The Arbour, designed by Toronto's Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects, is a groundbreaking timber tower with Fast + Epp collaborating as structural engineer. (Courtesy Moriyama & ...

The curvilinear form of the building is constructed from a framework of prefabricated glulam beams. The beams are supported on a lightweight steel structure below the first-floor slab, which itself is ...

What’s innovative is the way they managed to keep the ring beam very modest,’ says Hopkins Architects senior partner Mike Taylor. ‘Lots of these structures have enormous ring beams. This is teeny.’ ...