Locale: Oshawa, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2022 – 2024
Area: 9,100 ft2
A single-storey mansion just outside of Oshawa, Ontario, this luxury home provides a weekend getaway for a multi-generational family, and a permanent residence for its owners. Generous garages and living areas for both extended and direct families offer ample, relaxed, and flexible accommodations, with vistas towards open fields and woods for a sense of calm and privacy.
Locale: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2022 – 2024
Area: 3,400 ft2.
A 2-storey single family dwelling, our approach was to create a hybrid place of living that brought together the traditional suburban North American home with modern elements. By addressing an interior program reflected through exterior elevations, and a subtle contrast of contemporary and traditional finishes (metal cladding and stucco/stone), we attempted to situate the home as an escape from the pitfalls of the North American suburb. Through program and finishes, tied into the presence of old growth and mature vegetation on the lot (and surrounding lots), a more organic relationship with the environment offers a sense of place and belonging within the household and beyond its delineating walls.
Locale: Toronto, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2022 – 2024
Area: 2,100 ft2.
Nestled just outside the downtown core and within the vibrant Trinity-Bellwoods neighborhood, the renovation and expansion of an early 20th-century Victorian 2-storey home aimed to bring a more comfortable, welcoming, yet intimate living space. Previously closed off from both the street and rear with smaller windows, openings, and a clustered interior layout on a narrow floor plate, a larger modern bay window reaches out into a more public street life, and an extension on the rear provides more utilized space for both private and social functions of living. The re-arrangement of the interior partitions embraces the narrow footprint by bringing a strong sense of directionality through the home.
The addition of a third storey permitted the spreading of the required program over more space, offering a sense of reprieve by allowing the spaces below to breathe. This addition also offered a spectacular view of the downtown skyline, while allowing the bay window to have a stronger presence through its massing without overwhelming the continuity of the streetscape. Balancing the retention of the original brick cladding with softened industrial and contemporary finishes, the home situates itself in the rich and continual history of this neighborhood and that of more contemporary culture without flattening itself to passing styles.
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Locale: North York, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2021
Area: 20,000 ft2
Design Architect: Medina Architects
Project Manager: Mahmoud Kaddoura
A development consisting of ten units of row houses, Three Valleys finds itself in one of northern Toronto’s prime spots: minutes away from the main arteries of the city: highways 401 and the Don Valley Parkway. At this intersection also lies the Donald Golf Course and Don River, bringing to proximity both the energy and tranquility that the city has to offer.
Each ~2,000ft2 3-storey unit has been designed with generous openings and balconies, dedicated garages, and an overall modern character, making it ideal for increasingly prevalent live/work arrangements. Combined, the development contributes to the intensification intent of the area, while providing a rich street front with projecting architectural elements and gardens. Respecting the surrounding existing homes, rear setbacks were established to maintain a sense of privacy and to permit an abundance of daylight to fill the homes.
Locale: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2017 – 2019
Area: 80,000 ft2
Design Architect: MMC International Architects
Project Manager: Mahmoud Kaddoura
Photography by Prolenz Studio Inc.(https://prolenz.ca/).
As part of a three-phase development in the direct areas surrounding Square One shopping center, a revitalization effort within the Mississauga downtown core, the upgrades to double storey Entrance No. 4 were intended to bring it to the same standards established by the new Southwest Expansion and Holt Renfrew run. Upgrades included the re-arrangement and optimization of the existing entrance doors on both levels, replacement of outdated escalators and elevators, the upgrade of all finishes including floors, cladding, and stairs and associated hardware. The most notable upgrade was the modernization of the ceiling finishes and the integration of new LED luminaires and sleek linear diffusers.
The upgrades to Entrance No. 4 also saw the introduction of new food and beverage kiosks and the addition of new public washrooms.
Locale: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2015 – 2018
Area: 160,000 ft2
Architect Of Record: Lemay Michaud
Design Architect: MMC International Architects
Design Architect (Food District): Gianony Patricony
Design Architect (The Rec Room): Core Architects
Project Manager/Design: Mahmoud Kaddoura
Photography by Prolenz Studio Inc.(https://prolenz.ca/).
