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Multi-Tenant Housing
April 9, 2024Theres a new name for ‘Rooming Houses’, and it’s called ‘Multi-Tenant Housing’ Rooming Houses have been an affordable housing type for centuries, and have been stigmatized and discouraged for the last few decades in Toronto. This month Toronto’s new Multi-Tenant Housing Framework comes into effect. Zoning for Multi-Tenant houses will open up across the GTA, and a new license will be required for operators. Rooming houses are an important typology in providing housing to people with lower incomes, though can be exploitative when not properly managed. Cyan has been reading up on the new licensing requirements and is ready to work with operators to upgrade their properties so they can be code compliant, decent homes for Torontonians.Watermelon Maquette
December 14, 2023An architectural offering for the people of Gaza. Holiday hopes for an end to the bloodshed. #ceasefire #architectsforceasefire #melancholymaquettesCannibal Architecture
November 21, 2023 This little house is the site of Cyan dreams. Community ritual, art curation, circular design experiment, and seed for a new land-based collective. We will be deconstructing this house slowly starting this spring. We are in search of collaborators, artists, supporters to help realize this dream. Reach out if you are intrigued, share with those that may be. Because it all comes back to the land, and we desperately need a new approach.