Vancouver-based Henriquez Partners Architects announced that Jennifer Mallard, FRAIC, has joined the practice as principal of the firm’s new Toronto studio.
Mallard was previously a partner at Diamond Schmitt, where she developed extensive knowledge of the Toronto market, with 30 plus years of experience leading the design and delivery of civic, residential, educational and institutional projects. She led the National Arts Centre Rejuvenation Project in Ottawa, opening up the 1960s Brutalist building to welcome the city. She also led the Daniels Spectrum and Paintbox residential project in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. In Vancouver, she led the Allard Hall Faculty of Law project at the University of British Columbia.
“We are excited that our Westcoast perspective is being so warmly welcomed in Toronto to help address the city’s urgent need for a diversity of housing opportunities, and we look forward to working with Torontonians who share our values and aspirations to build inclusive communities where all belong,” said managing principal Gregory Henriquez, FRAIC.
The firm currently has four major projects in Toronto including two significant CreateTO projects.
5207 Dundas Street West will be CreateTO’s first development to start construction under Toronto’s Housing Now initiative with Tricon Residential and Kilmer Group with Henriquez as design architect and G+C Architects as architect of record. The 580,000 ft² project will deliver 507 market rental units and 218 purpose-built affordable rental units.
Henriquez has also been selected to design 2444 Eglinton Avenue East, a mixed-tenure residential project of approximately 1 million ft² near Kennedy Station in Scarborough. This transit-oriented project is a collective effort by CreateTO, C2K, Co-op Housing Federation of Toronto, with Windmill and Civic Developments. The project will be the city’s first new Co-op housing development in a generation adding 900 plus new homes in the GTA.
The other two projects include condominiums at Block 13 with Dream and Kilmer Group, the last site in the Canary District currently in the rezoning phase, and rental housing Mirvish Village currently under construction. Henriquez’s projects in Toronto cumulatively total 4 million ft² of development and will provide more than 3,500 units of housing to help address Toronto’s deepening housing crisis.
