Swallowfield Barn by MOTIV Architects

April 3, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Ema Peter Photography   Asher deGroot of MOTIV Architects has designed a modern barn in Langley, BC, Canada, for his parents who own a modest hobby farm. The simplicity of the barn’s form is intentionally reminiscent of traditional North American barns. It’s clad entirely in vertical Douglas fir siding, reclaimed from prior use […]

Swallowfield Barn by MOTIV Architects

April 3, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Ema Peter Photography   Asher deGroot of MOTIV Architects has designed a modern barn in Langley, BC, Canada, for his parents who own a modest hobby farm. The simplicity of the barn’s form is intentionally reminiscent of traditional North American barns. It’s clad entirely in vertical Douglas fir siding, reclaimed from prior use […]

Wide steps lead to lake from Quebec chalet by Bourgeois/Lechasseur

March 31, 2018 James Brillon 0

Broad wooden steps lead from the living space of this Quebec residence, by local architects Bourgeois Lechasseur, down to the shores of Lac St-François. The L’Accostée home was built above the foundations of an existing chalet that the owners had been using for a long time, but had outgrown. “They decided to rebuild while preserving

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Welcome centre for Quebec heritage site rises from the landscape

March 29, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

A stone-filled gabion wall runs along one side of this green-roofed visitors pavilion by architect Anne Carrier, which emerges from a slope at a heritage site in Canada. The Welcome Pavilion is for Seigneurie des Aulnaies – a Quebec cultural heritage site notable for its Victorian estate with a manor house, mill and gardens. Located

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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners reveals visuals for new Toronto skyscraper

March 26, 2018 India Block 0

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has released the first visualisations of The HUB, a skyscraper that will “hover” above a historic building in Toronto, Canada. Renders show an external steel structure supporting the building and allowing it to cantilever over the Toronto Harbour Commission Building, a six storey building erected on the site in 1917. “Our

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Naturehumaine enlivens mid-century Montreal house with plant-covered wall

March 23, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

A sliding screen offers glimpses to the living room beneath this plant-filled wall, which architecture firm Nauturehumaine has added to a 1940s house in Montreal. The local studio renovated the mid-century property in the Canadian city’s residential Outremont borough for a couple and their two children. At the request of the wife, who works in the

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Naturehumaine enlivens mid-century Montreal house with plant-covered wall

March 23, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

A sliding screen offers glimpses to the living room beneath this plant-filled wall, which architecture firm Nauturehumaine has added to a 1940s house in Montreal. The local studio renovated the mid-century property in the Canadian city’s residential Outremont borough for a couple and their two children. At the request of the wife, who works in the

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Grimshaw creates curved mirrored ceiling inside Toronto metro station

March 21, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Grimshaw Architects has completed the latest station for the expanded Toronto subway system, with a huge curved roof that swoops down to form walls and is covered in mirrors underneath. Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC) Station acts as the new terminus of the Toronto Transit Commission’s 1 train line, which was recently extended north. Designed by global firm

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Female co-working club Make Lemonade opens in Toronto

March 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Phone booths with grassy carpets, a floral mural, and rose-pink and lemon-yellow furniture feature in this women-only co-working club in Toronto, designed by locally based MMNT Studio. Launched in September 2017, Make Lemonade provides 3,000 square feet (278 square metres) of workspace just for women in the Canadian city’s Downtown area. It was founded by Rachel

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