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Too fast, too furious? Local residents want the city to slow speeding traffic on Avenue Road by turning part of it into a park

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A pie-in-the-sky plan for Toronto’s Main Square

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By admin Posted on July 4, 2019 Posted in

Yonge-Dundas Square is Toronto’s last stand for public space

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By admin Posted on January 27, 2017 Posted in

Destination: Victoria Park station?

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By admin Posted on January 12, 2017 Posted in

Metrolinx project sparks calls for new vision at the rail’s edge

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By admin Posted on February 5, 2015 Posted in

Spurring Cooksville revitalization: Point Tower Proposed

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By admin Posted on February 4, 2015 Posted in

Metrolinx’s Berlin Wall

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By admin Posted on October 10, 2013 Posted in

In Toronto condo land, a park designed to slow you down

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By admin Posted on October 10, 2013 Posted in

Metrolinx’s ‘noise walls’ have no place in Toronto

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By admin Posted on September 20, 2013 Posted in

TTC’s Victoria Park station lauded for design

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By admin Posted on September 12, 2013 Posted in

Metrolinx’s ‘huge’ sound walls draw citizen protest — and ideas for a greener alternative

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By admin Posted on August 22, 2013 Posted in

How I learned to stop worrying and love Yonge-Dundas Square

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By admin Posted on August 7, 2013 Posted in

“Yonge-Dundas Square has helped bring Toronto into 21st century”

For the architects who designed the square, Kim Storey and James Brown, the project was a balancing act, one they pulled off brilliantly... Though organizers have allowed the square to be filled with clutter, much of it corporate, the space still works.
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Kingston Park Revitalization Project earns provincial award

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A Toronto subway station redesign links neighbourhood and nature

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Kingston Park earns Communities in Bloom award

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By admin Posted on October 22, 2011 Posted in

Kingston Park a wet, glistening jewel for families

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Trail breathes life into ‘dead zone’

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By admin Posted on October 30, 2009 Posted in

Hip and sophisticated? Say hello to the new T.O.

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By admin Posted on June 26, 2008 Posted in

Long-term vision for King’s Navy Yard Park in Amherstburg is grand

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By admin Posted on January 30, 2007 Posted in

New Bloor: Nicer to Walk, Harder to Park

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By admin Posted on May 24, 2006 Posted in

At times, familiarity breeds content

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By admin Posted on August 3, 2003 Posted in

Public must push limits, make Dundas Square theirs

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By admin Posted on June 12, 2003 Posted in

Square’s beauty lies in public life it will inspire

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By admin Posted on May 31, 2003 Posted in

Toronto gets hip to new square

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By admin Posted on May 30, 2003 Posted in

New park to bridge King W. condo projects

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By admin Posted on March 29, 2003 Posted in

King West meets Zen in design of new park

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By admin Posted on March 21, 2003 Posted in

Toronto march boosts Dundas Square

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By admin Posted on February 16, 2003 Posted in

‘A European Space’

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By admin Posted on January 18, 2003 Posted in

Dundas Square already inspiring

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By admin Posted on March 28, 2002 Posted in

Dundas Square coming to life

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By admin Posted on March 18, 2002 Posted in

Residents to raise funds for trees and wider walkway

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By admin Posted on October 3, 2001 Posted in

Architects devise calm eye in urban storm

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By admin Posted on January 2, 1999 Posted in

Doing the right thing, the right way: Dundas Square project off to a great start

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By admin Posted on December 5, 1998 Posted in

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brownandstorey

A Toronto-based office of architects, landscape architects, and urban designers. We help make modern cities livable.

This week at Brown and Storey Architects, we celeb This week at Brown and Storey Architects, we celebrate National Volunteer Week and Earth Day (April 22)! One of our staff landscape architects, Lisa Mactaggart, volunteered with @treesforguelph to help plant 429 native trees and shrubs – including white spruce, white pine, tamarack, bur oak, sugar maple, white oak, nannyberry, red osier dogwood, and more.

Fostering community, working together, and initiating mini forest ecosystems where birds, plants, and animals can thrive will always be important to us.

Shout-out to the @cityofguelph Natural Areas Stewardship group for their support in facilitating these events.

Happy National Volunteer Week, and happy (belated) Earth Day!
A recent Toronto Star article by Victoria Gibson h A recent Toronto Star article by Victoria Gibson highlights the proposed transformation of Scarborough’s Golden Mile - A historically industrial corridor now connected to the city core via the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

Once envisioned as a major hub for affordable housing, the project is now on hold amid a cooling real estate market.

At Brown and Storey Architects, we’ve been long, and closely engaged with the Golden Mile. It’s a site layered with history - from the WWII-era “Bomb Girls” to its evolution from farmland to factories to today’s big-box landscape.

