Like Design by ARK
The Toronto based architecture firm ARK has been awarded recognition and prizes for their Uja Federation Community Complex. The complex has been designed to unite and create synergies between a broad array of community services, including child & health care, sports & recreation, arts & culture, and community & spirituality. All of this has been integrated in a transparent 34 000 square meter, three storey complex.
- We felt that the goal of the architecture was to make meaningful connections between the diverse uses. Transparency was the solution: views and vistas between the building and the surrounding neighbourhood, between varying community groups build bonds and create a sense of community that crosses perceived boundaries of age, race or gender...
