安大略省高校联盟滨水办公室丨加拿大多伦多丨Gow Hastings Architects

Workspace

Colleges Ontario Waterfront Offices

This interior fit-up relocates the Colleges Ontario heads offices to Queens Quay East on Toronto's waterfront. The optimized design offers an open yet organized office environment with views onto Lake Ontario.

Workspace

Colleges Ontario Waterfront Offices

Completion Date

2019

Location

Toronto, Canada

Size

8,840 sq ft

Program

Offices, Meeting Rooms, Lounge, Storage Areas, Reception, Kitchenette

Design Team

Valerie Gow

Jim Burkitt

Photography

Tom Arban

Description

This interior fit-up relocates the Colleges Ontario heads offices to Queens Quay East on Toronto's waterfront. The elevated design offers an open yet organized office environment with views onto Lake Ontario.

A new layout increases the efficiency and functionality of the floorplan by optimizing the number of equally-sized offices that are incorporated into the space. The completed design accommodates 33 private offices, two meeting rooms, two kitchens, three cafeteria rooms, a lounge, and storage areas.

While executive offices are located along the perimeter, the central core is dedicated to open offices and work spaces. Each office is fixed with laminated glass to ensure that these work spaces feel separate and private, yet retain natural light. Alternating carpet and paint colours further delineate the offices, while acoustic treatment prevents significant sound transfer between individual work areas and meeting rooms.

The design incorporates a variety of features that allow for flexibility of use. In the large meeting room, an operable partition wall can be used as a whiteboard for capturing notes and ideas, or shifted to segment the space into two separate rooms. A communal kitchen table acts as gathering place for employees enjoying lunch, or as an impromptu meeting spot.

In the reception and lounge, staff and visitors are greeted with a wood frame wall and abstract tiles that showcase the Colleges Ontario logo.