A vision for Toronto’s decayed Canadian Malting silos becomes reality

If there is a curve, a hard ridge, a window, or a vent on the old Canada Malting silos, it needs to be there. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, superfluous.

A grain silo is the epitome of form following function, which is why German architect Walter Gropius published photographs of Buffalo silos six years before founding the famous Bauhaus school, and the Swiss-French legend, Le Corbusier, included them in his influential publication Vers Une Architecture in 1923.