OSSTF Headquarters: New headquarters champions health and sustainability

New headquarters champions health and sustainability

This article is written by David McPherson, Globe & Mail: 

‘The new headquarters of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF), inspired by its bucolic setting overlooking Toronto’s Don Valley ravine, reflects the group’s core value of health and well-being, and it uses mass timber as a sustainable solution.

Moriyama Teshima Architects accounted for these factors at every stage when designing the revitalized three-storey building, a 124,000-square-foot structure that also reflects the rich history of the OSSTF, founded in 1919.

The area dedicated to the union’s headquarters opened last May, and the rest of the space is waiting to be leased by future tenants.

“Every day we go to the window and see three to seven deer on our lawn,” says Jim Spray, the OSSTF’s chief financial officer. “We often joke that we’re working in a zoo.”’

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