Caroline Robbie

Principal North America

T: T +1 416 598 1240
E: caroline.robbie@bdp.com

Caroline is a principal, co-head of the media environments team and head of the interiors team in our Northern American studios.

She aims to achieve solutions to design challenges using a wider lens, approaching her work through a perspective that is grounded in art. In this way, Caroline is able to see the conceptual narrative in all of her projects. Born into a creative family, with an artist mother and architect father, her aesthetic was formed by an early exposure to how built form and the decorative arts affect one’s quality of life.

She has led teams on a number of design-forward and award-winning projects including the Deluxe studios in Toronto, Los Angeles and New York, Artscape Daniels Launchpad, OCAD U CO along with the Corus Entertainment workplace, 60 Atlantic Avenue and its sister site, 80 Atlantic in Liberty Village and BDP Toronto’s own studio. Her role as a thought-leader in the industry and in the workplace is strengthened by conceptual design installations at major exhibitions and industry events.

Caroline is a former director and board member for Ontario and Canada’s professional associations for interior design as well as serving on the board of the Toronto Arts Foundation and the Advisory Board for Creative Cities International based in New York City. She has over 40 years' experience in the industry internationally as a former director of Alsop Architects Ltd.

We design spaces that are enabling the creation of content that drives the industry. A delicate balance of design excellence, technical integration and acoustic performance is necessary for facilities to be magnets for high value talent.

Projects

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Sportsnet Studios

When Canadian telecom giant Rogers Communications moved to consolidate their Sportsnet studios at their main campus in downtown Toronto, BDP Quadrangle designed a new space dedicated to the iconic Hockey Night in Canada programming.

First Studio City

First Studio City will provide much needed production space for the film and television industry with ten sound stages and associated facilities that can support up to two feature films at a time.

Corus Entertainment

Eight-storey commercial office tenant fit-out for media brands with atrium, waterfront access and green roof.

Basin Media Hub

Stemming from a CreateTO competition, Basin Media Hub is a television and digital media production studio with a secure and reconfigurable six-stage studio complex as well as an additional 23,000 sf sound stage, addressing content providers’ skyrocketing demand for production space.

Hamilton Film Studios

This mixed-use development featuring a creative industries hub is being planned for the Tiffany Barton lands in Hamilton.

Rogers Centre of Excellence

Architectural design of broadcast facility including central server/rack rooms, master control and signal monitoring facilities, edit suites, engineering/IT service space, open office meeting rooms, kitchenette and staff amenities.

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Deluxe Toronto

Deluxe occupies a three-storey space in a renovated 1990s data centre that contains open concept workspaces, a welcoming atrium and highly specialised post-production facilities for movies and videos.

Stereo D

In stark contrast to the widely accepted design principle of the democratisation of light, Stereo D is a 3D conversion studio with open workspaces that need to be nearly dark to facilitate rendering.

House of Cool

House of Cool, an animation company with a unique niche in digital storyboards, lives up to its name in its new home at the Toronto Waterfront Daniels City of the Arts.

Artscape Daniels Launchpad

Artscape offices plus workshop spaces alongside new events space, meeting rooms, kitchen and common spaces.

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Pinewood Toronto Studios

An iconic office building symbolising Toronto as a leader in the film industry, this four-storey office and production building was developed to support a large scale studio complex.

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299 Queen Street West

An iconic heritage building repurposed as the headquarters of the CHUM television empire, 299 Queen Street West served as both a content-producing centre for multiple channels and a social hub for fans and viewers.

Allan Slaight Radio Institute

This radio complex at the heart of Ryerson University’s Rogers Communication Centre contains state of the art broadcasting equipment arranged in an intimate classroom setting.

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IMAX

An overall rebranding and refreshing of the IMAX office, lobby and common spaces was undertaken following a 200 seat state of the art testing theatre was added.

News

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Seven new principals for BDP

17/01/2022

We have announced that seven of our studio directors have been promoted to principals.

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