Tomlinson Corporate Headquarters, Ottawa Building Project, Canadian Architecture Images
Tomlinson Corporate Headquarters in Ottawa
Modern Commercial Building in Canada ? design by Christopher Simmonds Architect Inc.
22 Jun 2019
Tomlinson Corporate Headquarters
Design: Christopher Simmonds Architect Inc.
Location: 100 Citigate Drive, Ottawa, Canada

The need for a new home for the Tomlinson Corporate Headquarters presented a unique opportunity for the company to communicate its values and demonstrate their business identity. The company?s involvement in mineral extraction, earthworks and infrastructure formed the basis for our design response and the core of what the building needed to convey. To that end, the project has been imagined as a restored and re-naturalized landscape within which the building emerges and over which it bridges.
The Tomlinson Corporate Headquarters Ottawa building is inserted into an undulating, one-storey landscaped berm, which extends over the entire property. This berm is cut away and opens up at each entrance where the openings are lined with sloping, board-formed concrete. To arrive at the site and enter the building is to experience the strength of stone and earth on which The Tomlinson Group is based.

The ground floor is embedded into the landscaped berm; the strength of stone and concrete is apparent to all who pass in and out of the building. The second floor is level with the raised landscape and the third and fourth floors float ab...