Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
STOCK T.C’s ground floor open market is organized under an embracing, wool felt proscenium that aligns with the bakery and the butchery counters. Terrazzo patches of the original postal hall floor were ground and polished to almost new condition.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
The raw and exposed building’s concrete shell is layered with contemporary elements: custom-designed end-grain wood block counters and butter-yellow extrusions shelving and light fixtures that trace the long gone but remembered ceiling coffers.
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Stephanie Palmer
Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
Display counters anchor the market with bakery and butchery ingredients under a white felt proscenium.
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Stephanie Palmer
Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
As one moves through the interior, unusual juxtapositions of texture and materials such as raw and refined, hard and soft, colourful and monochromatic, subtly indicate STOCK T.C’s delightful and fresh mixing of ingredients and ideas.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
The second-floor bistro lines the historic building with new layers of cork, wood, mirrored glass, and stone, treated with a greater degree of refinement than the market level.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
The second floor organizing proscenium is rendered in meticulously laid glass mosaic tile, with a supple pink horizon line that contrasts with this floor’s otherwise earthy palette. A large keyhole offers a peek to the bustling kitchen.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
Discrete and tufted golden yellow banquettes, oak shelving and cork walls sit spaced from the original exterior walls to expose the historic windows and city views.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
Postage stamp decals are recalled in mosaic floor patterns, while envelope liners inspired the bar lamp shapes, and clerical filing cabinets cued the felt baffle ceiling.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
Imagined as a modern garden pavilion, the third floor space includes custom wicker banquettes with leather-strap canvas cushions. Custom globe light fittings dot the room like sun-filled bubbles.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
Floor-to-ceiling windows look over the Toronto skyline with unrivalled views. The woven chevron wood ceiling is like a tree canopy whilst also framing the long view to the city beyond.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
A thin-shell dome defines the third floor's intimate, circular cocktail bar wrapped in slate leather.
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Stock T.C Transforms a Heritage Postal Station Into an Original Gastronomic Experience
Giannone Petricone Associates
The largest rooftop patio in Toronto's Yonge-Eglinton corridor, STOCK T.C presents a lush and breezy oasis with sweeping views in three directions.
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