Current Project Collaborators
Toronto area contains the second largest concentration of high-rise buildings in North America. The bulk of these are aging mid century apartment towers, built throughout the City and it’s suburbs in the post-war boom. The Tower Renewal Project is an initiative to re-examine this remarkable heritage, neighbourhood histories, their current place in our city, and their future potential in a green and equitable Toronto. Key considerations for this multidisciplinary project include decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through building and site retrofit, as well as enabling ‘complete communities’ through the introduction of on-site mixed-use, community services delivery, usable open and recreation space, as well as new retail, housing and employment opportunities. More about the Tower Renewal Project can be found here. Tower Renewal combines several streams of on-going research related to Toronto’s modern towers, including work by the University of Toronto, ERA Architects, and a growing number of organizations, Colleges and Universities across the region. A growing list of project collaborators currently includes: Growth Secretariat, Province of Ontario Cities Centre at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation Greater Toronto Apartment Association HIGHRISE: National Film Board of Canada York University: Global Suburbanism Institute Without Boundaries: George Brown College The Toronto Society of Architects Ontario Building Envelope Council With a focus of enabling vibrant neighbourhoods and healthy communities as well as a sustainable built environment, the Tower Renewal Project is a series of programs and initiatives which will continue to grow in the years to come. For more information on Tower Renewal please contact us. |
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