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| Dia | |
| DEVELOPER | TAS DesignBuild |
| ARCHITECT | Core Architects Inc |
| LANDSCAPE | PD3 Workshop |
| GEN. CONTRACTOR | Morbuild Inc. |
| DEVELOPER'S COMMENTS: This 147,000 sq. ft. project provides 156 residential units in a rapidly changing post-WWII suburb of predominantly single-family homes at the edge of the city. Dia is intended to resemble a small community or precinct, offering many choices for living including suites and lofts in a podium and an 18-storey tower as well as grade-related two-storey townhouses. The consequent form appropriately mixes low-rise, mid-rise and hi-rise masses on one block, creating a microcosm of the ideal mixed community of which it is a part. The architecture of this project is based on intensive research of the site as both a physical and social construct. The architectural investigation went well beyond the requisite inventory of the immediately apprehendable physicality of the area, that is to say the orderliness of streets and blocks and the characteristics of existing buildings. Instead, inspiration for the design was drawn equally from consideration of the unique social ecology of this transitional community as well as context and program. |
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