Suulin Architects is an emerging practice with an impressive back story. When its future principals met in New York City, Amy Lin was an associate working for Polshek Partnership (now Ennead Architects) on projects including the Clinton Library; James Chavel was at Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects working on the Phoenix Art Museum addition. Chavel wanted to return to his home in Toronto?together with Lin. Both had connections to Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe: Chavel had been her teaching assistant at the University of Toronto and Shim had been Lin?s thesis reviewer at Harvard. They eventually served as co-project architects on Shim-Sutcliffe?s Sisters of St. Joseph residence/healthcare centre for the order?s elderly nuns. The project received a 2014 Governor General?s Medal in Architecture, and that same year, Lin and Chavel went out on their own, forming Suulin Architects. Office 31 is a gut renovation and addition to an existing warehouse building. Instead of the outdoor access to tenant spaces typical of surrounding buildings, the architects convinced the owner to create a brightly daylit shared atrium space. Photo by Anton Kisselgoff
Office 31 is a gut renovation and addition to an existing warehouse building. Instead of the outdoor access to tenant spaces typical of surrounding buildings, the architects convinced the owner to create a brightly daylit shared atrium space. Photo by Anton Kisselgoff
Office 31 is a gut renovation and addition to an existing warehouse...