The plan for Ādisōke in Ottawa, to serve as the main public library in the city and Canada’s national library, draws inspiration from the Ottawa River, with its stone and wood exterior mirroring the escarpment and the natural surroundings. Meanwhile the city’s breathtaking views will be showcased through expansive windows and transparent walls.
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The design for the recently opened Montreal tattoo shop, BlackSwan Studio, embraces a combination of subtlety and distinction, redefining the conventionally held notion about the “intimidating” tattoo parlour.
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AURA Invalides, blending creativity and technology to craft immersive experiences, represents a milestone in Montreal-based multimedia studio, Moment Factory’s professional history. The 50-minute show in Paris’s iconic Dôme des Invalides combines video mapping, lighting, music, and sound design to honour its historical heritage.
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A TCP is a document typically prepared by an experienced licensed engineer who is knowledgeable on the thermal behaviour of concrete. A TCP provides a foundation to ensure high thermal stresses and cracking of mass concrete will be avoided, and that its long-term durability will not be negatively affected.
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Co-authored by ZGF Architects (ZGF), Fast+Epp, EllisDon, and Lafarge, “Concrete: A Pragmatic Approach to Lowering Embodied Carbon,” is a free and publicly available technical guide that outlines strategies to reduce concrete’s impact in construction, which can be implemented with no or negligible added project cost.
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The passive-house retrofit of an almost half-century old auto garage in Eastern Townships, Quebec, has produced excellent energy efficiency results for the property, and will soon achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification.
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Intelligent City, an innovative urban housing company, combining mass timber construction, manufacturing automation, and software technology will collaborate with the Vancouver Native Housing Society (VNHS) to supply a Passive House facade system for VNHS’s highly anticipated nine-storey mass timber building.
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The Well, a sprawling mixed-use development in downtown Toronto’s core, blends retail, commercial, and residential spaces, in one unique centre relying on an efficient thermal energy system. It is slated to open this November.
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AECOM, a global infrastructure consulting firm, has been appointed by Metrolinx as technical advisor for the Hamilton Light Rail Transit (LRT) project, a 14-km (8.7-miles) transit line in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Équipe Laurence, an engineering firm based in Quebec, recently received two prestigious awards for its innovative energy-saving technology, dubbed “cloacothermie” at the awards ceremony, in the design of its Ste-Adèle head office.
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