Case Method: McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building, York University, Toronto, Ontario
The building curves around a landscaped courtyard.
PROJECT McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building, York University, Toronto, Ontario
ARCHITECT Baird Sampson Neuert Architects
PHOTOS Tom Arban
?A great-performing piece of architecture can also be a great piece of architecture.? The architect Jon Neuert learned this principle from the late Barry Sampson, his partner at Toronto-based Baird Sampson Neuert Architects. He repeats it to me as we stand outside a project that embodies the ideal: The Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building at York University?s Schulich School of Business.
Completed by Baird Sampson Neuert just before the pandemic, the structure delivers remarkable energy performance along with spaces conducive to socializing and collaborative work. ?The fundamental idea of the building,? Neuert says, ?was to intertwine sociability and environmental sustainability into an integrated whole.? It delivers, through an architecture that is thoughtful and remarkably self-effacing. The 6,100-square-metre building is essentially V-shaped in plan, clad with Algonquin limestone at ground level and cement board above. One wing looks north to the York campus?s main street, and the other southeast to a woodlot; between is a courtyard. At the vertex stands a three-storey atrium, capped by the project?s visual centerpiece: a 16-metre solar chimney, made from a slab of concrete encapsulated by a rectangular glass prism.
In the summer, the stack effect caus...
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