OCAD - Sharpe Centre for Design Photo Gallery


Introduction
OCAD's new Sharp Centre for Design, dubbed a "flying rectangle" by its acclaimed British architect Will Alsop, hovers 26 meters in the air on 12, nine-storey-high stilts of steel. The pixilation effect of the building's exterior cladding camouflages the windows and blurs the scale of the table-top making it impossible to tell when one floor begins or ends. The 60-thousand-square-foot Sharp Centre for Design was built much like half a suspension bridge. The central elevator core, which provides the primary support, is equivalent to a tower at one end of a bridge. The legs, approximately ten storeys high, are equivalent to suspension cables. They are hollow and made of steel approximately 1" thick. Each leg weighs 18,000 pounds. The Sharp Centre for Design is part of a $42.5 million building expansion at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Canada's oldest and largest university of art and design.

Outside


Views of Toronto from Inside - North


Views of Toronto from Inside - West

Views of Toronto from Inside - South & East (Downtown)





Facilities - notice the placing of the windows