Join us for an exclusive tour of Limberlost Place, led by four women whose contributions were key to the design and construction of this landmark project.

Located on George Brown Polytechnic’s Waterfront Campus, the 10-storey Limberlost Place is Canada’s only—and possibly the world’s first—academic mass timber tower. To accomplish this feat, the team led by Moriyama Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects needed to achieve the longer spans required for classrooms with mass timber, as well as to overcome regulatory hurdles related to the occupant load of an assembly-type building.

Join BEAToronto in touring King West restaurant SARA, praised by the Michelin guide for “its cool, almost monastic modernity” and for its design as “a place to keep the outside world at bay.”  Then join the designer for bites, or for a full family-style chef’s tasting menu dinner.

Your guide is Spanish architect Arancha González Bernardo, co-founder of Toronto-based Odami, who converted the 1900s Victorian townhouse into SARA, a process she says involved “striking the right balance between preserving the building’s domestic character, and maximizing its potential as a restaurant.”