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Hill & Dale Mixed-Use Development in Toronto
29 Nov 2020
Hill & Dale Building
Architects: Studio JCI
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Award-winning architecture firm Studio JCI recently completed Hill & Dale, a 75,000-square-foot mixed-use development at the corner of Yonge and Roxborough Street in Toronto?s prestigious Rosedale neighbourhood. The eye-catching project accommodates retail, offices and residences, transforming a nondescript three-storey office block into a dynamic new six-storey building.

Hill & Dale not only reflects a global trend in the design and construction industry, which favours working with existing structures as opposed to building new, but it also takes a highly creative approach to City of Toronto?s mid-rise guidelines, opting for a form that is far more varied than many of the cookie-cutter mid-rise developments in the city.
Located steps away from the Rosedale subway station, the site demanded intensification while still maintaining the intimate scale of storefronts and cafés along this stretch of Yonge Street. Indeed, the resulting design is highly sensitive to its surroundings. Along the primary street frontage, the façade?s rhythmic form of projecting bays breaks up the block, echoing Yonge Street?s fine-grained storefronts. Originally, the existing building was set 20 feet back from the sidewalk, but the renovation pulled its th...