Canada

Remai Modern art museum is a stack of metal and glass blocks in the Canadian Prairies

November 7, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Toronto-based KPMB Architects has built a riverside art museum in Saskatoon, which is designed in response to the flat plains that surround the Canadian city. The 126,000-square-foot (approximately 11,705 square metres) Remai Modern opened to the public last month. It provides a new home for over 7,500 art works from the collection of the Mendel Art Gallery

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Remai Modern art museum is a stack of metal and glass blocks in the Canadian Prairies

November 7, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Toronto-based KPMB Architects has built a riverside art museum in Saskatoon, which is designed in response to the flat plains that surround the Canadian city. The 126,000-square-foot (approximately 11,705 square metres) Remai Modern opened to the public last month. It provides a new home for over 7,500 art works from the collection of the Mendel Art Gallery

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Glazed atrium connects white sides of Halifax home by Omar Gandhi Architect

November 2, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Halifax-based Omar Gandhi Architect has built a three-storey home in the city, featuring two white-clad volumes with a double-height space sandwiched in the middle. Syncline is located in the south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and sits adjacent to Point Pleasant Park with views overlooking the city’s Northwest Arm inlet. The residence is named after a

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Glazed atrium connects white sides of Halifax home by Omar Gandhi Architect

November 2, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Halifax-based Omar Gandhi Architect has built a three-storey home in the city, featuring two white-clad volumes with a double-height space sandwiched in the middle. Syncline is located in the south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and sits adjacent to Point Pleasant Park with views overlooking the city’s Northwest Arm inlet. The residence is named after a

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StudioAC inserts plywood unit complete with dog bed into Toronto home

October 31, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

A sleeping area for the family dog is the focal point of this house in Toronto, which Canadian architecture firm StudioAC renovated using a plywood insertion to add storage space. The two-storey Sheridan Residence, measuring 1,500 square metres (139 square feet), was fully renovated by the local firm. They added a unit built from plywood

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StudioAC inserts plywood unit complete with dog bed into Toronto home

October 31, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

A sleeping area for the family dog is the focal point of this house in Toronto, which Canadian architecture firm StudioAC renovated using a plywood insertion to add storage space. The two-storey Sheridan Residence, measuring 1,500 square metres (139 square feet), was fully renovated by the local firm. They added a unit built from plywood

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StudioAC inserts plywood unit complete with dog bed into Toronto home

October 31, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

A sleeping area for the family dog is the focal point of this house in Toronto, which Canadian architecture firm StudioAC renovated using a plywood insertion to add storage space. The two-storey Sheridan Residence, measuring 1,500 square metres (139 square feet), was fully renovated by the local firm. They added a unit built from plywood

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Anik Péloquin creates contemporary addition for historic cottage in rural Quebec

October 30, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Montreal architect Anik Péloquin has built an angular extension to a quaint cottage in Canada, with an off-kilter roof and white-washed interiors. The project titled The Sisters, or Les Soeurs in French, involved creating more space for a Canadian house built in the 1930s. The owners purchased the cottage six years ago, and lived there

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Undulating balconies to wrap 3XN’s condos on Toronto waterfront

October 30, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Danish firm 3XN has won a competition to build a residential complex in Toronto, which will comprise a pair of tower peaks covered in rippling terraces based on the waves of the nearby lake. Developers Tridel and Hines organised the contest for the condominium as part of its transformation of the East Bayfront, a former industrial

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