The Toronto based architecture firm ARK has been awarded recognition and prizes for their Uja Federation Community Complex. The complex has been designed to unite and create synergies between a broad array of community services, including child & health care, sports & recreation, arts & culture, and community & spirituality. All of this has been integrated in a transparent 34 000 square meter, three storey complex.

- We felt that the goal of the architecture was to make meaningful connections between the diverse uses. Transparency was the solution: views and vistas between the building and the surrounding neighbourhood, between varying community groups build bonds and create a sense of community that crosses perceived boundaries of age, race or gender...

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Source: interiornews.com.