--- title: "PLANT Architect Inc. — Architects & Building Designers | Houzz" canonical_html_url: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/plant-architect-inc-pfvwus-pf~1863112468 markdown_url: https://www.houzz.com/md/professionals/pf~1863112468.md entity_type: LocalBusiness business_name: "PLANT Architect Inc." category: ["Architects"] image: https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/e0a3fe20035e690e_6437-w400-h400-b0-p0--.jpg address: "Suite 500, 317 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ontario M5V 1P9, Canada" latitude: 43.6435 longitude: -79.3938 phone: "(416) 979-2012" website: http://www.branchplant.com rating: 0 review_count: 0 best_of_houzz_awards: 5 followers: 79 last_updated: 2026-09-04 --- # PLANT Architect Inc. Original Houzz profile: [PLANT Architect Inc.](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/plant-architect-inc-pfvwus-pf~1863112468) ## Professional summary - **Primary category:** Architects - **Location:** Toronto, ON - **Serves:** Toronto - **Houzz rating:** 0.0 out of 5 (0 reviews) - **Best of Houzz:** 5 awards (2021–2026), for Design. ## About ### Houzz Badges - 10,000 Ideabook Saves PLANT Architect is an award-winning practice that branches into the domains of architecture, landscape, and design. The studio operates across spatial scales and disciplinary borders to reveal a site's potential, distill client-needs into a clear design vision, and create timeless spaces that heighten one's experience of a site, city, building, or natural landscape. ### Services Provided - Architectural Design - Architectural Drawings - House Plans - Home Additions - Floor Plans - Project Management - Garage Design - Landscape Plans ### Areas Served - Toronto ## Business Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Business Name | PLANT Architect Inc. | | Address | Suite 500, 317 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ontario M5V 1P9, Canada | | Phone | (416) 979-2012 | | Website | http://www.branchplant.com | | License Number | 5181 | | Followers on Houzz | 79 | **Social profiles:** - X (Twitter) — https://twitter.com/plantarch - Blog — http://blog.branchplant.com ## Contact - **Houzz profile:** [PLANT Architect Inc.](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/plant-architect-inc-pfvwus-pf~1863112468) - **Website:** http://www.branchplant.com - **Phone:** (416) 979-2012 ## Credentials **Certifications & Awards** - PLANT Architect has won almost fifty national and international awards, including major international design competitions. Our team includes OAA, OALA, CSLA, BCSLA, and LEED AP certified architects, landscape architects, and designers. - **Best of Houzz:** 5 awards (2021–2026), for Design. ## Selected projects - [First Avenue Kitchen](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/first-avenue-kitchen-pj-vj~7794410) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 12 - [Helena Garage](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/helena-garage-pj-vj~7794429) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 16 - [Gwynne Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/gwynne-garden-pj-vj~7794420) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 12 - Description: After long renting out this narrow Victorian house, the owner moved back into it. He wanted order and cohesion restored to the front and back gardens, which had become overgrown, and an outdoor space that could function as a warm-weather office and also host dinner parties. To maximize the tiny rear yard’s utility, PLANT divided it into three zones: a patio next to the house with a built-in covered seat; a middle zone where the patio narrows to a pathway between planting beds; and at the back, a… - [Bennington Heights Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/bennington-heights-garden-pj-vj~7419474) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 16 - Description: This modernist, corner-lot house is situated in a well-established residential district, across the street from a ravine crest. The owners wanted the garden that fills the lot’s northeast corner and extends west along the garage to be a secluded oasis, suitable for relaxation and entertaining. The kitchen, dining area, and main bedroom all have floor-to-ceiling views across the new wood deck to a heritage elm tree at the yard’s rear corner. Curved, overlapping, concrete retaining walls with inte… - [Alcina Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/alcina-garden-pj-vj~7419462) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 10 - Description: A young family had recently completed a major home renovation that opened up expansive views to their rear garden. They asked us to redesign this landscape as a series of zones that would optimize views and support multiple uses. Closest to the house, we inserted a multi-level dining/entertaining zone: its ipe wood deck with planter-integrated bench seating steps down to a flagstone patio. A pathway that combines existing irregular flagstones with new rectilinear pavers extends to the back of th… - [King's Landing Apartment](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/king-s-landing-apartment-pj-vj~7419354) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 20 - Description: PLANT had renovated the owners’ previous residence, a three-storey Victorian house. When they downsized into a 1980s condominium building on Toronto’s waterfront, they wanted to re-imagine their unit’s