Large scale growth for George Brown in the area. The culinary school restaurant just opened on King and the GB brown school of design opened at the beginning of September directly to the north on Richmond.
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George Brown College Downtown Campus on Adelaide
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androiduk
Senior Member
They also took the space formerly occupied by the Second Cup on Yorkville west of Bay below Flo's Diner.
T-Squared
Active Member
The addition looks great. Its nice that the wall meet right up to the street. Before, it was a mini courtyard where teachers and chefs-to-be had their cigarette breaks.
casaguy
Senior Member
So beautiful. I just realized the glass colours are trying to match the underlining on the George Brown sign... and they are matching quite successfully.
T-Squared
Active Member
^ that sign is new too.
khris
Senior Member
The George Brown Chef School opens and allows the public an insight into their student's food preparation.
The 19,000 sq.ft., three storey, in-fill addition and 47,000 sq.ft. Interior renovation of the George Brown Chef School on Toronto’s Adelaide Street East transforms a 1980’s building into a showcase for innovation in culinary education. The €12.6 million project enables the college to expand its food and hospitality programs by as much as fifty per cent.
No longer confined to rear and basement kitchens, George Brown’s student chefs are visible in a culinary performance through a two-storey glass façade that exposes four kitchen “labs†to the street. The stainless steel on the workstations and ovens is accented by brightly-colored fume hoods and walls, sparkling lighting, lush herb gardens and plasma monitors that add a kinetic effect to the architecture as they project close-up views of food preparation. The street level views into the interiors of the kitchen labs provide the ultimate branding tool for the college. When the school is closed, horizontal strips of colored glass ensure that the façade provides an interesting counterpoint to the austere visual landscape.
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junctionist
Senior Member
The use of coloured glass has made the facade refreshingly brilliant when it could have turned out to be another banal expanse of grey glass, but the stripes make it look quite cluttered and busy. The interior looks quite attractive, though, and all in all I think it turned out well. Adelaide starts to become quite dull in that area, and the building helps to liven it up.
pman
Senior Member
orange festoon
Nice contrast between the new building and the brightly festooned frontier-town hydro wires in front of it. You just don't see juxtapositions like this in other first world cities (maybe with the exception of Tokyo's suburbs).
Nice contrast between the new building and the brightly festooned frontier-town hydro wires in front of it. You just don't see juxtapositions like this in other first world cities (maybe with the exception of Tokyo's suburbs).
alklay
Senior Member
What a beautiful use of colour, both inside and out.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Earlier renderings ( on the Gow Hastings website, for instance ) indicate a building where the decorative exterior colour was kept in check, drawing the eye to the life and activity inside. Either way, though, the ground floor blinds are often drawn when I've walked past, which is a pity. The relationship between the addition and the earlier, mid-1980s building suggests one-upmanship rather than symbiosis - the two don't look related, though they're reasonably well linked on the inside and the atrium is a focus of activity that ties the place together on all floors.