In Chester, an oceanside village on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, a 125-m2 (1,350-sf) upside-down house was realized for a woman living in Seattle, who wished to return to Canada. The minimal and modest home...
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In a historic move, the House of Commons unanimously approved Bill S-222, championed by MP Richard Cannings from South Okanagan-West Kootenay, British Columbia. This legislation promotes the use of wood-based construction materials to reduce...
The design for the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth’s (USAY’s) new headquarters in Calgary’s Forest Lawn neighbourhood highlights togetherness and privacy by making the centre’s spaces distinct and permeable between one another.
Harty House in Ajax, Ontario, is a residential renovation project designed by Toronto-based firm, Atelier SUN. The design overcomes the challenge of converting a builder home based on the mass-produced format into a minimal...
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...
Situated between an old logging road and a working hillside vineyard, a residence in North Hatley village, Quebec, embraces a key motif prevalent in the site’s agricultural setting to create a 47.2-m (155-ft) long,...
A team of students from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have built a near-zero embodied carbon building on campus using hempcrete, wood, and steel as primary materials.
A new air terminal in Rouyn-Noranda city in Quebec embraces the city’s identity as lying “between fault and forest” with wood, metal, and glass.
The interior design for the Montreal office of the American video game publisher, 2K, takes a creative approach by making the office resemble an elegant boutique hotel, rather than tech headquarters.
The S-Pace 1628 project, designed by architecture firm 1628 Inc., and located a few steps from Lake Memphremagog in Magog, Quebec, was created to house the company’s offices, as well as serve as a...
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