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Avling Kitchen & Brewery

Firm LocationToronto, Canada
CompanyLAMAS Architecture Ltd
Lead ArchitectJames Macgillivray
Design TeamWeihan Vivian Lee, Ron Noble, Kiefer Savage, Ella den Elzen
ClientAvling Kitchen & Brewery

A renovation of an old supermarket, Avling Kitchen and Brewery is inspired by the “field to glass” principle of early breweries. Fields of activity are delineated by larger than life 3x6 raw wood frames, pink steel, and optic fields of lights, glazing and a custom mural. On the roof of the building is a 400 square meter vegetable and herb garden. The garden is integral to the whole building and embodies the name Avling, Norwegian for harvest. The mural by Madison van Rijn reinterprets the crop fields of rural Ontario as color fields, patterning the walls with forms on the verge of recognition.