dated interior in a way that would accommodate their book collection, complement their art collection, and support their love of cooking for themselves and guests. Previously, the large foyer, which wraps in an L-shape around the kitchen, was under-utilized space. This entry sequence is now the li… - [Pendrith Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/pendrith-residence-pj-vj~6994910) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 17 - Description: Our clients sought light-filled, cohesive, unfussy space for themselves and their two young children, with better connectivity to their back garden. We replaced a small, tacked-on mudroom with a highly functional yet polished space that combines ample concealed storage with with bench seating, in-floor heating, and a slate floor. This new mudroom opens onto an outdoor dining area, which steps down to an Eramosa limestone patio. On the second floor, the mudroom addition made it possible to add a… - [First Avenue Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/first-avenue-residence-pj-vj~6595294) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 22 - Description: Nearly a decade after we designed First Avenue Garden, the owners selected us to renovate the interior of their home. This three-storey 19th-century building was originally a dairy. In the 1980s it was vertically subdivided into three narrow townhouse units. Our clients, who own the corner unit, asked us to renovate their space in a way that would expand its apparent width, while providing great (and space-efficient) display space for their contemporary art collection. Along with the interior re… - [First Avenue Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/first-avenue-garden-pj-vj~531840) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 7 - Description: This small garden fronts a repurposed nineteenth-century industrial property. We designed a lounge area, seating, dining facilities, a BBQ, storage space, bicycle access and storage, privacy screen, plantings and the main entry to the house. The solution is a simple garden plan with three distinct zones: a cooking and storage area, a lounging and dining area, and a concealed garden to look at through the apartment’s large interior side window. All three of these areas are surrounded by under-sto… - [Westminster Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/westminster-residence-pj-vj~531482) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 17 - Description: This project involved the replacement of an existing rear addition with a new two-storey addition, interior renovations, and a redesign of the garden. The exterior of the new addition is characterized by a mix of dark and light-stained cedar siding, detailed copper flashing, siding and scuppers, and bright orange accents at the entrance – a theme that is continued throughout the house. The new addition houses the main bathroom and an intimate deck at the second floor, a bright open sunroom and r… - [Airdrie Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/airdrie-residence-pj-vj~6093118) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 11 - [Airdrie Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/airdrie-garden-pj-vj~6995574) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 22 - Description: Shortly after PLANT had completed a renovation and expansion of the Airdrie Residence, the owners asked us to redesign the rear garden, side edge, and new front entry landscapes. The owners wanted the large backyard area to provide a balance between openness and the intimacy of being surrounded by plants in a courtyard enclave. Globe thistles, hydrangeas, grasses, and other perennials selected to provide year-round visual interest ring the flagstone-strewn central lawn and extend to the corners.… - [Booth Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/booth-residence-pj-vj~6093045) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 18 - [St. Anne's Road Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/st-anne-s-road-garden-pj-vj~6026761) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 12 - Description: Three generations of one family live in a semi-detached house on an urban hillcrest that drops off sharply in their backyard. They wanted an enclosed, courtyard-like rear garden that would enable them to use as much of the slope as possible and provide some privacy on a tightly constrained site. Wood structures occupy significantly more area than the planting beds on this small, sloping lot. These structures perform multiple storage functions and create distinct areas – the dining area, the brid… - [Bloor Street Apartment](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/bloor-street-apartment-pj-vj~7419329) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 15 - Description: Although renovations to two one-bedroom 1980s condos on Toronto’s Bloor Street ‘Mink Mile’ involved extensive updates to lighting and finishes, lifestyle changes were the real drivers on this project. Many of the building’s residents now work from home regularly or on occasion, and they may also have children who live with them part-time. The design of the existing units felt too compartmentalized and lacked flexibility. Previously, each unit’s kitchen was a cramped, windowless space close to th… - [Beaty Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/beaty-residence-pj-vj~7419315) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 9 - Description: