W Hotels Worldwide, a luxury hotel chain by Marriott, has opened a new location in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood. The hotel's interior design revives the city experience as a series of “mises en scene,” settings...
Tag: Design
Halifax architect appointed to Order of Canada
(02/14/2023)
Halifax architect, Brian MacKay-Lyons, a founding partner of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd., has been appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions to architecture, reverent of Nova Scotia culture.
Ware Malcomb, an international architecture and engineering firm has opened its third Canadian office in Ottawa, and John Holland, an experienced architect, has joined the firm as regional director to lead the new office.
Hopital du Sacre-Cœur-de-Montreal's (HSCM's) L-shaped addition to its historic building borrows the masonry of the original building and combines it with a modern curtainwall system to maximize access to natural light.
The expansion of Conestoga College’s North Campus has added a four-storey structure to University Avenue in Waterloo, Ontario, acting as a gateway to passersby and showcasing the school’s culinary and hospitality program.
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.
Boston University’s new centre for Computing & Data Sciences is a 32,050-m2 (345,000-sf), 19-storey vertical building, designed in a stacked format, enveloped with patterned glazing, rising over the banks of the Charles River, dramatically...
University of Toronto’s newest research centre—consisting of cross-disciplinary university academics and 12 construction and architecture companies—will find ways to meet the urgent and growing need for infrastructure, without compounding the negative environmental impact.
Set against Mont-Tremblant National Park, within the Devil’s River valley, Que., the Farouche agrotourism site, minimalist in essence, makes the most of the natural and untamed qualities of the territory.
Essential structural considerations in roof design
(01/06/2023)
Design professionals often work in isolation, with each discipline (architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical) doing their own thing and only getting together after they have completed most of their individual design contribution to co-ordinate...
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