Hamilton City Council has approved development plans for a waterfront development, Block 16, in the Pier 8 community, after years of extensive community engagement and collaboration between Waterfront Shores Corporation (Waterfront Shores) and the city.
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The defining feature at The Leaf, an innovative horticultural attraction nestled within Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, is its sprawling curved roof, made of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) for improved thermal performance and sustainability.
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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, alongside Gregg Lintern, the city’s chief planner, and members of the design and development community, recently celebrated the recipients of the biennial Toronto Urban Design Awards. Notable winners included firms such as Diamond Schmitt, Studio JCI, DTAH, and KPMB Architects.
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The Harrison McCain Pavilion, an addition to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery—a Fredericton, New Brunswick, landmark—has been designed as a modern take on the existing architecture, with the goal of creating a public space fostering engagement and community.
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CANstruction Toronto build took place on May 15 and the completed “Canstructures” were judged by a jury and winners were announced at an evening reception on May 16.
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Indeed, as a project matures, it becomes increasingly difficult, as well as costly, to make effective changes to the performance. In response to this need, KPMB LAB, the research and innovation group at KPMB Architects, has developed a basic energy modelling tool for internal use on projects. This article discusses how the tool works, how it relates to more comprehensive energy modelling software, and how it can be useful to an architect during concept and schematic design phases.
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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 re-shaping Boston’s skyline.
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Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) contest’s winning design, by KPMB Architects + Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker, pays deference to the sensitive history of holocaust while organizing its space in a way to closely integrate with its surrounding urban context.
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The Montreal Holocaust Museum has selected the design concept of KPMB Architects + Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker as the winner of a competition to develop its new museum.
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The joint venture of Stantec and KPMB Architects is providing architectural design services for the planning phase of the Hospital for Sick Children’s (SickKids’) 10-plus year campus redevelopment, Project Horizon.
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