Our sister site UrbanToronto.ca recently toured the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design, which features a contemporary extension to the 1875-built Knox College building.

The old Knox College, image by Jack Landau

"It already feels a lot bigger." Standing at the west entrance of the nearly completed architectural showpiece, that's how Dean Richard Sommer of the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design describes the faculty's new digs. It's not just the expanded building that the Dean is referring to, but the whole of Spadina Crescent itself, which is already beginning to seem more integrated with the city around it. And it's already beginning to feel like a bigger part of the city's cultural — and physical — landscape.

Designed by acclaimed Boston-based architecture firm NADAAA in partnership with Toronto's Adamson Associates, the Daniels Faculty's new home will welcome its first students in September. Faculty, meanwhile, are "already camping out" in much of the space, Dean Sommer explains, as the library's first books hit the shelves and the final interior finishes take shape. 

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