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Diamond Schmitt and MVRDV reveal design of terraced research building for University of Toronto

Dezeen·Ellen Eberhardt·about 1 month ago
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Architecture studios Diamond Schmitt, MVRDV and Two Row Architect have revealed the design for the Temerty Building at the University of Toronto , a research building informed by Indigenous design principles. The building will be located on the edge of a campus lawn at the University of Toronto St George campus and host the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Arts & Science's Department of Cell Systems Biology. Diamond Schmitt, MVRDV and Two Row Architecture have revealed designs for a research building at the University of Toronto At nine storeys, the building will contain two lower teaching floors and seven floors of labs, as well as a green roof and pocket terraces that will contain plantings associated with the four sacred medicines – cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and tobacco, according to the team. Renders show a stepped, rectangular building with softened corners. An off-white, skeletal cladding of stone wraps the building, expanding and contracting depending on placement.…

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