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The award-winning Toronto firm of Levitt Goodman Architects Ltd. is helping to transform an almost century-old industiral building in downtown Cambridge into the new home of the University of Waterloo school of architecture.
Principal Janna Levitt, whose firm is the local architect of record on the project, said the former Riverside Silk Mills building on the banks of the Grand River is in "remarkably good shape. The basic bones are fantastic," she said in an interview.
Construction manager Alberici Constructors started work late last year on the $8.4-million renovation project. The 85,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in September.
The new school will be located approximately 30 minutes south of the main university campus.
Levitt, whose firm won a Governor General's medal of excellence in architecture in 1999 for the conversion of a...