20 Years of Superkül

On Saturday, September 24, we celebrated Superkül’s 20th anniversary in our newly renovated office space among friends and collaborators. To honour this milestone, we put together a short film about the firm that features interviews with Meg, Andre, and Shea as well as cherished colleagues and clients. Watch the film here.

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Breaking Ground at Daniels on Parliament

The Daniels Corporation broke ground on their newest condominium residence in the Regent Park revitalization, Daniels on Parliament, on Thursday, September 22. Designed by Superkül, this project represents the final development within the third phase of the Regent Park revitalization and will feature two towers — one at 25 and the other at 10 storeys…

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Robarts Library Fourth Floor Reading Room Reopens

Our elegant and accessible makeover of the Fourth Floor Reading Room at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library is complete! The space reopened to students, staff, and researchers on September 6, 2022, just in time for the start of the new school year.  Catch the renovated space in President Meric Gertler’s back-to-school address to U…

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Introducing Brightwater Towns

Introducing Brightwater Towns: a series of 106 Superkül-designed homes coming to Mississauga’s Port Credit area. These intimately-scaled units are the latest addition to Brightwater, a 72-acre master-planned development that, according to the Toronto Star, “will set the benchmark for future waterfront community design across Canada and beyond.” “When we saw the master plan and location…

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Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Awards

We’re thrilled to announce that we have received two Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Awards for Memory Labs and Woodhouse! Many thanks to Canadian Interiors and the 2020 Jury for this wonderful recognition, which we share with our clients and collaborators. Congratulations to our clients and our team – and to all of this year’s…

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OAA Awards of Design Excellence Finalists

Superkül is proud to announce that it has been shortlisted – twice! – in the 2020 Ontario Association of Architects’ Awards of Excellence program. Two of the firm’s residential projects – Woodhouse and What Remains to be Seen – were chosen as part of a select group of 20 finalists. Juried by a panel of…

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Superkül named Designer of the Year!

Superkül is delighted to announce that we have been selected as 2020 Designer of the Year by Designlines magazine. The award recognizes the firm’s design acumen, and the accompanying article in Issue No. 1, 2020 of the magazine describes Superkül as “a firm with superpowers [that] tackles every type of project with style and grace.”…

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Firm Leadership Update

Superkül is pleased to announce the promotions of Kevin James, Shea Gallagher and Will Elsworthy to the role of Associate. Kevin, Shea and Will join the firm’s leadership team alongside Associate Ian Douglas and Principals Meg Graham and Andre D’Elia. Together, this group leads the practice in pursuing and delivering projects to the highest level…

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Junction House Breaks Ground!

We are thrilled to announce that Junction House broke ground this past weekend! Working with Slate, dialogue38, Globizen and Paul Johnston has been an incredible experience so far and we can’t wait to see our design begin to be realized. A huge congratulations to the entire project team!

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Andre D’Elia to Present at Active House Symposium 2019

On Tuesday, September 17, 2019, Superkül principal Andre D’Elia is participating in a panel interview at the 7th Active House Symposium, entitled ‘Building Healthy, Living Healthy: A New Era in Sustainable Building Design’. This event follows the groundbreaking success of Great Gulf Homes Active Houses 1 and 2, single-family residences in the suburban communities of…

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Missing Mid-Rise: Oben Flats Castlefield Design District

The missing mid-rise: “neighbourly, pedestrian-friendly and a breath of fresh air”. Our project for Oben Flats has been featured in Designlines for contributing to the much needed mid-rise scale of development within Toronto’s rapidly changing urban fabric. Read more about the project and several others here.

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Compass House featured in the Spring issue of In the Hills magazine

We’re delighted that Compass House has been given a seven-page spread in the Spring issue of In the Hills, a magazine dedicated to country living in the Headwaters region of Ontario. Writer Tralee Pearce interviews Meg Graham and the proud owners of this country home, presenting an engaging account of how this highly sustainable and award-winning “Mulmur Masterpiece”…

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House in a Grove appears in Designlines’ landscape lookbook

House in a Grove has been featured in Designlines spring issue #2! It’s profiled as one of four houses in a feature entitled ‘Look Book: Room to Bloom’. Writer Amrit Phull details the landscaping strategies of each project, describing the living spaces of superkül’s collaboration with Fox Whyte Landscape Architecture & Design as “flowing seamlessly into a series…

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Sunshine Sketches: Drawings by Superkül principals included in global publication from Thames & Hudson

Making Marks: Architects’ Sketchbooks – The Creative Process – the followup to Will Jones’s Architects’ Sketchbooks – has just been released, and once again, drawings by Superkül principals Meg Graham and Andre D’Elia are featured. Revealing why and how hand-drawing still matters, this global survey presents the freehand drawings, vibrant watercolours and abstract impressions of 60 renowned…

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Reed’s Bay House published as a paradigm for modern cottage design

