DISTRICT LOFTS

The materials and highly unusual built form of District Lofts are deeply influenced by its context, a major downtown thoroughfare lined with four and five-storey brick industrial buildings.

The lower six floors are clad in brick and pre-cast concrete, continuing the roofline and street wall defined by surrounding warehouses. Retail space occupies the ground level, with two levels of public parking above. Residential units start at the fourth floor, raised above the noise of the street.

At the sixth floor, the building splits into two separate towers separated by a semi-public courtyard. The upper eight floors express a completely modern sensibility, with an innovative layout of two-storey ‘through-units’ – suites that run the full depth of each floor. Clad in glass and steel, the towers are flooded by daylight from the north and south and stand in contrast to the substantial base.

CONTEXT DEVELOPMENT
TORONTO, CANADA
2001
$20 MILLION
16,725 m2
146 UNITS