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Red leather-tufted banquettes and factory glass windows
define the Broadview Hotel's recently opened Civic restaurant

The Broadview Hotel's rooftop terrace houses a private
dining room in the tower of the original building

Anndore House, with 113 guestrooms designed
by local firm Cecconi Simone. "Focusing on the
youthful neighborhood and hotel demographic,
we designed the sense of arrival-the groundfloor F&B and event spaces-as inviting hubs for
locals and travelers to mingle in," notes Munge.
Last summer, architects Ralph Giannone
and Pina Petricone of Giannone Petricone put
the final touches on Sud Forno on Yonge Street,
Cosimo Mammoliti's latest southern Italian
venue with a casual bakery and food hall on
the lower level, and an upscale dining area with
private rooms on the upper. The architects-
who have worked with Mammoliti since the
early '90s-intentionally wanted to highlight
the heritage building's architecture with rough
and smooth surfaces, creating an unfinished

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basilica-like atmosphere on the ground floor
with mosaic floor tiles and pendants peeking
through a light well from the floor above.
New York's Andi Pepper Interior Design and
Stephen B. Jacobs Group (along with executive
architect Norr) are the masterminds behind
the upcoming 404-room, 27-story lakefront
Hotel X, the newest offering from the Library
Hotel Collection, which, when it opens this
spring, has a lofty goal: to redefine the lifestyle
hotel concept by introducing, among its many
amenities, a 60,000-square-foot membership
sports club and a three-story rooftop bar open to
the public with an indoor-outdoor pool. "What
was really exciting about the project is that its
size made it possible to bring the lifestyle hotel
to a scale never before attempted," says Jacobs,

An industrial look pervades Anndore House's
exposed brick-clad master suite

who has known Library Collection president
Henry Kallan for nearly 20 years and worked
with him on the original Library and Giraffe
hotels in Manhattan. The contemporary design
of the glass and metal tower continues inside,
where the team mixed old and new-but with
a twist, Jacobs says. For instance, "The classical
floor pattern that leads you to the reception
desk at the rear of the triple-height lobby is
deconstructed as it interfaces with the polished
concrete look of the rest of the floor."
The multicultural Yorkville neighborhood
will welcome a Kimpton in mid-2018 and a
188-room Canopy by Hilton in early 2020. In
addition, the multimillion-dollar renovation of
the Fairmont Royal York refreshed 910 rooms
across 11 floors. Further ahead, Hariri Pontarini
Architects is leading the design on the massive
downtown mixed-use project Pinnacle One
Yonge Street, which covers two city blocks
and features three soaring towers with a hotel
component in the works, while Vancouver firm
CHIL Interior Design is behind the upcoming
120-room Qube from Shanghai's Greenland
Group. Scheduled for a 2019 launch, with a
façade preserved by ERA, it will be housed in
the historic 1927 Westinghouse Canada Building
in the theater district, part of Greenland's larger
mixed-use development plan that includes
two 40-plus-story condo towers and a theater
museum. For the 4-Star hotel, expect an elegant,
yet urban look, a mix of natural materials, warm
metals, and pops of vibrant fabrics.
Yet one of the most exciting developments
is in the works from Sidewalk Labs, the urban
innovation unit of Google parent company
Alphabet: a Smart City development on the
city's east end by the lakeshore. In addition to
self-driving vehicles and a connected digital
infrastructure, there will also be sustainable and
environmental solutions, including walkable
neighborhoods.
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