The health center, which aims to serve more than 90,000 local Indigenous people with a blend of Western and traditional medicine, marks the first phase of a planned Indigenous Hub in Toronto that will also include housing and retail. More than just a visual departure for Toronto architecture, which has favored glass towers and black obelisks, it heralds the emergence of a new class of Indigenous architects, whose work has become a primary driver of the city’s landscape after decades of exclusion from their chosen profession.