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10 years ago this month police descended on Toronto to terrorize the city, culminating in the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. An access to info request revealed @onespaceunlmtd as the architects of the detention centre at Eastern Ave. #G20 
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Police kidnapped 1105 people and "processed" them at the EADC. Behind closed doors, abuse was rampant: People were beaten, subjected to sexual abuse, denied medication, legal aid. Let's be clear, this facility was designed by architects and their office has a name: One Space.
The TPS are frequent clients of @onespaceunlmtd. These firms who take police as clients and design these spaces need to be considered for what they are: Active in the violence of police brutality, themselves tools being used to suppress descent and kill minorities.
The access to information request contained a series of photos and documents from the planning and construction phases. These documents reveal premeditation. These documents reveal first acts of violence. This is design as state terror.
We are inundated with maddening images of live, brutal violence at the hands of police. The built infrastructure that services these crimes are the result of complicit designers choosing to weaponize the built environment. These designers too are guilty.
Where were you 10 years ago today? If you are Vaughn-based architecture and interior design office @onespaceunlmtd you would have been putting final touches on a facility meant to detain over 1000 people.
Architects of incarceration at Toronto's G20, @onespaceunlmtd continues to debase the practice of architecture.
Architects of detention @onespaceunlmtd are also designing facilities for @tdsb and other education providers in the GTA. How can we allow these bad actors to hold such responsibility? What spatial strategies are shared between projects for detention and for child care?
