Public Studio - Geary Ave

Geary Avenue is where we live. It’s a 15,000 sq ft building with artist studios, workspaces and apartments in downtown Toronto. Originally a family run manufacturing business, we’ve converted the building from a warehouse to a live-work space for ourselves and our co-living partners. There is a flower studio, Emblem, a furniture design business, MADE and our art and architecture studio: Public Studio. Charles St Video, a Toronto artist-run centre, occupies the main floor of Geary Ave as does Public Good, a design studio. Past artists and organizations that have worked and thrived here include Black Lives Matter, Julia Dault and Casson Harware.

As a live/work dwelling situated on an industrial street, the project had many intentions: Primarily to create a co-living artist live-work spaces in a city desperately lacking in affordable housing; to address the public nature of living and working together with others on an urban street; to renovate in a sustainable and cost-conscious manner; to maximize natural light and to allow the original building to reveal itself under its contemporary transformation.

press

Feature in Globe and Mail, xxx 2018
Feature in Design Lines Magazine, xxx 2017