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This year's Doors Open Toronto event offers a multitude of exciting buildings and sites spread around the GTA to explore over this weekend. To get the most out of the weekend, we've created a list of some nodes around Toronto where you will find groups of Doors Open venues, allowing you to get to lots of sites while minimizing time travelling around the city. Be sure to click on the building links to get all the details, including tours times, special events and photography restrictions at each Doors Open location.
The Black Creek Experience
The Black Creek Experience is a group of attractions, organization and businesses clustered together to form an initiative called Experience Black Creek. The group will be hosting a festival to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Black Creek community and offers this weekend's visitors a preview of the festivities. Below is a list of the Doors Open sites where visitors will be able to explore.
Black Creek Experience - Ascend
Ascend is a fully functioning retail space for young entrepreneurs in the Black Creek area. It operates as a social enterprise of Doorsteps Neighbourhood Services with the majority of the revenue returning to the entrepreneur. Visitors will get to speak with current vendors and entrepreneurs and get the opportunity to see a showcase by the Ascend Arts Collective in their latest youth project.
Black Creek Experience- Black Creek Community Farm
This farm, established in 1853, is Toronto's first full scale organic vegetable farm. It grows healthy, local, affordable food for the Jane-Finch residents. It operates a part of a farm-based organization that provides hands-on solution-based food and farming education to build and engage healthy communities through food. Visitors will be able to get their hands dirty by helping staff with planting, seeding and compositing. There will also be opportunities to purchase fresh, organic produce.
Black Creek Experience- West Side Arts Hub
This arts space was created within a library to foster the development and impact of community arts by empowering local artists, art groups, youth and residents, The hub also works to promote social justice through the arts in the West End. Visitors will get to meet the artists who helped to found the hub.
This historically restored 19th century community is the heart of the Black Creek Community. It features restored omes, workshops and public buildings. Visitors will get to visit the farm animals, enjoy heritage gardens and watch historical entrepreneurs in period costume demonstrate trades and crafts. The Pioneer Village will open Flynn House, the focus of a restoration project which has been closed since 2010.
Fort York
Another historical site that is opening more than one door is downtown Toronto's Fort York. Vistors should note that the newly created Fort York branch of the Toronto Public Library which was originally scheduled to open for the Doors open event will be closed to the public this weekend to finish up construction.
Created in 1935 by Toronto architect Ferdinand Marani, the armoury served as the headquarters for infantry regiments and field engineers of the the Militia (now the Army Reserve). The large windows at wither end of the armoury's central hall and ceiling are that of a 1930s airplane hangar. Marani used created a lamella roof, a technology that was very popular in Europe at the time, and instead of using concrete, the European choice, he opted for a timber lattice instead. Visitors will be able to see stone cap badges of the original regiments and the Dominion of Canada coat of arms above the door. There will also be serenaded by the military band which will be playing throughout the weekend and also see, touch and try equipment carried by soldiers today.
Fort York National Historic Site
This is the settlement of modern Toronto which was established in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe. Simcoe, fearing military action from the south, moved the capital from exposed Niagara to Toronto. He began by building a garission on the present site of Fort York. Visitors who visit on Saturday will be able to attend a talk entitled "Redesigning Toronto" moderated by author and journalist Shawn Micallef, which will feature discussion of a number of topics which will affect the future architectural and urban planning of Toronto.
Humber College
Humber College Centre for Justice and Leadership
If you're a fan of CSi, this is certaibly not a place to miss out on. This is one of Humber's technology-based learning environments dedicated to the teaching of Crime Scene Investigation. The 18 00ft2 former car dealership was transformed to include a lecture theatre built around a simulated 1-bedroom apartment for the re-enactment of crime scenes, a forensic studio and four interview rooms. The centre has prepared a "crime" scene in its simulation studio and visitors who will get to see the evidence processed in the Forensic lab.
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Lakeshore Campus
Visitors to this site will get to learn about the varied history of this building from its origins as the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital. The hospital's Gothic and Romanesque style was intended to create a claming utopia for its residents. There will be tours that detail the construction of " The Cottages" and allow visitors to explore the site's extensive tunnel system that was used to deliver supplies and move patients between buildings.
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Lakeshore Campus, Fashion Institute
First established in 1890 as an inn which later became a boarding house for retired men and then a restaurant, Humber's current Fashion Institute building has worn many hats. Visitors will get to explore a collection of historical fashions and get insight into the process of creating a window display.
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Lakeshore Campus L Space Gallery
Come see the new "front door" to the east side of the Lakeshore campus. This building is LEED Silver certified and features the L space gallery an innovative space to engage the public and to showcase students visual art and performance art piece. This weekend's visitors will be able to see the current exhibit, "Secrets of Teaching and Learning" which will be showing until June 20.
University of Toronto: St. George Campus
Established in 1974 and built in 1983 as a response to the growing demand for an overseerer of the Hart House permanent collection. Visitors will also have the opportunity to tour U of T's beautiful Gothic Revival student centre.
This is the original building of U of T's faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, originally the school of Practical Science. The building was designated as a Heritage Property for its importance as a major example of Edwardian Classicism. In 2000, Pierre Lassonde and GoldCorp Mining added the GoldCorp Mining and Innovation Suite on the building's fourth floor which will be open to the public.
The Munk School of Global Affairs
This building wwas established in1909 as a Metereological observation centre and home to the Dominion Metereological Service. in the 1930s a 24-hour weather service operated from the observatory tower which was instrumental in teaching Canada's WWI pilots how to identify weather patterns. Visitors can freely walk throughout the building and will be able to ask staff questions about the Munk school. Representatives from Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) about the building's renovations.
This building provides a rare example of a building designed by notable architect and U of T dean of architecture Eric Arthur. Arthur was one of the first to teach the Modern Movement in Canada. The Moriyama Teshima-designed Goldring Centre doubles the space of the former Wymilwood student union building to 40,000 ft2. The defining architectural attributes of the former building have been preserved including the concrete beams, copper and cantilevered staircases.
UTSC: University of Toronto Scarborough
The Andrews building, home to the former Scarborough College, provides aggressive utopian architecture that is both complemented by and juxtaposed with Toronto's countryside. The building was created by Australian John Andrews who went on to build the CN Tower. When the building opened it was on the cover of Time Magazine.
This prime example of the Arts and Crafts style, was the summer retreat for Toronto lawyer and industrialist Miller Lash and his family. It was one of he first homes in Ontario to have poured concrete walls which were then faced with river stone collected from the nearby Highland Creek. Visitors will get to tour the residence's English style gardens and view historic photographs.
