Photo Courtesy of Hariri Pontarini Architects
Toronto-based architectural firm Hariri Pontarini Architects in collaboration with Great Gulf Homes has recently revelaed the new design for One Bloor, a mixed-use residential condominium tower in Toronto, Canada.
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Architects: Briere, Gilbert + Associes
Location: Boucherville, Québec, Canada
Project Architect: Martin Briere
Existing Area: 1,700 sqm
Extension Area: 1,470 sqm
Budget: $3.4 M
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Christian Perreault
Swedish architects We Are You were recently awarded 1st price in a competition for their proposal “Have a Nice Day” for a new student residential house in Toronto, Canada. You can see more images, a video, and the architect’s description after the break. read more »
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Architects: les architectes FABG
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Program: sport complex
Contractor: L’Archevêque & Rivest
Budget: 15,000,000 $ can.
Building area: 8,500 sqm
Total floor area: 8,500 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Steve Montpetit
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Architects: YH2 Architecture
Location: Grande Anse, Nouveau Brunswick, Canada
Project Team: Benoit Boivin, Marie-claude Hamelin, Loukas Yiacouvakis
Owner and builder: Jocelyn Jean
Project Area: maison: 1000 pi.ca. /atelier d’artiste: 1000 pi.ca.
Project Year: 2005/2007
Photographs: Courtesy of YH2 Architecture
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Canadian Architects Saucier + Perrotte Architectes shared with us the semi-finalist proposal they designed in collaboration with Bélanger, Beauchemin, Morency architectes, for the international competition of the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec in Québec City, Canada.
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More images and architect’s description after the break.
Aerial view © OMA, render by Luxigon
OMA has been announced as the winner of the international competition for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) expansion. The CAD$90 million project was also consulted with local residents, with an 82% of approval.
A series of stacked boxes remind the programatic relations of Seattle’s Library, while generating an interesting grand hall facing the street with urban qualities.
Section © OMA
The three stacked galleries vary in size, as you can see on the axo and models included below: contemporary exhibitions (50m x 50m), the permanent contemporary collection (45m x 35m) and design / Inuit exhibits (42.5m x 25m). The cantilever over the street creates the grand hall, a 14m tall transparent space connected to the park, starting point of an ascending path trough the boxes.
“Our ambition is to create a dramatic new presence for the city, while maintaining a respectful, even stealthy approach to the museum’s neighbors and the existing museum. The resulting form of cascading gallery boxes enhances the museum experience by creating a clarity in circulation and curation while allowing abundant natural light into the galleries.”
- Shohei Shigematsu
The other four finalists of the competition were Barkow Leibinger (Germany) + Imrey Culbert (US), Allied Works (US) + Fichten Soiferman et Associés (Canada), Nieto Sobejano (Spain) + Brière, Gilbert et Associés (Canada) and David Chipperfield (UK) + Groupe Arcop (Canada).
The project is led by partners Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu (who we interviewed before), and will be executed by OMA NY in collaboration with Provencher Roy + Associés Architectes. Construction is expected to be completed in fall 2013.
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MCM Partnership, shared with us their design for the Surrey Townshift Competition, for which they received the first overall prize. See more images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
© Ben Rahn/A-Frame
Architects: Hariri Pontarini Architects
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Project Area: 1,115 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Ben Rahn/A-Frame
© Pierre Bélanger
Architect: LEMAYMICHAUD Architecture Design
Location: Wendake, Québec, Canada
Program: Hotel and Museum
Site area: 15,400 sqm
Building area: 2,000 sqm
Total floor area: 4,850 sqm
Project Year: 2007–2008
Photographs: Pierre Bélanger
© Steve Montpetit
Architects: les architectes FABG
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Program: Community center
Contractor: KF construction
Budget: 5,000,000 $ can.
Site area: 5,500 sqm
Building area: 1,280 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Steve Montpetit
Colombian architects Paisajes Emergentes received second prize for their proposal for the Townshift International Competition in Canada.
