The architectural proposal organizes new construction and heritage structures into a cohesive campus, establishing visual and physical connections between the city and Lake Ontario. By consolidating the five existing Pods, the Cinesphere, and the new building into a unified spatial framework, the design reinforces the waterfront's civic identity while reinterpreting Ontario Place's original ambition as a landscape for public learning, innovation, and recreation.
The challenge of creating coherence within a 1,260-square-foot duplex carved from an 1848 Neo-Grec brownstone lies not in preservation alone, but in discovering parallel frameworks across disparate architectural traditions. Bespoke Only approached this Clinton Hill Duplex by identifying a shared language between Brooklyn's late 19th-century architectural details and the domestic interiors of Shanghai during the same period - an era when both cities were grappling with modernity while maintaining ties to craft traditions.