Deceptively simple in form, Calgary’s 17th Avenue Clinic’s articulation seeks to bring in light and enhance privacy and transparency. For its seemingly basic design, it has received a 2022 World Architecture Festival award.
Tag: Ceiling
Integrating Lighting into Specialty Ceilings
(11/21/2022)
When integrating lighting into standard ceiling solutions, such as grid, drywall, and open-to-structure ceilings, traditional luminaire form factors, including troffers, downlights, recessed linear, and suspended products, are common and relatively straightforward to integrate. However,...
Adaptive reuse of historic buildings has remained a consistent architectural trend over the past two decades and beyond, with open space being a centrepiece of the design as older factories and warehouses with open...
Milky’s, a Toronto café, officially opened its second location, Cloud Room, designed and built in a shipping container by newly founded Full Fat Studio.
Located 40 minutes from Vancouver, the City of Surrey’s Guildford Recreation Centre is now 10,405 m2 (112,000 sf)—a growing facility for a growing community. The $38.6-million project included a larger fitness centre and lobby,...
Thermoformed plastic ceilings have been manufactured since the mid-20th century, and their utility has recently increased due to product innovations, rigorous testing, and certifications from leading building product evaluation services. The growing acceptance of...
Selecting the right ceiling for an office
(12/01/2014)
In the business world, how people work and interact is constantly changing, affecting how interior office spaces are designed and built. Ceilings play an essential role in providing a productive, creative environment. Architects, designers,...
When the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC)—home to events like Construct Canada and the CSC Toronto Chapter’s No Frills Tradeshow—decided to renovate its South Building, it sought replacement ceiling panels that offered both a...
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