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residential and commercial use buildings, it is adjacent to a rail corridor and lies on three public transit routes. It is a case-study site in a case-study neighborhood for pro-active city planning. The infill of areas like ours better knits them with adjacent neighborhoods, and builds a more coherent public realm based on multivalent use. In the third instance, the project more formally moves the studio beyond architecture into the realm of development and construction; we designed it, and arranged its financing and construction. It tests an idea of programme and density that has increasing currency but is without many contemporary purpose- built models. It is the kind of development that bridges a least a couple of urban gaps: low- to high-rise, work to home. If trends towards the decentralisation of the workplace continue, so will the number of workers living and working at home continue to rise. The city is seeing clearly in encouraging this kind of development. It is a building type that we will build again. g
Andre D’Elia and Meg Graham head up super kül inc. architect, which Andre established in 2002. Projects currently in the office in - clude a school, several houses and a master plan. Meg, who joined the studio in 2005, also teaches in the M.Arch program at the Univer-
sity of Toronto. www.superkul.ca
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