A new rental community at Toronto’s Bathurst & Bloor.

Frank Stella is recognized as an iconic figure of post-war American art. The mural at Mirvish Village, Star Wall for Ed, is inspired by the artist’s connection to the Mirvish family—Stella’s Damascus Gate, a 50-foot painting created in 1970, was displayed in David Mirvish Books for 35 years. The mural is painted on the side of 610 Markham Street, once home to Anne Mirvish’s studio, and depicts a “constellation of stars” to celebrate the Village’s history and evolution.

With studios in Toronto and Vancouver, Henriquez excels at complex mixed-use projects that foster inclusive and engaged communities. They believe that architecture has the potential to be a poetic expression of social justice—every project is an opportunity to enrich local communities by integrating ethics and aesthetics. Informed by this credo and an unwavering commitment to design integrity, the firm is committed to managing projects from design through to construction and have the technical expertise to create structures that stand the test of time.

Janet Rosenberg is one of Canada’s foremost landscape architects and a trailblazer in the profession. As founding partner of Janet Rosenberg & Studio Inc., she has over forty years of experience pushing the boundaries of landscape architecture, leading the design and implementation of complex and award-winning public and private landscapes across Canada.

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, artist, and cultural commentator whose work spans literature, visual art, theatre, and journalism. Since 1991, he has published thirteen internationally acclaimed novels, contributed to major publications including The New York Times and Financial Times, and exhibited widely through major museum retrospectives in Canada and Europe. Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy.

A fundamental goal of architecture is to shelter human activity, but the best architecture inspires new and better ways of living. Environmental, technological, and social forces are changing everything from art to education to commerce to healing and beyond. And great design has the capacity to navigate this change with boldness, invention, and beauty.

ERA Architects Inc. (ERA) is an award-winning architecture and planning firm focused on conservation through reactivation. Working across a lively spectrum of scales and locales, they develop heritage planning approaches that renew and improve the built environment.

Toronto has increasingly positioned itself as a city that works collaboratively with private developers to shape complete communities—not just individual buildings. As population growth accelerates and housing demand intensifies, the city relies on public-private partnerships to help deliver housing, infrastructure, transit-oriented development, public space, and mixed-use neighbourhoods.

Batay-Csorba Architects (BCA) is an architecture and interior design studio that combines research and practice to create progressive projects across all scales. Their projects all have a desire to create something extraordinary. Whether a home, retail store, ballet school, museum, or a skyscraper, their projects start with a critical eye, a question of "what if" and a curiosity to explore. Their projects are never alike, being less about formulaic style and more about restless innovation, boundary pushing, and delight.