Discovery Walk / Sturgess Architecture
Sturgess Architecture has designed the winning competition entry for Brewster’s newest tourist attraction in Alberta, Canada, the Discovery Walk. The design is expected to be built by the end of 2011. More renderings after the break.
West Vancouver Community Centre / HCMA
The design for the West Vancouver Community Centre involved a set of ambitious design goals. The client wished to consolidate a number of disparate facilities, to provide a front door to their recreation campus, and to take an aggressive approach to social health and environmental innovation. The project’s technical and administrative challenges came to define the Centre’s role in West Vancouver’s distinctly West Coast social fabric. This is a culture that enjoys a strong tradition of both civic activity and physical wellness. The preeminent architectural elements in the project, the three-storey atrium and the circulation spine, reflect these traditions.
Architect: Hughes Condon Marler Architects (HCMA)
Location: 2121 Marine Drive West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Project Area: 8,000 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Hubert Kang and Lucas Finlay
Langara Student Union / Teeple Architects in association with IBI/HB Architects
The new Langara Student Union is designed as a focal point and center of the main quad at Langara College. It flows out from between two existing buildings bringing students from the 49th Street entrance into the heart of the campus and public square – drawing life into the outdoor space.
Architects: Teeple Architects Inc in association with IBI/HB Architects
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Principal in Charge: Stephen Teeple (OAA, FRAIC )
Project Team: Myles Craig, Luc Bouliane, William Elsworthy, Rob Cheung, Jeff Christiansen, Billy Quan, Martin Bruckner
Structural: WSB
Mechanical: IMEC Mechanical
Electrical: Genivar
Geo-Tech: Geo Pacific
LEED: Enermodal Engineers
Landscape: Francesco Martire – Teeple Architects Inc
Envelope: Morrison Hershfield
Food Service & Waste: Teeple Architects Inc
Cost: Bird Construction Company
Code: LMDG
Construction Manager: Bird Construction Company
Owner: Langara College
Project Area: 17,900 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Shai Gil Photography
Native Child and Family Services of Toronto / Levitt Goodman Architects
The new Native Child and Family Services of Toronto (NCFST) consolidates social and culture-based services for aboriginal children and families within a 30,000 square foot office building in the heart of downtown Toronto. The challenge for this project was to create a place that would reconnect urban aboriginals with nature in the heart of the city and project a bold visual presence for the First Nations community – which was difficult to conceive for a community that is comprised of distinctive bands with their own identities and customs.
Architecture: Levitt Goodman Architects Ltd.
Location: Toronto, Canada
Environmental Graphics: Adams + Associates Design Consultants Inc. with 7th Generation Image Makers
Landscape Architecture: Scott Torrance Landscape Architecture Inc.
Project Area: 30,000 sqf
Photographs: Ben Rahn / A-Frame Inc and Jesse Colin Jackson
The Birchview House / Prototype Design Lab
Architects: Prototype Design Lab
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Design Team: Antonio Tadrissi (Partner-in-charge), Johnny Sihra, Brenda Izen, Monir Zarnegar (graphics)
Contractor: Multicon Design/Build
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Johnny Sihra
Engineering 5 Building / Perkins+Will
Architects: Perkins+Will
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Project area: 154,000 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Lisa Logan Architectural Photography
White Space: The Architecture of Daniel Evan White
Our friends at goodweather are working on a documentary and an exhibition about the Vancouver-based architect Daniel Evan White. His work will be featured in a major retrospective upcoming at the Museum of Vancouver on February 2012. There’s a trailer for the documentary now that we want to share with you. See more about Dan White right here.
Curatorial Opportunities at the CCA
Curatorial practice as it emerged during the twentieth century is being extensively recast. The tremendous change in the status of the object, of culture, of the various disciplines, or information and education, implies an inevitable transformation of the curator’s role and competencies. A renewed interest for curatorial practice has recently emerged within the field of architecture.
The CCA is launching new curatorial opportunities: the Young Curators Program and the Power Corporation of Canada Curatorial Internships Program.
