Plant

PLANT Architect Inc. is an award-winning, Toronto-based practice that branches into architecture, landscape, and design. On projects ranging from modest residential renovations to urban renewal on a civic scale, our studio’s architects and landscape architects collaborate across disciplinary borders to reveal a site’s potential and explore its context. As designers, we heighten the experience of […]

The Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study (JICS) Lab School is an award-winning preschool-to-Grade 6 school affiliated with the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. We redesigned its compact, hemmed-in outdoor play area to support JICS’ emphasis on creative play that encourages students’ mental and physical development and enhances their connection […]

Toronto’s Kew Gardens is a bucolic Victorian park that extends south from the Beach neighbourhood’s busy retail main street (Queen Street East) to the Lake Ontario shore. The City of Toronto and the local Business Improvement Area (BIA) commissioned the Kew Gardens Streetscape to negotiate the tricky – and previously jarring – transition between retail […]

In Toronto, a pilot project aiming to improve streetcar efficiency on a busy downtown street is doing double duty as the City’s testing ground for a curb-lane parklets design initiative. The King Street Transit Pilot is testing out the viability of a ‘more streetcars, fewer cars’ approach to traffic management along a major downtown traffic […]

The aim of the Forest Hill Village North Gateway project was to create a gateway and gathering area in Suydam Park, at the north end of Forest Hill Village – a concept that emerged out of a master plan for this central Toronto neighbourhood. While the master plan envisioned a conventional landmark object, such as […]

Located in an already-populous and rapidly intensifying suburb in Canada’s largest city, East Point Park Bird Sanctuary is a uniquely valuable part of Toronto’s public realm: a surviving parcel of woodland and meadowland on a bluff high above Lake Ontario. Phase One improvements to this urban birders’ paradise include two small structures – the Viewing […]