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Stephen Teeple

Trinity Bellwoods Park (1913)/City of Toronto Archives

Scarborough College/Courtesy Magnus Manske

Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation/Courtesy Flickr

Stephen Teeple is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Stephen established Teeple Architects Inc. in 1989 and in the intervening years has been awarded significant honurs for his contribution to Canadian architecture.

Favorite New Green Building
60 Richmond is an example of green urbanism in which an outdoor garden forms a social heart.

Must-see Historic Building
T-D [Toronto-Dominion] Centre is fine urban composition by Mies van der Rohe. The banking pavilion is particularly lovely.

Off-the-Beaten-Path Architecture 
See John Andrews’s exceptional landscape-based sculptural concrete masterpiece at Scarborough College.

Best Public Parks/Spaces
Toronto is not known for parks but Trinity Bellwoods is a lively Queen West exception.

Museums/Galleries/Performing Arts
The Ydessa Hendeles Gallery [housed in a renovated uniform factory] while small, often features exceptional installations.

Drinking, Dining, and Shopping  
Wide Open is a lower end hole in the wall on Spadina—drinks are $2.50 until 8 on Thursdays. The Embassy is a young, trendy bar with a patio in one of Toronto's more interesting districts. The Dakota Room has live music that starts up around 10. Brooklyn is another lively, bar, with good music starting later around 11ish. Communist Daughter is owned by the daughter of a communist—it’s for cool intellectual types. La Palette has excellent French cuisine in a casual fun atmosphere.