Canada’s Queen City has become renowned for its housing boom. As the most populous location in the country, Toronto is also one of the world’s hottest luxury real estate markets. An hub for arts, business, and media, the city is sited on a sloping plateau with a unique ravine system. While it boasts incredible architecture and high-end designs, Toronto risks a housing correction. Rapid increases in home prices, overvaluation, and overbuilding have all attributed to the city’s mounting situation. Amidst these unstable conditions and uncertainty, new residential projects continue to be built.
Building Toronto: New Housing on the Rise in Canada’s Queen City
San José Stables / RAMA Estudio
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Architects: RAMA estudio
- Area: 92 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Hierro Hogar
Anstalten Correctional Facility / SHL + Friis & Moltke
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Architects: Friis & Moltke, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
- Area: 8000 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Ramboll, LYTT Architecture
Xinsha Primary School / 11ARCHITECTURE
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Architects: 11ARCHITECTURE
- Area: 37000 m²
- Year: 2021
Gangil 119 Fire Station / OA-Lab
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Architects: OA-Lab
- Area: 974 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Vision Ceramics
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Professionals: Thekujo, Cheonil MEC
Wiki World Forest Cabins / Wiki World + Advanced Architecture Lab[AaL]
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Architects: Advanced Architecture Lab[AaL], Wiki World
- Area: 80 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Rothoblaas, Italy
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Professionals: Wiki World
HUUS House / in situ studio
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Architects: in situ studio
- Area: 4233 ft²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Travis Creek Wood Products, Unliux, Xylem
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Professionals: Lysaght & Associates, Arrowhead, Bland Landscaping
Moon House / Prumo projetos
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Architects: Prumo projetos
- Area: 210 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: GM dos santos marcenaria, Moble
Norwell Public Library / Oudens Ello Architecture
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Architects: Oudens Ello Architecture
- Area: 21000 ft²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Armstrong, Mosa, Pella Windows, South County Post and Beam, Tarkett, +1
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Professionals: LeMessurier, Nitsch Engineering, G2 Collaborative, Oudens Ello Architecture, The Green Engineer, +3
Tasmanian House / Atelier Jiri Lev
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Architects: Atelier Jiri Lev
- Area: 26 m²
- Year: 2021
ArchDaily & Strelka Award: Last Days to Vote and Decide the Finalists
ArchDaily, Strelka Institute, and Strelka KB have selected a long list of 50 architectural projects from Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan for the second edition of The ArchDaily & Strelka Award. The open call invited emerging architects to submit their built projects that emphasize sustainability, research-based and participatory design, and the innovative use of materials. Architects and architecture and design firms that started their practice no more than 10 years ago could apply with projects that were built in the past five years.
Until August 26th, the readers of ArchDaily and Strelka Mag can vote for the projects that will make the shortlist.
Art, Soul and Education: 20 Award-Winning Projects with a Brilliant Touch
The world’s architects and interior designers do not simply design space. They take existing space and redefine and reinterpret it—along with its history, its surroundings and its culture. If the designer succeeds in capturing the very essence of a place, indoors or outdoors, and in filling it with new life, it can be described as outstanding design. And outstanding designs have won the iF Design Award again in 2021. Be they spaces for discovery or remembrance, for learning or for prayer, the iF Design Award has gone across categories and types of building to architectural and interior design projects that could hardly be more different, yet have “The CreatiFe Power of Design” in common. But what does that mean?
Oppenheim Architecture Reveals Luxury Hotel & Residences on Albanian Coast
Oppenheim Architecture have unveiled the design of the Jali Hotel and Residences, a new luxury complex on Albania's southern coast. The project will nestle in the site's picturesque landscape and seaside, and provide visitors and residents with a public square, recreational amenities, and access to a vibrant beachside club that pay homage to traditional Albanian coastal structures.
Can Sau. Emergency Scenography / unparelld’arquitectes
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Architects: unparelld’arquitectes
- Area: 113 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Modern Masters, Rajoleria Llensa, Rixaab
New Regulations and Private Initiatives are Pushing the Transition to Clean Energy
Following the recent evolution of the climate crisis, policymakers and private companies are getting behind the transition towards clean energy. California is set to mandate solar panels and battery storage for new buildings in a move towards establishing a 100% clean energy grid, while across the US, public schools are redesigned to operate on green energy. In Europe, the EU launched a call to establish an offshore renewable energies working group that would help define the framework for reaching the EU’s ambition of at least 300 GW of offshore wind and 40 GW of ocean energies by 2050. At the same time, furniture manufacturer IKEA announced it would start selling renewable energy to Swedish households.