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Humber College is Fostering Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability

By | April 04, 2024 | Originally Appeared in Global Heroes

A vibrant project is underway at Humber College, paving the way for arts, culture, and sustainability.

Humber College is transforming its Lakeshore Campus into a destination for arts and culture through the development of the Humber Cultural Hub (HCH). Building on Humber’s foundation of carbon reductions and eco-conscious practices, the HCH also represents a significant investment in cultural sustainability in the GTA.

Humber Cultural Hub wins 2024 Clean50 Top Project award

By Chris Clay | November 07, 2023 | Originally Appeared in Humber Today

It will be a net-zero building built to the highest standards of sustainability.

You can add another award to the Humber Cultural Hub’s (HCH) list of accolades after it was recently announced that it was named a 2024 Clean50 Top Project award winner.

The Humber Cultural Hub will be fossil fuel free. Here’s how

By Chris Clay | September 11, 2023 | Originally Appeared in Humber Today

Just how innovative and environmentally sustainable is the Humber Cultural Hub (HCH)?

Despite being three times the size of the existing A Building at Lakeshore Campus it will replace, the HCH will use the same amount of energy as its predecessor. It’s also shunning fossil fuels for sustainable energy sources to be a net zero building.

Sustainability is a recipe for success for award-winning Humber Cultural Hub

By Chris Clay | May 15, 2023 | Originally Appeared in Humber Today

Humber College received silver at the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics (WFCP) Awards of Excellence for the innovative and sustainable Humber Cultural Hub(HCH).

Planned $200M Etobicoke Humber College hub to enhance arts programming

By Alice Chen | April 13, 2023 | Originally Appeared in The Etobicoke Guardian

A new cultural hub scheduled to launch at Humber College’s Etobicoke Lakeshore campus comes with an array of new arts facilities and sustainability features, while allowing for the campus to build more business, host more local community events and improve student experience. Hub features 500-seat multidisciplinary performance hall.

New Humber Cultural Hub targets LEED and Zero-Carbon standards

By Nicholas Sokic | March 10, 2023 | Originally Appeared in Sustainable Biz Canada

The man heading up development of the new Humber Cultural Hub at Humber College's Lakeshore Campus in Toronto says sustainability is a core principal for the project, which targets LEED Platinum and Zero-Carbon Building and Design Standards certifications.

Humber College's Lakeshore Campus to be Nuit Blanche hot spot

By | August 08, 2022 | Originally Appeared in blogTO

For the first time, Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus will host Nuit Blanche as the celebration of contemporary art seeks to turn itself into a city-wide event.

The sixteenth edition of the all-night event returns on Oct. 1, overnight into Oct. 2, and is billing itself as the most expansive to date featuring the artwork of more than 150 artists.

When polytechnic schools and industry collaborate, students gain skills and businesses solve problems

By | November 17, 2021 | Originally Appeared in The Globe and Mail

When Guillermo Acosta looks out the window at Humber College’s Faculty of Media & Creative Arts he sees a fleet of construction cranes, but also something else - the future of how education, industry and the arts will work together.

A brand new cultural hub is now being built on Toronto's waterfront

By Jack Landau | October 03, 2021 | Originally Appeared in blogTO

The student populations of Toronto colleges and universities are swelling, and so too are the campuses that support them. Humber's Lakeshore Campus is now expanding again with the construction of a new Cultural Hub, designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and built by contractor Ellis Don.

Humber College cultural hub unites a mix of steel, mass timber and concrete

By Dan O'Reilly | October 01, 2021 | Originally Appeared in ConstructConnect Canada

Designed to achieve LEED Platinum and intended to offer a wide range of film, media and performance facilities, the Cultural Hub Complex under construction at Humber College’s Lakeshore campus in Toronto is being heralded by the college as a project that will transform the campus, “into a destination for arts and culture.”

10 Toronto green buildings to get excited about Cultural Hub at Humber College: Etobicoke’s new cathedral for the arts

By Barry Chong | May 04, 2021 | Originally Appeared in MaRS magazine

Humber College was seeking a world-class arts-and-culture facility for its students and local community. The vision: a Cultural Hub, rich with theatres, labs, studios and shared spaces, as well as tributes to Indigenous culture and environmentalism.

Humber College in Toronto is getting a breathtaking new cultural hub

By Tanya Mok | August 23, 2020 | Originally Appeared in blogTO

Humber College's Lakeshore Campus is getting a huge new development that will bring new student residences, two new performing arts venues, and several new learning spaces to the grounds.

The new Cultural Hub, which is being designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and built by Ellis Don, is one of numerous expansion and renovation projects for Humber's overall campus plan.

Building a green and interactive arts destination for Toronto

By | February 28, 2020 | Originally Appeared in The Globe and Mail

Bringing together intentional design and green building practices at a strategically significant location will enable a new hub to become a destination for art in Toronto. It will also boost the engagement between community and industry partners and the Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning.