Thinking outside the box: Eight new ideas for Château Laurier expansion

When the Fairmont Chateau Laurier’s parent company, Larco Investments Inc., unveiled its design plans for an addition in 2016, members of the public were largely unimpressed with the proposal that was essentially a box attached to the rear of the building, facing Major’s Hill Park.
Architect Peter Clewes, head of Toronto’s architectsAlliance firm that came up with the design, went back to the drawing board, but subsequent designs for the 160-plus room addition, also boxy in nat