Bromont House / Paul Bernier Architecte
Architects: Paul Bernier Architecte
Location: Bromont, QC, Canada
Architect In Charge: Paul Bernier
Structural Engineer: Alain Mousseau
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 3,925 sq ft
Photographs: James Brittain
Ville de Lévis / STGM Architectes
Architects: STGM Architectes
Location: Lévis, QC, Canada
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 4,700 sqm
Photographs: Stéphane Groleau , Alexandre Guérin
Sherbourne Common Pavilion / Teeple Architects
Architects: Teeple Architects
Location: Sherbourne Common, Toronto Waterfront, Ontario, Canada
Completion Date: April 2011
Gross square Footage: 227 sqm
Principal in Charge: Stephen Teeple (OAA, Fraic)
Project Manager: Bernard Jin
Design Team: Mark Baechler, Allan Wes Wilson
Photographer: Shai Gil
Salon Urbain / Sid Lee Architecture + Ædifica
Architect: Sid Lee Architecture + Ædifica
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Project Area: 5,950 sqf
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Stéphane Brugger
5th Annual Creative Spaces Event
The fifth anniversary of the Creative Spaces summer event highlights the creation of a pedestrian mall on St. Catherine, between St-Hubert and Papineau streets. Taking place until September 16, the event offers an opportunity for the instigator of the project, the Société de développement commercial du Village (SDCV), in collaboration with the Ville-Marie borough, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of Montreal’s Gay Village. The spaces will open up for the display of creative installations and art exhibitions. More information on the event after the break.
Maison du Maroc / ACDF* Architecture
Architects: ACDF*
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Design Team: Maxime Frappier, Louis-Philippe Frappier, Gabriel Villeneuve, Jean-Philippe Parent, Patrick Morand, Laurence Lebeux, Laure Giordani, Robert Dequoy, Simon Orman, Mathieu St-Hilaire, Veronique Taillefer, Denis Dupuis
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: James Brittain, ACDF*
Administrative Building of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. / Coarchitecture
Architects: Coarchitecture
Location: Quebec, Canada
Project Area: 37,000 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Client: GlaxoSmithKline Inc.
Photographs: Stéphane Groleau
Ridge House / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Location: Valley in rural Canada
Project Team: Todd Howard, Steve Raike, Jackie Bacon
Principal for Design: Peter Q. Bohlin
Project Manager: Jeffrey Jones
Project Area: 6300 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Nic Lehoux
Zero Mile House / Yianna Bouyioukou
Located on an urban corner lot in the city of Vancouver, the Zero Mile House establishes a relationship between the size of the lot and the size of the construction it supports. Designed by Yianna Bouyioukou, the architectural strategy is focused on most of the house’s construction materials being produced literally on the specific lot. This way, land is not only the physical support for the human habitat, but also the provider. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Maison E3 / Natalie Dionne
Architects: Natalie Dionne
Location: Montréal, Canada
Project Area: 300 sqm
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Marc Cramer
Evergreen Brick Works / Diamond Schmitt Architects
Architect: Diamond Schmitt Architects
Location: Toronto, Canada
Structural Engineers: Hallsall Associates
Construction Manager: Eastern Construction
Heritage Preservation: E.R.A. Architects
Site Area: 11,743 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Tom Arban
Malbaie VI Maree Basse / MU Architecture
Architects: MU Architecture
Location: Cap-à-l’Aigle, La Malbaie, Québec, Canada
Project Team: Jean-Sébastien Herr, Charles Côté, Audrey Lavallée
Client: Florent Moser (Les Terrasses Cap-à-l’Aigle)
Completion: September 2011
Project Area: 3,200 sqm
Photographs: Ulysse Lemerise Bouchard
Chatham-Kent YMCA / Tillmann Ruth Robinson Architects
Architects: Tillmann Ruth Robinson Architects
Location: Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Principal-in-Charge: Scott Robinson
Design Architect: Scott Robinson
General Contractors: Norlon Builders; Van Boxmeer & Stranges Structural Engineers; Vanderwesten Rutherford Mantecon (VRM) Mechanical and Electrical Engineers
Client: YMCA Chatham-Kent
Completion: September 2011
Project Size: 50,000 sqm
Cost: $11,600,000
Photographs: Lisa Logan
Patio House / Reza Aliabadi
Architects: Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
Location: Toronto, Canada
Structure: Ali Saeed
Project Manager: Amin Sheivari
Construction: Maxamin Corp.
Living Area: 2,000 sqft
Completion: 2012
Photographs: BorXu Design
House 1 / Kyra Clarkson Architect
Architects: Kyra Clarkson Architect – Kyra Clarkson, Christopher Glaisek
Location: 154 Rhodes Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada
Completion Date: May 2012
Area: 1,800 sqm (1,260 above grade)
Landscape Architect: Elise Shelley Landscape Architect
Contractor: Collaborative Ventures Inc.
Photographs: Steven Evans Photography
Gambier Island Retreat / BattersbyHowat Architects
Architects: BattersbyHowat Architects
Location: Gambier Island, British Columbia, Canada
Project Team: David Battersby, Heather Howat, Tillie Kwan, Cindy Lee
Structural Consultant: Bevan-Pritchard Man
Photographs: Sama Jim Canzian
DjavadMowafaghian Centre for Brain Health / Stantec
Stantec’s design for the DjavafMowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at UBC, in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada is envisioned as a translational research facility defined by present and future medical practices that collaborate under research and patient care. To achieve this, designers considered the intersections within the spatial dynamics of the facility to coordinate interactions between researchers and clinicians. The facility is 134,500 square feet and includes exam / consultation rooms, lab benches, a full conference centre, a brain tissue and DNA bank of samples collected from consenting patients, and patient and animal MRI capabilities.
More after the break.
‘Très Grande Bibliothèque (Very Big Library)’ Exhibition
On view now until September 9, the ‘Très Grande Bibliothèque (Very Big Library)’ Exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) presents materials produced by OMA, in response to an international competition launched by France’s then president, Francois Mitterrand, in 1989 to design the new bibliotheque nationale de France. Curated by Rem Koolhaas and Clement Blanchet of OMA, the concept of their proposal resided in the notion of the library spaces being excavated as voids from a ‘solid cube’ containing the archives. The concept offered great architectural freedom, with the public spaces (or voids) being liberated from the constraints of a predeterminded structure or form. More information on the exhibition after the break.
Mohawk College / Zeidler Partnership Architectschitects
Architects: Zeidler Partnership Architects
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Area: 48,500 square feet
Construction Cost: $12 million
Completion Date: January 2011
Photographs: Tom Arban
