Project:	North Toronto Station (LCBO)
Location:	Toronto, Canada
Cost:	$13 000 000 (CAD)
Date:	Completed 2003
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Canadian Pacific Railway constructed this Neo Classical Beaux Arts railway station on their mid-Toronto line in 1915. The station’s design for the clock tower borrowed heavily from the campanile of St Marks in Venice. Closed as a station in the mid 1920s, the site was converted to an LCBO and Brewers Retail Outlet after the Second World War.

The station was robustly constructed of a base of concrete and steel and clad with Tindle limestone from Winnipeg. The main waiting room was lined with high quality materials, marble and decorative plaster.

Our assignment had numerous undertakings that included the following: a condition review of the building; work with City Heritage on preservation strategies and a site easement; work with the owner and prime tenant on designs for a new interior layout; building additions under the bridge and to the east; a new site plan including landscape and parking areas and implement the project. All work had to be sensitive to the complex historic situation and status.

This was a very complicated assignment which included multiple 3D property lines, CP Rail, the Toronto Transit Commission, a sophisticated retail tenant (the Liquor Control Board of Ontario), adjacent condominium land owners, a public art process for the development of an adjacent urban square and full city approvals.

This project was completed in February 2003.