This renovation and addition transformed an early-20th-century house into three living units: a two-storey apartment on the top two floors; a ground-floor apartment; and a basement unit containing the professional kitchen used by one of the owners, who is a caterer. Although the project entailed substantial changes to the interior and at the rear, from the street the house still ‘reads’ as a single-family home. At the rear, the second and third levels are pulled back from the corner – a move tha… - [Helena Ave Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/helena-ave-residence-pj-vj~7419284) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 16 - Description: Key objectives in this renovation and addition included expanding the ground-floor living space and opening it up to the garden, and enlarging and reconfiguring the master bedroom suite. Prior to the redesign, a brick fireplace extending up to the ceiling filled one corner of the garden-facing wall; the frames around french doors and a bay window further impeded views to the garden. We removed the existing back wall, extended the house into the garden, and glazed most of the new rear wall. To in… - [Bennington Heights Ravine One](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/bennington-heights-ravine-one-pj-vj~7419277) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 10 - Description: The project was initiated after a massive slope failure at the site during the floods of 2013, which left the corner of the house and most of the rear garden structurally and geotechnically compromised. Initially, emergency works were required to protect the house and property. Changes made to the property and ravine landscape include a terraced retaining wall with an upper deck and staircase, as well as decks out in the trees of the ravine, patios, plantings, and a rain garden. The design prese… - [Dilworth Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/dilworth-residence-pj-vj~6093076) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 9 - Description: This renovation of a semi-detached house on a corner lot refreshes an older home and incorporates many different types of built-in storage. - [Admiral Road Garden](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/admiral-road-garden-pj-vj~7419263) - Location: Toronto, ON - Photos: 15 - Description: The owners wanted a front garden that would complement and subtly refresh their classic Edwardian home, and a rear garden that would be a haven for their young family. At the front, the asymmetry of the planting beds flanking the stone walkway offsets the agrarian simplicity of rows of perennials and grasses running parallel to the house. At the rear, the challenge was to highlight a magnificent silver maple, while deflecting attention from the blank concrete-block wall of the commercial buildin… [See all 47 projects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/plant-architect-inc-pfvwus-pf~1863112468) ## Ideabooks - [Kitchens](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26839959/list/kitchens) — 47 ideas - [Fences](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26904397/list/fences) — 22 ideas - [Outdoor Dining](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26899810/list/outdoor-dining) — 35 ideas - [Featured on Houzz](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/134814484/list/featured-on-houzz) — 4 ideas - [Decks](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26840540/list/decks) — 29 ideas - [Additions](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26901906/list/additions) — 10 ideas - [Exterior Façades](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26840113/list/exterior-fa-ades) — 20 ideas - [Entries](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26840292/list/entries) — 19 ideas - [Stairs](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26839996/list/stairs) — 18 ideas - [Gardens](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26901070/list/gardens) — 51 ideas - [Patios](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26840548/list/patios) — 41 ideas - [Backyards](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26840514/list/backyards) — 66 ideas - [Sunrooms](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26901884/list/sunrooms) — 3 ideas - [Outdoor Lighting](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26901473/list/outdoor-lighting) — 8 ideas - [Pools](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26839820/list/pools) — 17 ideas - [Interiors](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26840334/list/interiors) — 26 ideas - [Front Yards](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26839935/list/front-yards) — 10 ideas - [Outdoor Furnture](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26901093/list/outdoor-furnture) — 10 ideas - [Edible Gardens](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26901967/list/edible-gardens) — 8 ideas - [Dining Spaces](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/26840201/list/dining-spaces) — 8 ideas [See all 23 ideabooks](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/users/plantarch) ## Community Q&A **Q: Do you know the dimension of the homework area? Thanks** *(in Photo Questions)* A: Overall desk length: 8'-10" Overall work area (floor area and desk from edge of stairs): approx. 5'-9" deep and 7'-1" wide. --- *Source: Houzz professional profile. Reflects the profile as of 2026-09-04.*