Archive for February, 2011

FAIRVIEW SHOPPING CENTRE – POINTE CLAIRE-QUEBEC

The original centre, the structure of which was designed by this office, was built in 1964, and served the region from west Montreal to Cornwall so successfully that it was decided to add a second level in 1981.

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POLO PARK SHOPPING CENTRE WINNIPEG

With the successful completion of the Pointe Claire Centre, the developer decided upon a vertical expansion for the Polo Park Shopping Centre, in Winnipeg. Here too, the primary criterion was to keep the centre in operation throughout…

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RADISSON HOTEL – LONDON

The hotel was built in 1972 and 1973 and was originally the Downtown London Holiday Inn.
As part of the London City Centre Project it is a reinforced concrete structure constructed over a two level subgrade parking garage.

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DELTA HOTEL HALIFAX

The 4,000 plus pieces of granite and sandstone masonry were stacked the length of a city block before cleaning and reconditioning. They have now been returned to their former position and glory.

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LONDON SQUARE GALLERIA LONDON

This shopping centre, in the core of London Ontario, occupies a site on the north and south sides of King Street.

The block on the north side of King Street is entirely new, and contains a three level subgrade reinforced concrete flat slab parking structure, below the two level north portion, of the shopping galleria, with its lineal skylight which is framed in structural steel.

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95 WELLINGTON STREET WEST – TORONTO

This distinctive twenty three storey office tower is clad with a glass and granite curtain wall. The clear spans, in the range of fifteen metres, are framed with bonded, post-tensioned, concrete beams, spanning from the perimeter columns to the central core…

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ESSO PLACE – 55 ST. CLAIR TORONTO

This precast concrete and glass clad terraced office building is located on St. Clair Avenue, west of Yonge Street in Toronto.

The reinforced concrete frame incorporates modified drop panels to frame the thirty by forty-five feet rectangular bays, and reinforced concrete transfer beams and spandrels to pick up the offset columns above, which create the set backs to frame the terraced levels.

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THE MADISON CENTRE NORTH YORK

This prestige 32 storey tall condominium tower residence is part of the Madison Centre, in the core of North York. The superstructure is composed of unbonded post-tensioned concrete one-way slabs spanning 11 metres, between supporting shear walls.

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THE ATRIUM ON BAY–TORONTO

This exciting complex of prestige offices, and a two level shopping centre, constructed in three blocks, ranging in height from eight to fourteen storeys, is arranged on the north and south sides of a central east-west atrium space. A two level subgrade parking garage occupies the entire site below the lower shopping level.

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36 TORONTO STREET–TORONTO

This project in the heart of downtown Toronto integrates an existing 12 storey historical building with a new modern 16 storey office tower. The two buildings are linked by a 12 storey glazed atrium with a skylight roof.

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