MOZO
(MODERN LIVING ZONE)

In the 19th century, King and Sherbourne was one of Toronto’s main intersections. Today it is a neighborhood in transition, being revived economically and architecturally by the city’s flourishing design industry.

MoZo is the signpost of that transition, reinterpreting the precinct’s built heritage through the filter of a modernist aesthetic.

On the south and east, MoZo employs the language of surrounding warehouse buildings with strong bands of masonry alternating with large steel-framed windows. Facing west, it echoes the polished and transparent towers of Bay Street. The design is innovative, forward looking and dramatic. In September 2003 the Toronto Star called MoZo ‘one of the most beautiful buildings in Toronto’.

CONTEXT DEVELOPMENT
TORONTO, CANADA
2003
$60 MILLION
18,265 m2
207 UNITS