The many laneways and courtyard spaces in the Financial District have the potential to be transformed into a new, car-free public realm, welcoming to new businesses and public life. The interior laneway and courtyard spaces within the block bounded by …
On Sunday, May 7th, 2023, members of Brown and Storey Architects, the Avenue Road Safety Coalition, the Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition, the Thorncliffe Park Autism Support Network, and members of Wayne Scott’s family gathered at the corner of …
The possibilities of Main Square is a beginning point for the Danforth community to look at a broader set of linkages and a constellation of elements – local retail, employment, housing, transit / mobility connections, parks access, reactivation of public …
In our Dufferin Grove Community Project completed over twenty years ago, we identified Dufferin Grove as a city park in need of re-thinking. Given the last two years of the pandemic, parks and park users have become more entwined in …
As a sub-consultant to Associated Engineering, BSA provided a Heritage Impact Assessment for the Rosehill Reservoir site, one of Toronto’s first parks and later reservoir. This work informed subsequent landscape and architectural consultant services, including a sensitive landscape design and …
Proposed as a solution to a small school parking lot on St. Clair West a number of years ago, the Santa Chiara Piazzetta still has a certain relevance given the shortage of parks and public spaces in ever-densifying neighbourhoods, and …
Victoria Park Avenue, Pharmacy Avenue, and Dawes Road all cross through an open creek system— Taylor-Massey Creek. Both Pharmacy and Victoria Park have intermittent zones of high-rise residential complexes fronting green space adjacent the Bloor-Danforth subway line. These high-density …
Brown and Storey Architects work with a range of community groups and organizations that enable us to create solutions aimed at community needs. As part of the City of Toronto’s Oakwood-St. Clair Parkland Study, several community organizations identified Roseneath …
The current state of Charles H. Hiscott Bridge, with four lanes of traffic and two very narrow sidewalks less than the city standard width of 2.1m, is dangerous and leaves no room for social distancing. Reports notwithstanding from transportation …
Our approach to the challenge of public electric car charging infrastructure along major highways treats the travelers as agential activators, engaging with technology, media, culture, and landscape. As much as the structures are architectural, they are apparatuses and instruments that …
This study proposes a re-imagining of Avenue Road to return it to its prominent role in the city’s public realm by reducing six lanes of speeding traffic to four and creating new public space. This new space would increase the …
Between 1932 and 1933, Ukraine suffered a famine affecting the major grain-producing areas in the region. The famine, known as the Holodomor, was a result of forced collectivization, a policy that was deliberately planned and executed by the Soviet regime …
Brown + Storey Architects Inc. have been involved in the research of housing types that intensify the yellowbelt neighbourhoods along Toronto’s north-south transit connected Avenues. This research is intended to explore opportunities to redevelop underutilized neighbourhoods and challenge the viability …
The City of Belleville has embarked on a forward-looking project to update the infrastructure of their historic downtown core. The project, which is upgrading and replacing both sub-surface utilities and the public infrastructure of the city’s downtown streets and open …
In 2017, the Borough of Saint-Laurent undertook an integrative, innovative competition to create biodiversity corridors. Creating these corridors will connect the natural areas and other green spaces currently fragmented by development, and eventually give citizens access to historic, educational and …
Phase 1 of the West Toronto Railpath has been recognized with a 2013 Regional Honour Award of Excellence by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. The award, conferred to Scott Torrance Landscape Architect Inc., is just the latest in a …
