emerging talent

Whereas architects are often apprehensive about too many voices informing a project, dialogue is fundamental to how Pivot works, internally and externally.

A significant amount of the work involves projects designed to meet passive house quality control standards, or ventures that lean heavily on passive house…

Santa Ana's own life experience tested his desire and ambition to excel in architecture; he sees the same drive reflected in other new immigrants.

A decade after its founding, VFA is a 10-person firm specializing in single-family and low-rise multi-unit residential architecture.

“We’re tasked with doing much more with much less.”

Gil Hardy and Charles Laurence Proulx met when they were architecture students at the University of Montreal. Their love for music brought them to work…

Suulin Architects is an emerging practice with an impressive back story. When its future principals met in New York City, Amy Lin was an associate working for…

While most practices believe in the power of collaboration, the singular vision of founders almost always results in a hierarchical assignment of…

Architects Marc Blouin and Catherine Orzes work in the bustling metropolis of Montreal. But, says Blouin, they are constantly “in a Northern state of mind.”…

Former work colleagues and long-time friends Tracey Mactavish and Asher deGroot founded MOTIV Architects in 2017. The socially minded Vancouver-based firm is…

Nine Yards Studio, based in Charlottetown, PEI, is headed by an unlikely duo. Silva Stojak, an architect in her 50s, studied architecture in Sarajevo and…

“We always ask ourselves, ‘Is this going to be fun?’ If there’s any doubt, we don’t take the project.” With all seriousness, François Martineau, a.k.a. Frank,…

Since opening Phaedrus Studio in 2015, David Grant-Rubash and Tyler Malone have struck a balance that takes many firms years—if not decades—to achieve:…

For Anne-Marie Armstrong and Andrew Ashey, collaboration, advocacy, and diversity are the way forward for architecture. Since starting AAmp Studio in…

Shane Laptiste and Tura Cousins Wilson met as early participants in the Black Architects and Interior Designers Association of Canada (BAIDA). They’re now…

“What’s new?” is a default question. But for Toronto’s Giaimo, “What can we do with what already exists?” is a more interesting line of enquiry. Founded in…