First Look: The Ace Hotel Toronto’s New Rooftop Bar Evangeline

When the lengthy-awaited Ace Hotel Toronto finally opened this summer, it turned an instantaneous cultural sensation (not to point out the address star of our September/October issue). Designed by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, the building is an impressive balance of brawny concrete and woodsy detailing, with its cantilevered foyer bar and sunken eating place both of those taking care of to sense simultaneously grand and intimate. 

But the popular downtown location even now has a different trick up its sleeve — all the way up on the 14th ground, to be actual. On Friday, the Ace Resort Toronto debuted its rooftop bar, Evangeline. An additional neighborhood establishment in the building, it supplies the finishing touch to a landmark architectural enterprise that can now be admired in its entirety.

Named after the 1st element-duration film to be designed in Canada, Evangeline appears destined to engage in an particularly popular position on the TIFF social calendar. That explained, Torontonians will be delighted to hear it also designs to host open up-to-all people DJ nights and dance parties all year extended, complementing a menu of snacks and tiny dishes by Patrick Kriss (of Michelin star-winning Alo fame).

As with the Ace Hotel Toronto’s other hospitality spaces, the 80-seat lounge feels as cosmopolitan as it does calming — portion downtown penthouse and section rural cabin. Functioning with Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, the Ace Hotel Group’s in-residence Atelier Ace design and style team developed a colour palette that conjures a walk in the woods on a crisp tumble working day, pairing muddy green hues with find hits of coppery pink.

Constructing on the hotel’s precast brick façade — itself a nod to 1 of Toronto’s signature creating components, showcased during a great deal of the city’s vernacular architecture — Evangeline’s two fireplaces sit underneath rows of vertical crimson bricks that further contribute to the space’s rustic warmth.

Brutalist accents keep on a further a single of the Ace Lodge Toronto’s principal motifs. Rugged concrete columns complement a pair of volumetric wall canvases by Montreal artist David Umemto, mounted right here on either side of the room’s northern fireplace.

These heavier components distinction the lounge’s light-weight wood ceilings and wooden-framed furnishings, produced all the extra inviting by their a bit vintage seem. A series of patterned rugs solidify the vibe of at ease domesticity.

An additional notably charming touch is the periscope-esque lights that extends down from the ceiling. In preserving with the Ace Hotel’s pattern of partnering with neighborhood designer-makers, the rooftop bar’s personalized fixtures have been made by Toronto studio MSDS.

The 50-seat indoor lounge is joined by a 30-seat outdoor patio that seems in excess of a row of grassy planters and out to Toronto’s at any time-evolving skyline.

Evangeline’s interior takes on an specially intimate ambiance arrive sunset, when its caramel tones really arrive to lifetime. And for these who display up a bit afterwards in the night, the shiny lights of the towers out the window introduce a different style of cinematic glow. For website visitors and locals alike, the cozy-satisfies-cosmoplitan area is a testament to Toronto’s special blend of the worldly, woodsy and whimsical.