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DesignTO Festival 2024

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19-28 January 2024, Toronto, CANADA.

Canada’s largest annual design festival, the DesignTO Festival, celebrates its 14th year. It features the work of artists and designers with over 100 free exhibitions, installations, and events across the city of Toronto. The non-profit event aims to bring ‘people together to design a better future, one that is more sustainable, just, and joyful’. DesignTO

A room is a home is a playground by Ace Hotel Toronto and StudioRat Photographed by StudioRat DesignTO Festival 2024
‘A room is a home is a playground’ by Ace Hotel Toronto and StudioRat. Photographed by StudioRat
Juliet A Journey From Veronan Republic of II BY IV DesignTO Festival 2024
‘Juliet: A Journey From Verona’ celebrates the creative process of the Juliet seating collection by REPUBLIC OF II BY IV in collaboration with Suite 22
Museum of Contemporary Work DesignTO Festival 2024
The Museum of Contemporary Work is an exhibit highlighting artefacts from the recent past, present and future of work. The objects, both real and fictional, explore themes like identity, inequity, meaning and motivation.
Circular Living Lab DesignTO Festival 2024
The Circular Living Lab at 165 Niagara Street in Toronto aims to act as an incubator for circular construction and urban mining in Toronto, supporting innovative designers who are leveraging the cultural and environmental potential of the existing.

StudioAC designs a galvanised steel house inspired by local farm buildings

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Toronto-based architects Studio Architecture and Collaboration (StudioAC) have built a house clad in unfinished galvanised steel inspired by local farm buildings. The unfinished galvanised steel walls and roof reflect the changing hues of the landscape and sky. The house is situated on the Bruce Peninsula, north of Toronto, Canada. Photo Felix Michaud. StudioAC