Last summer, I had the pleasure to work with Kevin Weiss on the photography of his latest project: a washroom pavilion in an Etobicoke park. While you may think to yourself, I don't want to read about no stinkin' pavilion in a suburb, before you pinch your nose and look away, hear me out.
Kevin has a knack for finding poetry in the most pedestrian of projects, while always coming up with clever and cost-effective ways to solve seemingly intractable problems. He is in my mind one of the most talented Canadian architects, if not completely overlooked.
©2019, Revelateur Studio. Post-production by Korab Image.
In this project, he was able to satisfy his self-admitted brick fetish (hint: it's not the only brick building in his portfolio), in the form of a park's public washroom, that is as functional as it is inviting. While this building is as utilitarian as they get, it is by employing the right type of brick (ironically imported from England) and carefully playing with the brickwork, that the pavilion takes on a new life from the outside as sunlight continually changes the expression of the texture through the interplay of light and shadows.
It is intended to become the standard for the city of Toronto park washroom facilities. If that's the case I can't wait to see them popping up in the parks across the city.
It’s a breath of fresh air in an otherwise bland and depressing suburb.
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