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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Toronto, Ontario, Canadaen_US
dc.coverage.temporal2000 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMayne, Thomen_US
dc.creatorMorphosisen_US
dc.date2000en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-18T17:19:10Z
dc.date.available2013-03-18T17:19:10Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.identifier200383en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1241en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/108145
dc.descriptionTight view along the south elevation; Graduate House at the University of Toronto is a student residence specifically for graduate students. The new facility is located on the western edge of the campus, on the north-east corner of Spadina Avenue and Harbord Street (address 60 Harbord St, Toronto, ON, M5S 3L1), near the Harbord Street streetcar stop. The building, with its large sign, marks the main western entrance to the campus. "Completed in November 2000, Graduate House was designed by Thom Maine [sic] and his team at Morphosis Architectural Firm, in conjunction with Toronto architect Stephen Teeple and his firm Teeple Architects Inc. This team won the university's design contest in 1998, no small feat given the university's budgetary constraints and the considerable demands and restrictions placed on the design by the city. The design for Graduate House earned the team a number of awards, including the Progressive Architecture Award, the Canadian Architecture Award, and the American Institure of Architects Award. Thom Maine [sic] has since won the Pritzker Prize, the top award in Architecture, for his design career. The deconstructionist design of Graduate House combines the heaviness of concrete and metal with the lightness of glass. Though it is not readily apparent from the street, Graduate House's exterior is made up of nearly 70% glass. Ribbon windows line the street-side faces, and the two-story glass and metal cantilever acts as both sign and western gate for the university." Source: University of Toronto [website]; http://www.utoronto.ca/ (accessed 2/3/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumglass; concrete; steelen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectDeconstructivisten_US
dc.subjectTwenty-first centuryen_US
dc.titleUniversity of Toronto Graduate Houseen_US
dc.title.alternativeGraduate Houseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-C-T-UTO-B4en_US
vra.culturalContextCanadianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypedormitory (building)en_US
vra.worktypeapartment houseen_US
dc.contributor.displayMorphosis Architects (American architectural firm, founded 1975); Thom Mayne (American architect, born 1944)en_US


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