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Architects: Affleck + de la Riva architects
Location: Montreal, Canada
Landscape: Robert Desjardins
Artist: Raphaëlle de Groot
Urban Lighting: Gilles Arpin
Horticulture: Sandra Barone
Industrial Design: Morelli designers inc.
Interpretation and Museology: Moitie-moitie inc.
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Marc Cramer
© Steve Montpetit
Architects: Les architectes FABG
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Principal in Charge: Éric Gauthier
Structure engineers: Aecom Tecsult
Mechanical and electrical engineers: Aecom Tecsult
Acoustician: Legault Davidson
Theater consultant: Trizart Alliance
Builder: Aecon
Project Area: 860 sqm
Budget: 4.5 M$
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Steve Montpetit
The international ideas competition “TownShift: Suburb into City” recently announced the list of finalists. The competition seeks innovative ideas for five established town centers of Surrey, Canada: Guildford, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, Newton and Semiahmoo. The aim of the competition is to “Shift” thinking and opportunities for each of these “Town” hubs towards more intense, public-minded and productive urban futures.
Seen at Bustler. For the complete list of finalists, click here. read more »
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The 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics taking place in Vancouver, Canada open today and we’d like to introduce you one of the most important venues designed for the event.
The Richmond Olympic Oval designed by Cannon Design, is located on a 32 acres of city-owned land along the banks of the Fraser River. Olympics have been a big opportunity for cities, and the facilities built for the event have the challenge to start a new development, as it has been in this case. The Oval will be the centrepiece of a major new urban waterfront neighbourhood featuring a mix of residential, commercial, and public amenity development. The new Oval neighbourhood will be a destination and meeting place offering diverse indoor and outdoor recreational activities, shopping, and services.
After the games, the building will become an international center for sports and wellness, and thanks to its flexible design it can be used for a wide variety of sport and community uses.
More details after the break:
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Architects: Kariouk Associates
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Principal In Charge: Paul duBellet Kariouk
Project Team: Chris Davis, Susan Gardiner, Cedric Boulet, Josee Labelle, Matthew Lahey, Todd Duckworth
General Contractor: G.M. French Construction
Structural Engineer: Leibe Engineering
Lighting: Gabriel-Mackinnon
Project Year: 2007–2009
Photographs: Photolux Studios
© Scott Massey
Canadian Architects Campos Leckie Studio shared with us this recent installation for an Exhibition for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver.
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Architects: gh3
Location: Lakefield, Ontario, Canada
Principal in Charge: Pat Hanson
Project Team: Deni Papetti, Walter Bettio, Diana Gerrard, Raymond Chow
Structural: Blackwell Bowick
Mechanical: Patrick Lam
Construction manager: Jim Thompson
Project Area: 167 sqm
Construction Year: 2007
Photographs: Larry Williams
The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design of the University of Toronto will held a conference on Architecture Therapeutics Aesthetics from February 26 till February 28. This conference will begin the public discourse that will be continued in our new Health Design graduate studies program currently in the planning stages.
It begins a dialogue between medicine and aesthetics examining the capacity for design to align evidence with intuition, quantitative analysis with qualitative judgment, science with art. The conference interrogates current ideas and practices defining the role of design in the promotion of health while seeking to foster an appreciation of how the forms of affective and cognitive experience associated with environmental aesthetics may clarify and amplify the goals that motivate therapeutic practices and institutions.
For more information, click here.
Call for Submissions – CLOG: Rendering Issue
We have been following the rising popularity of CLOG, beginning with their inaugural thematic issue on BIG and, their second issue on Apple which highlighted Jobs’ Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino by Foster + Partners. This latest architectural publication seeks…
A short while ago we received Pamphlet Architecture 11-20, …the second volume that accumulates the continually growing series. Steven Holl and William Stout started the Pamphlet series back in 1978. They wanted to create a venue “for publishing the works,
Chase for Space: An Architecture Challenge for the Future / Nejc Trošt
Open publication – Free publishing – More book
“Chase for Space: an architecture challenge for the future is an transdisciplinary book with wide overview of future space…
