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Bjarke Ingel’s firm has unveiled designs for a major residential development in downtown Toronto, reminiscent of the experimental housing complex built by Moshe Sadfie in the 1960s.
Proposed for a site between King Street West and Wellington Street, the BIG-designed development includes 500 apartments contained within a pixelated-looking block that rises and falls to create five peaks.
It is this modular arrangement that gives the design a similar aesthetic to Safdie’s Habitat 67 – the three-dimensional landscape of 354 stacked concrete « boxes » built for the Montreal Expo of 1967.
