Giannone Petricone’s Harmonious Transformation of Stock T.C.’s Culinary Space

Giannone Petricone Associates presents Stock T.C., a culinary emporium that began with a conversation about creating an original gastronomic experience offering fine ingredients, prepared foods, and vibrant dining.

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.
Photo credit: Stephanie Palmer — 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.
Photo credit: Stephanie Palmer

Display counters anchor the market with bakery and butchery ingredients under a white felt proscenium.
Photo credit: Stephanie Palmer — Display counters anchor the market with bakery and butchery ingredients under a white felt proscenium. Photo credit: Stephanie Palmer

Giannone Petricone’s response began with a name: STOCK T.C. implies stocked shelves, chicken stock, stockyards — essential building blocks from which to create a theatre of food, considered and presented in a trajectory from raw to refined.

Within a landmark postal station, STOCK T.C. offers an open market at grade, a 200-seat bistro on the second floor, and a third-floor garden room event space with a circular bar and roof terrace that takes full advantage of its sweeping views.

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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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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To restore and repurpose the 1936 limestone building, the design team lined the perimeter walls with a second skin spaced from the original shell and then hung shelving, lighting, and acoustic-dampening textures from it. The omnipresence of food preparation, with a clear ‘backstage’ treatment, mixes with the building materials to entertain the senses.

Just as bountiful shelves and counters display raw ingredients and comestibles, and the restaurant serves artfully finished plates, Giannone Petricone introduces materials and architectural elements interpreted in degrees of unrefined to refined. This progression unfolds as one moves from the ground-level market and self-serve tavola calda to the bistro, bar, and event experiences on the second and third levels.

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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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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The stacking of spaces, and the charged thresholds between them, are enriched by vestiges of the historic building’s original purpose, such as custom ‘coffer’ lights, postage stamp-patterned mosaic flooring, and felt ceiling baffles reminiscent of filing cabinet dividers.

Situated on a public plaza that once served as a historically important gathering place, Stock T.C. continues to draw people together, reanimating this civic corner with a wonderful new cultural experience.

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.
Photo credit: Doublespace — 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 of the city beyond.
Photo credit: Doublespace

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.
Photo credit: Doublespace — 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.
Photo credit: Doublespace

Source: v2com newswire

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