With the nationwide closing of the American Target Department stores came an exciting opportunity to reimagine the possibilities a shopping centre could commercially and socially provide without the conventional use of an anchor retail. Target’s departure from Square One Shopping Center offered a two-storey space with a hexagonal footprint, 160,000 total square feet in area, to be transformed into both a formal and informal re-demised spaces, extending the existing mall streets into a diverse and open food market (“Food District”) and more conventional and larger retail/entertainment spaces (the Rec Room). The extension of the existing public streets provided the added value of a new and dynamic mall entry on the west face of the mall. This new combination transformed the existing Target box, with its solid street-facing walls, into vibrant façades with multiple entries, windows, and patios interacting with Square One Drive, which itself was recently upgraded to a Boulevard defined by its streetscape.
The exterior presence of new tenants and the mix of tenant arrangements, some occupying both levels and the introduction of the Food District with multiple sub-tenants, offered an inviting and open dynamic to both the exterior streetscape and interior public streets.
Locale: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2012 – 2015
Area: 160,000 ft2
Architect Of Record: MMC International Architects
Concept Design: JPRA Architects
Project Manager: Mahmoud Kaddoura
Photography by Prolenz Studio Inc.(https://prolenz.ca/)
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The southwest expansion of Square One Shopping Center lay within a longer-term effort to develop the core of the city of Mississauga (Ontario, Canada) as one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. This expansion was part of three-phase development in the direct area surrounding the shopping center which includes new light rail transit (LRT) lines, new public streets and spaces aimed at fostering a more diverse and livelier downtown hub. Further densification will be mediated by surrounding mixed-use towers and podiums.
The $115,000,00 shopping center expansion itself added 160,000 square feet of retail space serving as a new fashion hub, and two unground state-of-the art parking decks (see: SQ1 SW Parking Deck). At the heart of this space was a new anchor 95,000 square foot home for Holt Renfrew, and a new glazed elliptical Rotunda (“Entrance 3”) capping the new mall street, coined “the Exchange”. A characteristic feature of both the street and rotunda is its generous use of natural light through clerestories and curtain walls, maximizing daylight throughout these spaces. These architectural gestures provided a seamless yet bold transition between the existing portions of the mall, standing as a new statement to the legacy to this new city hub.
Locale: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Project Date: 2012 – 2015
Area: 330,000 ft2
Architect Of Record: MMC International Architects
Project Manager: Mahmoud Kaddoura
Photography by Prolenz Studio Inc.(https://prolenz.ca/).
As part of the Square One Southwest Expansion (2012-2015), and work to incorporate a mall-wide parking tracking system, two new state-of-the art underground parking decks provided an additional 800 parking spots. Both levels were integrated with existing underground parking decks, with a feature elevator and escalator lobby providing a direct line to the shopping experience above. These decks also draw on the above anchor, Holt Renfrew, to bring elegant and stylistic connections between the levels.
The parking decks, situated two thirds below the southwest expansion of Square One, meant that the design of the remaining third had to contend with the redevelopment of the exposed site above: new above-ground parking and entrance roads, landscaping (both hard and soft), and large-growth vegetation. The design challenges had to address the coordination of grading and soil compaction, and the protection of all supports and penetrations of landscape elements to ensure that the below ground decks were reliably protected from moisture and frost.
3rd story addition to an existing 2 story mixed use development. The existing 5 units plaza will become one apartment building with common residential entrance and amenities. Commercial units on the street level will increase in area and be upgraded to generate an urban street look.
2 Options are proposed one modern and the other is classic European.
This is a new1800 ft² single family house located at Queen street and Coxwell.
Despite the narrow lot (20 feet), we were able to achieve a pleasant layout. The floor joists which span wall to wall with a single run stair case along the side wall allowed for a maximum utilization of the space. Using conventional construction techniques with creative detailing, the house looks modern and simple. High ceilings, Large patio doors and panoramic windows are some of its unique features.
