Mathison Hall at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business is now open.
Tag: Timber
Atelier L’Abri has introduced the Kanata Cabin, a silver-clad rental home in the Canadian Laurentians of Mont-Tremblant, Que. The 60-m2 (650-sf) single-bedroom cottage, affectionately named “La Niche,” embodies simplicity and elegance in its design,...
A rigorous conservation process, focused on improving building envelope performance, seismic resiliency, and accessibility, has brought new life to a 1930s church. The restoration has received the Vancouver Heritage Award from the city.
The Nancy Pauw Bridge, a recently erected footbridge over the Bow River, connecting Central Park to the Banff Recreation Grounds in Alberta, amplifies the beauty of the Rocky Mountain landscape, with minimal impacts to...
Insulated concrete forms (ICFs) offer energy efficiency, comfort, safety, and faster construction, compared to the more traditional and labour-intensive carpenter hand-built timber forms. ICFS are becoming increasingly popular as architects and builders around the...
The design for the Dining and Operations Centre at the University of Toronto’s (U of T’s) Koffler Scientific Reserve (KSR) in King Township, Ontario, reimagines the future of school design by combining sustainability and...
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.
DIALOG’s plan for the River Valley Outdoor Activity Centre in Edmonton reveals reliance on heavy-timber construction in order to minimize its infrastructure’s embodied carbon, allowing the project to pursue Zero Carbon Building certification.
George Brown College will transform Toronto’s skyline with construction of one of the first mass-timber institutional buildings in Ontario.
DIALOG officially files for patent of HTFS
(12/14/2021)
The HTFS combines cross-laminated timber panels with steel and concrete to build high-rise towers with a reduced carbon footprint.
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