
Junction Craft Brewery
Junction Craft Brewery’s new head office contains a brewery, taproom, retail space, and office space in ‘the Destructor’, an industrial incinerator completed during R. C. Harris’s tenure as the City of Toronto’s Commissioner of Works. This renovation preserves the base building’s art deco design and industrial character, as well as the palimpsest of graffiti that the Destructor subsequently acquired after being decommissioned and abandoned, when it lapsed into intermittent use as a raves venue. The renovation also adapts the space for the brewery’s technically demanding production. Industrial processes from brewing to packaging are showcased within the large volume, which is fronted with bar and retail space. Designed to do double duty as an events venue, the brewery has hosted gatherings ranging from rock concerts to catered private parties – including more than 30 weddings within the first two years of the building’s radical repurposing.











