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The Toronto firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg is one of the few firms in North America to design and deliver large buildings at a consistently high level of quality. This academic project for the University of Toronto is a case in point: it fits a large bulk of research and event space into a complex inner-city campus - partly by going below ground in a bravura piece of spatial manipulation. The tailored facade of grey glass and zinc panels reflects KPMB's taste for subtle manipulation of materials, while a grand stair inside provides social space, circulation and poetry in one stroke. Photography: Tom Arban
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