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A Kiln Becomes an Events Space at Evergreen Brickworks

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A 5,000-Square-Metre Retrofit Brings New Life

Brick factory, informal rave venue, cultural and ecological hub: Evergreen Brick Works undergoes its next evolution with a 5,000-square-metre retrofit by LGA Architectural Partners.

Kiln Evergreen Brickworks, rendering multi-purpose building

The multi-purpose building will host workshops and events, as well as providing gallery space.

Once converted, the kiln building will be an enclosed, all-season space for galleries, classrooms and events, with an impressive 81-metre wall of sliding glass to maintain the beloved space’s open-air atmosphere.

In this designated heritage building, relics of the past – catwalks, rail lines and graffiti – will remain.

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The Bentway’s playful installation of 50 trees in shopping carts shines a light on climate resilience and green equity

In a city grappling with rising temperatures, accelerated development and increasing inequity in green space accessibility, Moving Forest arrives not as a solution, but as an invitation to rethink our relationship with nature. Designed by NL Architects as a part of The Bentway’s Sun/Shade exhibition, this outlandish yet purposeful installation transforms a fleet of 50 shopping carts into mobile vessels for native trees—red maples, silver maples, sugar maples and autumn blaze—that roll through some of Toronto’s most sun-scorched plazas, creating impromptu oases of shade and community.

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