{"id":14025,"date":"2023-03-10T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T23:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/createto-and-tolive-announce-winning-submission-for-st-lawrence-centre-design-competition\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T23:25:23","slug":"createto-and-tolive-announce-winning-submission-for-st-lawrence-centre-design-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/createto-and-tolive-announce-winning-submission-for-st-lawrence-centre-design-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"CreateTO and TOLive Announce Winning Submission for St Lawrence Centre Design Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earning themselves another esteemed nod from the Toronto design community, Hariri Pontarini Architects<\/a> have been announced as the winners of the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts<\/a> design competition, for their proposal designed in collaboration with LMN Architects<\/a>, Tawaw Collective<\/a>, Smoke Architecture<\/a>, and SLA<\/a>. Their submission, framed around the theme of \u2018transparence\u2019, was one of five designs shortlisted for the redevelopment of the aging theatre centre, a project initiated by the partnership of CreateTO<\/a> and TOLive to reinvigorate the brutalist building in a way that meets the needs of the contemporary arts community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cInternational competitions like this showcase design excellence and the range of ideas and concepts presented by the shortlisted teams demonstrate a passion and commitment to city building and highlight the potential to create exciting civic spaces,\u201d said Vic Gupta, CEO of CreateTO. \u201cThe proposal led by Hariri Pontarini Architects is an innovative design for the heart of the St Lawrence neighbourhood that envisions new state-of-the-art spaces where artists and the community can come together to create, perform, and share ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking south at the winning design for the redevelopment of the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts, image courtesy of Hariri Pontarini, LMN Architects, Tawaw Collective, Smoke Architecture, and SLA<\/span><\/p>\n

The announcement comes just three days after the five shortlisted proposals were presented to the jury at a community meeting at the St Lawrence Centre; the meeting was well attended by the public with roughly 900 observers attending the hybrid event. In a press release published by CreateTO earlier today, the jury\u2019s decision making process was described as follows:<\/p>\n

The seven-member jury, made up of leaders in the fields of culture, planning, urban design, architecture, Indigenous design, and landscape architecture, based its selection on the following:\u00a0<\/p>\n