As you walk along queen street west which is a relatively old looking street in the heart of Toronto you are bound to look up one of the intersections and have a shock, the OCAD (The Ontario College of Art and Design) building is a huge black and white cube on 26m coloured stilts. The first time I stumbled upon the building I fell in love with it, just the idea of having the extension of the old building hovering above it on stilts was completely new. The building was designed by Aslop Architects in 2004. The idea was to raise the new extension above the surrounding buildings to allow natural light into the studios that fill the two story cube without being too intrusive into the skyline of the area. The building is a talking point that compliments the epicenter of Toronto's design industry. With such a radical building design there are bound to be people who love it and people who hate it, I fall into the former category. But whether you love it or hate it you have to agree that the idea and execution of the building is fitting for the building that holds Toronto's new creative minds.
As you walk along queen street west which is a relatively old looking street in the heart of Toronto you are bound to look up one of the intersections and have a shock, the OCAD (The Ontario College of Art and Design) building is a huge black and white cube on 26m coloured stilts. The first time I stumbled upon the building I fell in love with it, just the idea of having the extension of the old building hovering above it on stilts was completely new. The building was designed by Aslop Architects in 2004. The idea was to raise the new extension above the surrounding buildings to allow natural light into the studios that fill the two story cube without being too intrusive into the skyline of the area. The building is a talking point that compliments the epicenter of Toronto's design industry. With such a radical building design there are bound to be people who love it and people who hate it, I fall into the former category. But whether you love it or hate it you have to agree that the idea and execution of the building is fitting for the building that holds Toronto's new creative minds.
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