10.30.24
HERMANT BUILDING RECEIVES ADAPTIVE REUSE AWARD
Heritage Toronto 2024
The 49th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards took place on Monday, October 28. Six winners were named from 53 nominees in three categories: Book, Public History, and Building Heritage. Giaimo is honoured to receive a Heritage Toronto, Built Heritage Category, Adaptive Reuse Award for The Hermant Building Transformation.
When Giaimo started the Transformation project approximately 100 years since its original construction, the Hermant Building was fading into the background, overwhelmed by its surroundings. Our design approach was not to compete but to restore it to a quiet elegance and reassert its presence within the immediate public realm. The transformation of this art deco office tower included extensive exterior restorations, interior base building upgrades and retrofit, and 90,000 sq.ft. of commercial tenant renovations. With reuse at the core of the project, the Hermant Building Transformation is a case study in heritage conservation as climate action. The approach inherently leverages the buildings embodied carbon, and all interventions sought to minimize waste.
Project Team
- Owner – HNR Properties Limited
- Project Lead/Prime Architect/Heritage Architect – Giaimo
- Mechanical and Electrical – Loring Consulting Engineers
- Structural – Engineering Link
- Heritage Contractor – Colonial Building Restoration
- Construction Manager – Walton GC