Our research asks: what comes next?

Our proposal reimagines the district with increased density and a renewed connection to nature - introducing a continuous green public realm that weaves through the site, bringing open space, amenities, and life back into an area dominated by hardscape.

Rather than repeating the fragmented patterns of suburban growth, this proposal positions the Golden Mile as a prototype for rethinking large-scale suburban intensification-balancing climate resilience, housing demand, economic productivity, and meaningful public space.

The pause in development isn’t just a delay - it’s a chance to rethink, refine, and reimagine.

🔗 Read the article by Victoria Gibson: https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/how-torontos-condo-crash-upended-a-75-tower-plan-for-golden-mile/article_eed67f96-98e7-4f73-bcb7-b02cb6ee762c.html

For more on our proposal for The New Golden Mile, visit the link in bio.
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 #UrbanDesign #AffordableHousing #Scarborough #GoldenMile  #MasseyCreek
Adaptive reuse in action. In a climate crisis, ev Adaptive reuse in action.

In a climate crisis, every material choice matters. The concrete we don’t quarry, the timber we don’t harvest, the earth we don’t move - these are acts of climate responsibility.

What if we told you that the concrete pathway below your feet used to be a swimming pool? Or that the pavilions overhead came from trees lost to disease?

At Kingston Park in Chatham, we designed with what already existed:

Demolished swimming pool concrete ➡️ fragmented and repurposed as ceremonial pathways (avoiding virgin aggregate extraction + landfill waste). 

Ash trees lost to Emerald Ash Borer ➡️ reclaimed timber for park pavilions (reducing demand for new lumber production). 

Beloved toboggan hill ➡️ integrated into circulation (eliminating unnecessary earthwork). 

Water infrastructure ➡️ completely recirculating UV filtration system (conserving water in a changing climate)

The most sustainable material is the one you already have. The most meaningful design honours what came before while reducing environmental impact.

In our current climate reality, adaptive reuse isn’t just thoughtful - it’s essential. Every project is a chance to work with what exists, minimize extraction, and prove that constraint breeds creativity.

This 7-hectare transformation shows that climate action and beautiful public space aren’t opposing goals - they’re the same work.

For more on Kingston Park Revitalization, visit the link in bio.

Water feature play area designed by: Dan Euser WaterArchitecture Inc.

#KingstonPark #LandscapeArchitecture #PublicSpace #adaptivereuse
What does a public washroom owe the city? We thin What does a public washroom owe the city?

We think: more than it’s ever been asked to give.

Our entry for the TO the Loo Toronto public washroom competition wasn’t selected, but the thinking behind it - about dignity, light, disidentification, and what public space can genuinely be - feels too important to leave in a drawer.

Our project was a refusal to treat the washroom as an isolated object of shame, and instead asked: what if it were a gateway? A courtyard-maker? A catalyst for connection between housing, parks, and the street?

What if going to the loo became a genuinely surprising, beautiful, light-filled experience?

The ideas live on. Swipe to see them.

To see the full vision, and the thinking behind it, visit the link in bio.

#Architecture #UrbanDesign #Toronto #publicspace #parkette
From the 2004 archives... Before intensification From the 2004 archives...

Before intensification became a buzzword, we were asking a simpler question on St. Clair Avenue West: what if parking could pay for a piazza?

The Piazzetta Santa Chiara was a prototype we developed for the City of Toronto - a half-below-grade parking structure whose rooftop became a public square. Shaded seating, event space, and a land-bridge connecting to the schoolyard next door. The ground plane, used twice.

It's an idea that still holds up. 

Learn more about the Piazzetta at the link in bio.

Project: Capital Design Strategy, St. Clair Avenue West
Client: City of Toronto, Dept. of Economic Development, Culture and Tourism
Collaborator: Richard Gilbert
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 #Streetscapes #FromTheArchives #UrbanDesign #Toronto #StClairWest #PublicSpace #LandscapeArchitecture #CorsoItalia #StreetscapeDesign #Architecture #parksandrec #publicrealm #parks #urbanism
Today we had the opportunity to attend the Blessin Today we had the opportunity to attend the Blessing of the Villa Charities Italian Canadian Immigrant Tribute Installation where His Eminence, Frank Cardinal Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto, came to the Columbus Centre to bless the Immigrant Tribute donor name plaques.

BSA is proud and honoured to have had the opportunity to work on this meaningful project in collaboration with @villa_charities , which pays tribute to the legacy of Italian Canadian immigrants.
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#VCITributeProject #PublicPlaza #Urbanism #TorontoArchitecture #ArchitectureDesign #UrbanDesign #CulturalDesign #Landscapes #HonourYourFamily #ShareYourImmigrationStory
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