Danish firm 3XN revealed their design for T3 Bayside, which will be the first office structure to emerge in Toronto's Bayside neighborhood. Once built, at 42 meters high, the 10-story structure would reportedly be the tallest timber office building in North America. Currently in design development, the project is part of a 2,000-acre revitalization initiative that will transform the Toronto waterfront.

Built using sustainable Cross Laminated Timber, T3 Bayside's two wooden buildings were designed to complement and activate its surrounding live-work-play neighborhood. Retail spaces will be located on all sides and a new central plaza will be surrounded by stepped community and shared spaces like galleries, flexible offices, and coworking facilities.

“Located along Queens Quay East and flanked by Merchant's Wharf, T3 Bayside presents an opportunity to enhance and enforce the existing master plan on multiple levels. Through a series of stepped roof terraces, the building strengthens and emphasizes the movement and heights of the existing master plan at either end of the site. The same terraces step downwards toward the plaza,” 3XN says. 

The heart of the project is the public plaza, which will be surrounded by flexible corner lobbies, retail, and cafe spaces. Similarly, office, coworking, and community spaces inside are flexibly designed to accommodate various programs based on tenants' needs. Diagonal cuts in the building volume break it down to a more human scale around the plaza, and is then built back up to city-scale as they rise across the facade.