New Mass Timber Building in Toronto Home to Teachers’ Federation and Commercial Space

The new Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF/FEESO) Headquarters and Multi-Tenant Commercial Building, designed by Moriyama Teshima Architects, has officially opened in Toronto, Ontario, according to a feature by Canadian Architect (11-11-24).

The OSSTF is a mass timber facility that ensures that the OSSTF Headquarters and Multi-Tenant Commercial Building operates as a hub that supports public education in Ontario, provides healthy workplace environments for its staff and visitors, and meets the organization’s goals of financial resiliency.

The three-story, mass timber, 127,000-square-foot facility is centered on the OSSTF Headquarters. The OSSTF represents all the educators, educational assistants, psychologists, secretaries, speech-language pathologists, social workers, plant support personnel, attendance counselors and many other education professionals in the secondary school system in the province.

Built of cross laminated timber (CLT) floor slabs and glue laminated timber (GLT) beams and columns, structural components have been sourced nationally where possible.