve storey tower meets the southeast corner of Bay and Grenville Streets. Natural light pours into the central area of the building through a ten-storey high atrium. A domed roof crowns the elevator lobby atop the terraced structure.
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