There are few projects in Toronto that have been more highly anticipated than Limberlost Place. Nearly a decade in the making, the academic building — which opened this fall on the waterfront campus of Toronto’s George Brown College to house the school’s architectural studies program — marked a major milestone as the city’s first mass timber institution. Its design, by Moriyama Teshima Architects (MTA) in partnership with Vancouver studio Acton Ostry Architects, had been lauded with accolades well before the project even broke ground.
When I first visited the building on a hard-hat tour in September 2024, the buzz was palpable as contractors put the finishing touches on the interior. As I stepped off the street and into the soaring,...
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A code-shifting precedent long before its completion, the George Brown College hub offers students first-hand immersion into design innovation.