Reed’s Bay House is once again propelled into the spotlight, this time in the recently published book, The New Cottage: Inspiration for America’s Favorite Home. Authored by architect Katie Hutchison, the collection of 25 cottages includes Reed’s Bay House on Wolfe Island, Ontario. These projects serve as case studies in support of 10 key design strategies, demonstrating how a…

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Hot off the press! A Room with a View featured in Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture 2018

As the Jury Prize winner in the Residential Interiors category of the prestigious Architizer A+ Awards, superkül’s A Room with a View project has been featured in a newly released publication, Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture 2018. Published by the venerable Phaidon Press, the exquisitely designed and produced book documents both jury and popular choice winners. The selected…

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NOW Magazine Selects ‘ReflectLive’ in Best Events at DesignTO

We are honoured to be listed at the top of NOW Magazine’s 10 Best Events at DesignTO happening January 18-27. Our installation ‘ReflectLive’ at Delisle-St. Clair Parkette explores our relationship with urban forests as manicured spaces offering relief from city life, as well as places we can regain a sense of adventure and playfulness. Congratulations to the project…

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Superkül scores an Architecture MasterPrize hat trick!

We are over the moon to have won three awards in the Architecture MasterPrize awards program. Recently announced, three Superkül projects were selected from stiff international competition: Compass House in the Residential Architecture category, Aesop Queen Street West in the Retail category, and A Room with a View in the Rooms and Zones category. 

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Two Superkül projects featured in Canadian Contemporary: The Northern Home

We are honoured to have two of our projects profiled in the recently published book Canadian Contemporary: The Northern Home. Representing the diversity of Superkül’s single-family residential portfolio, multiple-award-winning Compass House and Valley House respond to their specific environments of country and city in a subtle and considered fashion while meeting the unique needs of their inhabitants. A foreword…

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A Golden Year ;)

This summer, we celebrated our one-year anniversary since we moved into our new location at 35 Golden Avenue! Thank you Harluu for keeping us kül.  A reminder that our office will be closed on Monday September 3rd, due to the Labour Day holiday. We will be back in action on Tuesday September 4th. Enjoy the long…

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Proper TV featured in The Globe & Mail

David LeBlanc describes our Proper TV project as a landmark for the Dovercourt Village neighbourhood in The Globe & Mail’s Real Estate section. Originally serving as a postal sorting station, this mid-20th century building was renovated and welcomed a dynamic one-storey addition to serve as the headquarters for Proper, a television show producer. Read more +

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On the Way Up – Part 2

Our Superkül staircase design is coming to fruition. The custom elliptical stairs were installed in four pieces last week. They were fabricated off site and CNC cut using a fibre optic laser. We’re looking forward to sharing the finished product with you!

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A Room with a View 2018 Architizer A+Awards Winner!

Our A Room with a View project is the 2018 Architizer A+Awards Jury Winner in the Residential Interiors category. With entries from over 100 countries, the A+Awards represent some of the best of architecture worldwide, with jurors, comprising equal parts architects + designers, cultural thought leaders, developers and other creatives. We are honoured to be recognized amongst…

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Designlines debuts House in a Grove

The fall edition of Designlines features our House in a Grove project as one of 8 picture-perfect homes across the GTA. Described by principal Meg Graham as “a house of the world,” House in a Grove pays homage to its globetrotting owners by incorporating elements from many of the over 70 countries they have visited.

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House on the Archipelago featured on Azure.com

In Canada, cottages – or cabins, or summer homes, or chalets – are a way of life. In “Escape to the Contemporary Canadian Cottage,” Azure.com shares projects — including our House on the Archipelago project — that highlight the diversity and beauty of the contemporary Canadian cottage. Read more +

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+House Book | Home for Health

+House is the subject of the recently published Home for Health: Creating a Sanctuary for Healing. Authored by the client, Hilton Tudhope, the book is an invaluable resource for those considering a healthy and sustainable approach to design and construction. Details can be found at: www.buildforhealth.com.

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House in a Grove wins CSLA Award!

We are thrilled to announce that our House in a Grove project has been awarded a National Award of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). Congratulations to the team!

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Superkül’s ‘Second Life’ at #TODO18

Check out our ‘Second Life’ installation in conjunction with Slate Asset Management at 40 St. Clair West for the Toronto Offsite Design Festival (TODO) until January 21st, 2018. superkül principal Meg Graham, along with representatives from Gensler and IBI Group recently participated in a talk titled, “Undo Toronto” to discuss pressing ctrl-Z on Toronto, making…

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Superkül celebrates 15 years!

Superkül recently celebrated its 15th birthday with a party in our brand-new office on Golden Avenue. We warmly welcomed our valued clients, consultants, colleagues and collaborators to this festive event, and enjoyed the opportunity of catching up with one another over cocktails and canapés by local favourite Dundas Park Kitchen. We thank you all for…

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Compass House wins RADA

For 17 years, the international Residential Architect Design Awards (RADA) have celebrated innovation and excellence at all scales and at all price points. DELIGHTED that Compass House received an honourable mention in the ‘Custom House More Than 3,000 Square Feet’ category.

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