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Architect：Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker;NORR;Arcadis

Location：Toronto, ON, Canada; | ;View Map

Category：Subway Stations

Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker, commissioned by the Crosslinx Transit Solutions team as part of Metrolinx’s regional transportation plan - The Big Move - is proud to unveil the design framework (DX - Design Excellence) for the new Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto. With the aim of enhancing the quality of design in public spaces, the award-winning Quebec firm’s design approach is inspired by the principles of civic architecture and its integration into the urban context.

A city-building endeavour. With a projected annual ridership of 50 million, the Eglinton Crosstown LRT (ECLRT) will provide Torontonians with fast, reliable transit service on Eglinton Avenue for 19 km, with 15 underground stations, including 10 at-grade stops. The LRT is the first large-scale transit project to be delivered under Metrolinx’s regional transportation plan.

A Commitment to design quality

Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker was responsible for establishing the overarching design for the Crosslinx team (DX – Design Excellence), establishing the mobilizing vision, design signature, and kit-of-parts approach for the entire Line.

“In order to implement in-depth architectural thinking on a major urban and architectural project, our team, responsible for the mobilizing design ‘Design Excellence’ vision, together with the technical team, combined our expertise to realize this public transit project,” explains Renée Daoust, architect and urban designer, founding partner at Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker and DX Lead for the entire project.

A right to light and the celebration of kinetic movement

The DNA of the ECLRT promotes a cohesive narrative, one that is responsive to neighbourhood conditions, while sustaining Line continuity and identity. The ethos of the project uses optimization of natural light as a medium, and the celebration of kinetic movement through the system. It’s also a social and sustainability strategy, promoting more enjoyable and appealing public transportation for all.

SITU – in its natural place

The foundation of the conceptual approach rests on four guiding principles:

Simplicity: creating timeless architecture through a clear, straightforward geometry and design language;

Iconography: branding the line through a consistent use of form, materiality, and colour into a highly identifiable transit system;

Transparency: allowing daylight to filter deep into the stations;

Urbanity: attained through sensitive design strategies adapted to each urban context.

At the scale of the city, the kit-of-parts approach was developed to ensure consistent design from the scale of the city to the object. Three distinct Station typologies - pavilion, corner, and embedded - were developed to be responsive to the genius loci of each station site.

At the scale of the station, across the system, a pristine and welcoming glass box, either flat or slanted, acts as the entrance to each station. Playing with contrasts, the transparent volume is bookended by the opaque technical box, organizing public versus service functions of the Line. Pavilion settings, with the immaterial slanted glass volumes, represent the purest application of the system.

“The opaque technical building is encircled by an envelope of luminous, textured precast concrete panels, resonating with Toronto’s civic buildings,” explains partner and architect Rachel Stecker. “The precast concrete panels, inspired by the geological layers of the soil, vertically connect the street to the concourse level.” Addressing concerns for sustainability and long-term maintenance, a repeated 1.5m module rhythms the entire ensemble. This consistency allows for ease of constructability and replacement over the life of the project.

An intuitive passenger experience. As passengers descend into the station, the slanted ribs of the glass box echo their movement and create dynamic plays of light and shadow along the textured wall. Double height volumes from concourse to platform create openness within each Station, allowing travellers to clearly understand the route to the train. The empowered spaces, clad in simple white surfaces, create a museum-like ambiance showcasing public art and the movement of passengers. At platform level, the Urban Tapestry is an iconic element that celebrates people in motion. These mural-like installations run the length of the platform, animating the cast-in-place concrete walls.

A systematic use of colour. As the future orange line, the colour is applied strategically to act as a wayfinding tool from plaza to platform. Signature canopies with a tapered profile mark public entrances to each Station. The horizontal orange highlight becomes a signature element of the Line. The vibrant colour is applied to elevator shafts, furniture, and other accent items marking important and universally accessible areas and connection points within the stations, creating a seamless, intuitive passenger experience.

Integrating art and infrastructure. To democratize public art and engage the public at street level, window art displays at three stations highlight the work of emerging local artists. Within six interchange stations, eight works of Canadian and international artists are integrated directly into the Station architecture, marking the importance of these connection nodes with the existing transit network. These art pieces bring a sense of global and civic significance to the project and act as a wayfinding strategy.

Elevating the quality of design in the public realm. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT generates public and civic spaces, reduces congestion, increases urban density, and promotes sustainability, but, more importantly, illustrates the immense power of a well-defined, mobilizing project narrative. The conceptual approach became a guiding vision for the design team of more than 500 architects and engineers to follow, and provided cohesion at all stages of design and execution.

“As a city building project, ECLRT represents a unique opportunity to formalize an architectural signature, from civic scale to the finest detail, while respecting the genius loci of Toronto’s diverse and constantly evolving neighborhoods,” concludes Renée Daoust. The outcome of this multidisciplinary effort is a project seamlessly woven into its environment, aligning perfectly with its objective — to offer Torontonians a meaningful, enjoyable experience, while championing goals related to public health, ecology, and climate action by promoting quality in public transit.

Technical sheet

Design Excellence Lead

Daoust Lestage inc.*

Design team:

Renée Daoust, Rachel Stecker, Nathalie Trudel, Marie-Josée Gagnon, Réal Lestage, Eric Lizotte, Caroline Beaulieu, Lucie Bibeau, Maria Benech, Alexandre Boulianne, Dominique Morin-Robitaille, David Gilbert

Joint Venture Partners

Crosslinx Transit Solutions Design Team:

Led by the joint venture of AtkinsRéalis and Arcadis with the Design Excellence LeadDaoust Lestage inc.*

Crosslinx Transit Solutions Constructors:

Consortium of ACS Dragados, Aecon, Ellis Don andAtkinsRéalis

Architecture Firms

For all the 25 stations

Daoust Lestage inc.*: Design Excellence Lead

Arcadis: System Wide Technical Lead

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Per Station

Daoust Lestage inc.* (Fairbank Station)

DIALOG andArcadis (Forest Hill, Chaplin and Avenue Stations)

Arcadis(Mount Dennis, Keelesdale, Oakwood, Eglinton, Leaside, Laird, Science Centre and Kennedy Stations and At-grade Stops)

NORR (Caledonia, Cedarvale and Mount Pleasant Stations)

Project client

Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario

Area

19 km long (15 underground stations and 10 at-grade stops)

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