Find our more about the programs at the CCA official website.
Ghost 7 / MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
The Ghost Architectural Laboratory is the research facility of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited. It is an education initiative designed to promote the transfer of architectural knowledge through direct experience – project-based learning taught in the master-builder tradition – with emphasis on issues of landscape, material culture, and community. For two weeks every summer builders, students, engineers, architects, and professors converge on MacKay’s property to partake in a design/build intership. The one featured here is Ghost 7, the first permanent Ghost project.
Project description, images, and drawings after the break.
Architect: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited
Location: Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Project Team: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Talbot Sweetapple, Peter Blackie
Structural: Campbell Coumeau
Builder: Gordon McLean, Warren Mcally
Project Area: 2,000 sqf
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: James Steeves
‘Palladio at Work’ Exhibition at The Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is hosting an exhibition of Palladio’s drawings, giving new insight into the use of drawings as a tool to record, develop and disseminate his ideas. Curated by Guido Beltramini, in collaboration with Charles Hind, Palladio at Work will be on view in the museum’s Octogonal Gallery from March 3 to May 22, 2011.
More on the exihibition and on Andrea Palladio after the break.
Brooklin Community Centre And Library / Perkins + Will
Architects: Perkins + Will
Location: Brooklin, Ontario, Canada
Project area: 57,000 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Lisa Logan Architectural Photography
St. Joseph’s Media / Teeple Architects
This design for a large media company brings several previously dispersed publications together in a consolidated location on Queen Street East in Toronto. The site is unusual in that it includes the third and fourth levels of adjoining 19th-century warehouse buildings. The introduction of a sky lit interior street unifies the space and the company identity, bringing together over 250 employees of 12 popular Canadian magazines (including Toronto Life and Saturday Night).
Project description, images, and drawings following the break.
Architect: Teeple Architects
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Principal in Charge: Stephen Teeple (OAA, FRAIC)
Project Team: Cheryl Atkinson, Robert Ree, Yan Cai, Andre D’Elia, Don Collins, William Elsworthy
Associate Architect: Superkul Architects Inc.
Structural Engineer: Blackwell Engineering Inc.
Mechanical Engineer: Hidi Rae Consulting Engineers Inc.
Electrical Engineer: Hidi Rae Consulting Engineers Inc.
General Contractor: Panigas Group
Project Area: 35,000 spf
Project Year: 2004
Photography: Tom Arban
Saint-Laurent Sports Complex Architecture Competition Winner
The Saucier + Perrotte Architectes and Hughes Condon Marler Architects with SNC Lavalin team won the architecture competition for the future sports complex in Saint-Laurent, a former city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The winning team’s proposal distinguished itself from the others by the quality of its architectural gesture, the simplicity of the concept, the creation of a distinctively urban branding image and wayfinding strategy, its adherence to the surface areas of the facilities, the effectiveness of its sustainable development strategies and its potential for change. More images and project description after the break.
Trent Community Sport and Recreation Centre / Perkins + Will
Architects: Perkins + Will
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Project area: 80,000 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Tom Arban Photography
Screen House / Randy Bens Architect
The clients of this 1954 bungalow asked Randy Bens Architect to add a new floor to the existing structure. Located in a post war suburban neighborhood that sits at the prow of a hill in New Westminster, British Columbia, the bungalow is surrounded by rich modernist architecture from that era. The existing house was an L-shaped bungalow that was too small for the clients, an artist and psychologist, who have three boys ages 17 to 26. The new floor would be the domain of the parents, and the boys would acquire main floor bedrooms of a more suitable size. The addition would be composed of a studio, master suite, and a deck to take advantage of the view. Architecturally, the goal was to knit together the old and new with simple gestures and materials that would be sympathetic to their context, yet fresh.
Project description, images, and drawings following the break.
Architect: Randy Bens Architect
Location: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Contractor: Basil Restorations Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Ennova Structural Engineers Inc.
