Books as Building Stones: Historians’ Library and Residence, Cambridge, Ontario
A simple building, a complex client, and a deeply meaningful library
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Pearl in the Rough: Pearl Block, Victoria, BC
PROJECT Pearl Block, Victoria, British Columbia
ARCHITECT D’Arcy Jones Architects
TEXT Paul Koopman
PHOTOS Ema Peter Photography
A four-storey rowhouse…
Book Review: Almost, Not—The Architecture of Atelier Nishikata
What sleight of hand is required to create a richly comprehensive book, when the subject is just four small projects? Meticulous writing, excellent…
RAIC Emerging Practice Award Winner: Leckie Studio Architecture + Design
Vancouver-based Leckie Studio is a 20-person practice founded by architect Michael Leckie in 2015. The studio operates across a range of scales and…
RAIC Gold Medal Winner: Brigitte Shim and A. Howard Sutcliffe
Architects Brigitte Shim and A. Howard Sutcliffe, the founding partners of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, are designers of some of the finest architecture in…
RAIC Emerging Architect Award Winner: Anya Moryoussef
Architect Anya Moryoussef is the director and founder of Anya Moryoussef Architect (AM_A), a practice started in 2016. Her professional career includes…
Blythe Road Residence, Mississauga, Ontario
In a Scottish accent sanded down by nearly three decades of living in Toronto, architect Will Hudson promises we will see “some funny fish” in the…
Erickson’s Fuldauer House goes up for sale
A 1966 Erickson/Massey home is for sale in West Vancouver, the nation’s de facto museum of West Coast modernism. But in one of Canada’s wealthiest postal…
How will the design of commercial and multi-unit residential buildings change,…
The current global pandemic has quickly transformed our spaces, affecting how people are living, working, and moving through their day-to-day lives.…
United Front: Union, Vancouver, British Columbia
A multi-unit dwelling pairs a restored heritage home with a boldly contemporary infill structure.
Malinka Addition, Naramata, British Columbia
In 2003, architect Florian Maurer built his personal home in Naramata, British Columbia. The original architecture—which won a Governor General's Medal in…
Governor General’s Medal Winner: Lake Kawagama Retreat
WINNER OF A 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S MEDAL IN ARCHITECTURE LOCATION Kawagama Lake, Ontario
ARCHITECT Shim-Sutcliffe Architects Inc.
This retreat is…
New Image of Home
It is difficult to overstate the burden of COVID-19. Right after you hit hyperbole, you hit reality. It has shuttered our institutions and our professional…
Smart Growth: SmartVMC, Vaughan, Ontario
A mega-scale development in Vaughan is off to a promising start, with strong ideas about architecture, landscape and urban design.
Homecomings: B2 Lofts, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
PROJECT B2 Lofts, Lunenburg UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nova Scotia
ARCHITECT MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
TEXT Donald Chong
PHOTOS Matthew…
Book Review: Boundary Sequence Illusion—Ian MacDonald, Architect
Boundary Sequence Illusion: Ian McDonald, Architect.
Edited by Brian Carter (Dalhousie University Press, 2019)
An elegant volume on the work of Toronto-based…