Seneca College Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepeneurship
Writing
Seneca College CITE
How a new educational technology hub fulfills a mandate for greater indigenous culture and community building
“Toronto’s Finch Avenue is a thoroughfare that carries commuters out of the city’s downtown into the suburbs with hardly a traffic light to curb the flow. Until recently, many drivers may not have realized they were whizzing past the Newnham Campus of Seneca College, Ontario’s largest community college. That changed last fall with the opening of CITE, the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, designed by the Toronto office of Perkins and Will. With its brushed aluminum cladding, I-beam columns, and five stories of clear glazing, the building makes an immediate impression even from the window of a passing car.” Read more.
Architects: Perkins + Will
Photography: doublespace
Published: Metropolis, July 2020
Writing
Seneca College CITE
How a new educational technology hub fulfills a mandate for greater indigenous culture and community building
“Toronto’s Finch Avenue is a thoroughfare that carries commuters out of the city’s downtown into the suburbs with hardly a traffic light to curb the flow. Until recently, many drivers may not have realized they were whizzing past the Newnham Campus of Seneca College, Ontario’s largest community college. That changed last fall with the opening of CITE, the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, designed by the Toronto office of Perkins and Will. With its brushed aluminum cladding, I-beam columns, and five stories of clear glazing, the building makes an immediate impression even from the window of a passing car.” Read more.
Architects: Perkins + Will
Photography: Nic Lehoux
Published: Architectural Record, March 2017