Millwork: Topal Custom Cabinets
Project Area: 3,500 sqf
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Roger Brooks Photography
Pachter Residence / Teeple Architects
Choosing to live, work and sell his art in one location, the Artist-Owner wanted to bring these program elements together, while keeping their architectural expression distinct. Teeple Architects’ solution came in the form of three long spatial volumes stacked on top of each other, shifted laterally and longitudinally to allow light penetration into the spaces. Each volume houses one aspect of the program; the ground floor volume is the studio, the second floor; the gallery, and the top floor is the residence. The clarity and directness of the concept brings dramatic expression to the sculptural form of the building.
Project description, images, and drawings following the break.
Architect: Teeple Architects
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Principal in Charge: Stephen Teeple (OAA, FRAIC)
Project Team: Bernard Jin, Mark Baechler
Structural Engineer: R Villa Associates
General Contractor: Golden Hammer Renovations
Project Area: 3,200 sqf
Project Year: 2004
Photographs: Tom Arban
Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church / Teeple Architects
The new Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church, designed by Teeple Architects, has been conceived as a direct reflection of the liturgical vision of its Baptist congregation. This liturgical vision has a dual focus – fellowship, which the church characterizes as horizontal relationships between people, and spirituality, which is seen as a vertical relationship between people and God.
Project description, images, and drawings following the break.
Architect: Teeple Architects
Location: Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Principal in Charge: Stephen Teeple (OAA, FRAIC)
Project Team: Cheryl Atkinson, Bernard Jin, David Jensen, William Elsworthy, Graham Baxter
Structural Engineer: CPE
Mechanical Engineer: LKM
Electrical Engineer: LKM
Civil: Masongsong
Landscape Architect: Dutoit Allsopp Hillier
General Contractor: Derbtile Construction Inc.
Project Area: 80,000 sqf
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Shai Gil Photography
Bohemier Residence / 5468796 Architecture + Cohlmeyer Architecture
Architects: 5468796 Architecture Inc + Cohlmeyer Architecture Ltd.
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Structural Engineering: Hanuschak Consultants Inc
Contractor: Sakiyama Construction
Project area: 3,500 sq. ft.
Project year: 2009
Photographs: 5468796 Architecture Inc.
Library and Classroom Building, Langara College / Teeple Architects
From the project’s inception, Langara College was looking to address the educational and spatial needs of the school, as well as create a sustainable environment to incorporate the new Library and Classroom program. In addition to designing the building, Teeple Architects designed a master plan that offers a strategy to realize the environmentally responsible vision of the College’s future. The decision to create a LEED Gold Campus, supported by sustainable built and natural features, was the starting point for the overall Langara scheme.
Architect: Teeple Architects
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Principal in Charge & Project Architect: Stephen Teeple (OAA, FRAIC)
Project Team: Cheryl Atkinson, Myles Craig, Luc Bouliane
Associate Architect: IBI/HB Architects
Structural Engineer: Glotman, Simpson
Landscape Architect: Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
Mechanical Engineer: Cobalt Engineering
Electrical Engineer: Spantek
General Contractor: Bird Construction
Project Area: 80,000 sqf
Project Year 2007
Photographs: Shai Gil Photography
Thomas Haas Patisserie / Bricault design
Architects: Bricault design
Location: Vancouver BC, Canada
Project area: 124 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Farah Nosh
Centre Sportif Jean-Claude Malépart / Saia Barbarese Toupouzanov Architectes
Architects: Saia Barbarese Toupouzanov Architectes - Mario Saia, Dino Barbarese, Vladimir Topouzanov
Location: Montreal, Canada
Project team: Dino Barbarese, Patrick de Barros, Wassili Dudan, David Griffin, Virginie Legast, Mathias Loscos, Yvan Marion, Donald Marquis, Maio Saia, Catherine Simard, Vladimir Topouzanov, Sam Yip
Engineer: AECOM
Client: Ville de Montréal
Project area: 2,680 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Marc Cramer, Frédéric Saia, Vladimir Topouzanov
