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"This exploration of a housing typology is an excellent response to issues of climate change, life-work balance, housing security, urban form, and inflation."

PROJECT Ace Hotel, Toronto, Ontario ARCHITECT Shim-Sutcliffe Architects TEXT Bill Curran PHOTOS Scott Norsworthy, unless otherwise noted Hotels matter…

"More projects are needed that fill the “missing middle” and bring increased density to downtown neighbourhoods in the city; this project takes an…

" It’s an elegant building rendered with a deft architectural hand, that is working with an iconic piece of Toronto architecture in a lovely way."

"There is more to the project than just a façade: the units are well connected vertically and light enters the spaces in a dynamic way."

"It imagines how you could squeeze three additional dwelling units on a very small, tight site."

"The proportions and connections are impeccable, and the design offers a surprising and unexpected solution to the need to integrate the house into the typology…

Developed as alternatives to rooming houses, Pocket Suites include eight autonomous units, each with separate entrances.

In New York, Vancouver and Saskatoon, architects are taking on a triple-bottom-line strategy, producing buildings and public spaces with economic, environmental…