How Movement Becomes a Tool for Design By Sara D’Amato, Intern Architect OAA Architecture is often understood through drawings, models, and digital simulations. But long before a design becomes a physical object, it is experienced as movement: the turn of the body at a corner, the rhythm of steps down a corridor, the shift of…
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Building the West Calgary Recreation Centre + Public Library, One Piece at a Time There’s something deeply satisfying about watching a digital design come to life in physical form. For the West Calgary Recreation Centre + Public Library, we wanted to build more than a model — we wanted to build a story you could…
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Spring Stories: Timber, Teamwork, and Tiny Buildings As the city blooms around us, we’re reflecting on what it means to build with care — from exploring the possibilities of mass and hybrid timber, to designing a miniature pavilion with students in High Park, to reconnecting with each other over a curling stone. Scroll…
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Happy updates from BNKC. Project Update Our Bold Vision for Toronto’s Golden Mile 8 Buildings | 10-53 Storeys | 2.3 Million sq ft | ~2,775 Units | ~10,640 Residents We are thrilled to share that our community plan for Eglinton Avenue’s Golden Mile has been officially submitted for OPA and ZBA approvals, offering the public…
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BNKC, in collaboration with The Working Centre and Perimeter Development, is excited to announce that construction is now underway at 97 Victoria Street North in downtown Kitchener. Part of the transformative “Making Home” initiative, this project reimagines an existing site into a comprehensive community hub designed to address the urgent needs of Kitchener’s most vulnerable…
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People, Projects, and Ideas. Project Update Counting Down to Clockwork’s Grand Debut Tick-tock, tick-tock! Can you hear it? That’s the sound of excitement building as Clockwork Condominiums gears up for occupancy. Building 1 and the underground parking garage are sprinting towards completion, aiming for a grand reveal by November 2024. We’ve got floors…
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Two projects, currently under construction, have topped out this year. East City Condos in Peterborough is nearing completion, and Clockwork at Upper Joshua Creek in Oakville has reached full height in one of its two buildings.
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Top 10 Highlights from 2023 It’s been a year full of meaningful projects, fabulous people, and memorable events. As 2023 comes to a close, let’s look back with a BNKC Top 10! Yay for New People! 2023 was yet another year of growth at BNKC. The following fantastic people (couldn’t be more true!) joined our (already…
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Completed this past summer, Serra House fosters fraternity and community living for seminarians. The project seamlessly integrates a modern infill building with a heritage home, to provide student housing and space for study and prayer. The design merges old and new, facilitating fluid circulation between buildings which provide spacious private rooms, naturally lit communal lounges, a gym, library, and communal terraces, creating…
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View this email in your browser Hello! It’s been a minute… You may have noticed we’ve been pretty quiet lately. That’s because we’ve been super busy doing the things we like to share in our newsletters! We’ve been fortunate at BNKC to have been engaged on so many projects throughout the pandemic. The…
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