Toronto is a city transformed. Since the turn of the millennium, Canada’s largest metropolis has introduced more high-rise residential density than any other on the continent, consistently topping lists of new towers and construction cranes, while forming the locus of one of North America’s fastest-growing urban regions. The manifestation of it all is palpable on the skyline — a swelling constellation of slender glass and steel towers that now dominate the postcard vista. But while the condo boom has conspicuously shaped the 21st-century city — and its politics — its architecture is a civic afterthought. Enter Peter Clewes.

Search the name “Peter Clewes” on AZURE’s website to yield a concise list of results: There are reviews of the architect’s reimagined Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (MOCA) and of Toronto’s Pan American Games Athletes Village, alongside a reflection on his controversial planned addition to Ottawa’s Château Laurier. Expand the search to find a handful of Clewes’s projects in Canadian Architect, including the Governor General’s Medal-winning Terrence Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto and the lauded scheme for the upcoming West Don Lands Block 8. What about the rest?