Calvin Brook

Calvin Brook is an architect, urban designer and planner and co-founder of Brook McIlroy, an architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and urban planning practice with offices in Toronto and Thunder Bay. His practice merges the fields of urbanism, architecture and landscape through projects that touch all scales of place making. His work has been recognized with over thirty professional awards from the European Centre for Architecture, Chicago Athenaeum, the International Downtown Association, The Waterfront Centre, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Canadian Institute of Planners, and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. 

 

He was project director and principal author of EGLINTONConnects (2014) and Toronto’s Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study (2010) for the City of Toronto. He has led over 30 campus projects for universities, colleges and schools across North America including Science Park at Yale,  Dartmouth College Downtown Campus Plan and the University of Saskatchewan’s College Quarter. Major projects include the redevelopment of former military bases at Downsview (Toronto) and Rockcliife (Ottawa), the Rogers NHL Arena in Vancouver, Porto Montenegro in Tivat, Montenegro and waterfronts in Windsor, Burlington and Toronto. Since 2009, Cal has been the principal architect and planner for the $130 million Prince Arthur’s Landing project in Thunder Bay including two LEED Gold public buildings, condominiums and the new Delta Waterfront Hotel now under construction. The project has received 17 design awards. 

 

Cal was editor and a contributing author with John Ralston Saul and Joseph Boyden of the book: The City and The Spirit Garden (2014). His work with Canada’s Aboriginal communities has been recognized by The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business and is the first design practice in Canada certified under CCAB’s Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program. 

 

Cal holds degrees in architecture from Harvard University and the University of Toronto. He was formerly Associate Professor of Urban Design at the University of Waterloo and Director of the Career Discovery Urban Design Program at Harvard University. He is a member of the City of Toronto’s Design Review Panel, Chair of the Downsview Park Design Review Panel and a Senior Fellow of the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto.