The Academic Wood Tower is a fifteen-storey classroom and office building for the University of Toronto. At eighty meters in height, it will be the tallest timber building in North America. Located adjacent to Bloor Street in the heart of the University of Toronto's St. George Campus, the Academic Wood Tower is situated in a precinct of architecturally-signifi-cant buildings. It is built atop the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport, a research and recreational facility also designed by Patkau + MJMA, which was built to accommodate a lobby, foundation, and core for the tower. To the north, the tower also connects to the historic building housing the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Links between the three buildings and the street are key sites of architectural intensity and social gathering: catching glimpses of a basketball game while entering the shared lobby, climbing the feature stair toward a framed view of the Munk Building's former meteorological tower, finding surprising interconnections at double-height overlooks, and relaxing on the roof terrace atop the Goldring Centre between classes. At the ground floor, a two-sided lobby and associated site development provide a direct link through the building, connecting major pedestrian thoroughfares on campus.
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