2KTA project — mixed-use residential building
Selected Work · 2008–2026
Toronto Established 2008 Now serving the Bay Area

Architecture for the way people actually live.

For 17+ years, 2KTA Architects has been shaping mixed-use towers, thoughtful residential homes, and institutional spaces — synagogues, long-term care, shelters, sport facilities — that respect how a community uses them. Toronto-rooted. Now bringing that body of work to the Bay Area.

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17+ Years in practice
60+ Projects delivered
TO → SF Toronto · Bay Area
Est. 2008 Formerly EKAM Architects
Commercial + Residential Mixed-use, institutional, homes
Sustainability-Focused Planned from day one
Now serving the Bay Area San Jose, California
Selected Work · 01

Recent work.

A cross-section of what 2KTA has built — towers and homes, places of worship and places of care. Each project is a study in how a space will actually be used by the people who walk through it every day.

2KTA project — Jewel Condos mixed-use tower
01 / Featured Mixed-Use Tower · Barrie

Jewel Condos

A 38-storey condominium tower designed as a vertical neighbourhood — ground-floor retail, shared amenity floors, and residential homes that feel grounded in the community below.

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2KTA project — Christie House mixed-use rental
02 Mixed-Use · Toronto

Christie House

8-storey mixed-use rental building — purpose-built rental homes above active street-level retail in Toronto's west end.

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2KTA project — Beth JL Synagogue worship space
03 Institutional · Toronto

Beth JL Synagogue

4-storey worship space with an integrated daycare — a building that serves congregation and community across generations.

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2KTA project — Halton Sport Centre complex
04 Sport Facility · Georgetown

Halton Sport Centre

A 15,000 sqft sport complex designed for multi-program use — courts, training space, and community gathering under a single, light-filled roof.

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2KTA project — The Point Municipal Shelter
05 Institutional · Scarborough

The Point Municipal Shelter

A 2-storey, 90-bed shelter built on the principle that dignity in design is non-negotiable, regardless of who the building serves.

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2KTA project — Rouge River mixed-use building
06 Mixed-Use · Richmond Hill

Rouge River Mixed-Use

A 12-storey mid-rise with ground-level commercial and residential above — designed for a corner that anchors the street.

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Process · 02

How we work.

Three principles shape every project — from a single-family home in Leaside to a 38-storey tower in Barrie. We listen first, design for the long term, and stay through completion.

Listen first.

Before we sketch a line, we sit with the people who will use the space. Owners, tenants, staff, congregants, residents. The building has to work for them — not for us.

  • Stakeholder interviews and site walks
  • Program development based on actual use
  • Zoning, code, and feasibility studies
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Design for longevity.

Sustainability isn't an add-on at the end. It's how we orient the site, choose materials, plan envelopes, and design systems — so buildings perform well for decades.

  • Passive design and envelope performance
  • Material specifications that age well
  • Aesthetics that won't date in 10 years
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Deliver with care.

We don't hand off drawings and walk away. We're with you through permitting, tender, construction administration, and handover — because that's where buildings actually get built.

  • Permit and approvals coordination
  • Tender support and contractor selection
  • Construction administration through completion
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2KTA project — residential development

From the studio archive · 2008–2026

Our story · 03

Seventeen years of work, moving west.

2KTA Architects was founded in 2008 in Toronto under the name EKAM Architects. Over seventeen years, the studio has shaped a portfolio that spans almost everything a city needs — mixed-use towers and ground-level housing, places of worship and places of care, sport facilities and shelters.

The thread through all of it is the same: design that takes seriously how people actually use a building. Not how it photographs, not how it competes in awards — how it serves a neighbourhood for thirty, fifty, eighty years.

In 2026, we're bringing that body of work to the Bay Area. New geography, new climate, new clients — but the same studio, the same principles, and the same insistence on getting the everyday details right.

"Seventeen years of work to share with a new community."
2KTA Architects · Toronto · San Jose
Why 2KTA · 04

What you get when you work with us.

Four things to know about working with 2KTA — what we bring to a project that a generalist firm or a brand-new practice typically can't.

Mixed-use expertise others lack.

Stacking residential, retail, parking, and amenity in a single building is its own discipline. We've delivered enough of these — from 8-storey mid-rise to 38-storey tower — that we know where the friction points live and how to design around them.

Institutional credibility.

Long-term care, worship spaces, municipal shelters — these projects come with extra regulatory weight, sensitivity to user need, and accountability. Our portfolio in this work speaks for itself: Belleville LTC, Kensington Seniors, Beth JL, The Point Shelter.

Sustainability isn't a buzzword.

We plan environmental performance from day one — siting, massing, envelope, mechanical strategy. Not because it sells the building, but because the buildings have to outperform the ones built next to them in twenty years.

Toronto roots, Bay Area presence.

Two markets, one studio. The discipline and code rigor of Canadian practice combined with the fresh eyes of a firm new to the Bay Area — bringing perspective rather than just adding to the local crowd.

In their words · 05

From the people we build for.

Developers, institutional clients, and homeowners on what it's like to work with 2KTA from first sketch through ribbon cutting.

"Their drawings carried the project through approvals on the first review cycle — and the building they helped us deliver still leases at a premium five years in. They understood the development pro forma as well as the architecture."

David Mehta
Principal · Condo developer · Barrie

"Long-term care isn't a building type many firms get right. 2KTA sat with our care staff before they sketched anything. The result is a facility our residents actually want to live in — and our staff can actually run."

Rachel Sutherland
Executive Director · LTC operator · Belleville

"We hired them for a custom home in Leaside and they treated it with the same rigor they bring to their commercial work. Detail-oriented, calm under change orders, and the finished house works in ways we hadn't even thought to ask for."

Jordan & Priya Liang
Private residence · Leaside, Toronto
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