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Audain Art Museum / Patkau Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000

The form and character of the Audain Art Museum are deliberately restrained to provide a quiet, minimal backdrop to the art within and the surrounding natural landscape. The simple form of the exterior is clad in an envelope of dark metal which recedes into the shadows of the surrounding forest. Where this envelope is opened, to provide access in the entry porch or view from the glazed walkway to the galleries, the dark metal is overlaid by an inviting luminous wood casing. Public spaces in the interior, which are visible from the exterior, continue this warm luminous materiality.

Capilano Library / Patkau Architects + Group2

Hana Abdel — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The Capilano Library is inspired by a ravine hidden within dense foliage at the edge of its suburban site. Orphaned from the North Saskatchewan River by intense urbanization in the 1960s, the ravine is a remnant of a riparian prairie ecosystem that once characterized the Edmonton area. Flanked by a residential street to the west and the orphaned ravine to the east, the site is ideal for a library, both accessible and connected to nature.

Polygon Gallery / Patkau Architects

chlsey — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:00:00 +0000

The Polygon Gallery is the rebirth of the Presentation House Gallery, which has been a passionately independent photography and media institution in North Vancouver for more than forty years. More site-maker than site response, the building stands at the front of urban waterfront renewal where infrastructure is reimagined and culture outgrows an industrial past.

Fort York National Historic Site Visitor Centre / Patkau Architects + Kearns Mancini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Fort York, considered the birthplace of Toronto, is a National Historic Site. It represents the single most important visual and contextual cultural heritage link to British military and social history remaining in the City of Toronto.

ARTlab / Patkau Architects + LM Architectural Group

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 25 May 2016 09:00:00 +0000

This project began as a renovation to Tache Hall, a 1911 student residence, for Music and Art at the University of Manitoba. When an opportunity arose for federal stimulus funding during the 2009 recession, the decision was made to develop a portion of the program separately, so it could be designed and constructed in an expedited manner to meet funding deadlines. This project, the ARTlab, became the first of a multi-phase creative arts facility.

AD Classics: Strawberry Vale Elementary School / Patkau Architects

David Langdon — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 08:00:00 +0000

In the struggle against the homogenizing forces of an increasingly globalized architectural culture, the particularized interventions of Patkau Architects in the Canadian southwest proffer a means of resistance, grounded in the immediacy of context and the sacrosanctity of nature. Combining local material palettes with a rich tectonic vocabulary that borrows from the diverging currents of modernity and vernacular practice, the firm’s projects are dynamic and eminently sui generis, the results of an inspired pursuit at the nexus of regionalism, technology, and critical theory.

Hadaway House / Patkau Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:00:40 +0000

This snow country house is located on a northwest slope overlooking a panoramic view of Whistler valley in southwest British Columbia. The site is a difficult wedge shape which offers just enough room for a garage and narrow entrance on the street side at the top of the slope.

Tula House / Patkau Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Perched 44 feet above the Pacific Ocean on a remote island, the Tula House reflects the casual irregularity of the sites rock ledges, beach, and forest in both its geometric and spatial order.

Shaw House / Patkau Architects

Kritiana Ross — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Beaty Biodiversity Center and Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory / Patkau Architects

Kelly Minner — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Beaty Biodiversity Center and the Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory are located on Main Mall, the central north/south spine of the University of British Columbia. Together they form a complex of related environmental science functions; a new campus precinct organized around a generous exterior courtyard space which is bisected by new cross-campus pedestrian and bicycle connections.

Beaty Biodiversity Centre - Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory / Patkau Architects

Kritiana Ross — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Linear House / Patkau Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Linear House is located on a sixteen acre farm on Salt Spring Island, an island in the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The property is bisected from east to west by a long row of mature Douglas fir trees. There is a gentle slope falling across the site from south to north. The south half of the site contains an orchard; the north half a hay field. There was an existing cottage on the property which has been sold and relocated to a neighbouring property. The existing barn, garage and studio buildings remain.

Winnipeg Skating Shelters / Patkau Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Winnipeg is a city of 600,000 residents located on the Canadian prairie. It is the coldest city of its size outside of Siberia. Winter can last six months. So learning to celebrate winter - learning to take advantage of the opportunities that winter provides - makes sense.

Grand Library of Québec / Patkau Architects + Menkès Shooner Dagenais Le Tourneux Architectes + Croft Pelletier

Kelly Minner — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Grand Library of Québec consolidates a number of collections dispersed throughout the province to create a resource library for the region as well as a central public library for the city of Montreal. The building contains four major components: a general library, a children's library, the collection Québécoise (historic documents pertaining to Quebec), and an assortment of public spaces outside the library control zone.

Winnipeg Library Addition / Patkau Architects + LM Architectural Group

Kelly Minner — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Winnipeg Centennial Library was originally constructed in 1976 as a three-story building occupying a city block and an adjacent public park. The existing library, constructed of reinforced concrete exposed to the interior and pre-cast panel exterior, felt very disconnected from its surroundings including the park. The addition to the library, which began in 2002 as the winning entry in an invited design competition, includes reorganization and expansion of the collections, reconfiguration of the circulation systems, and creation of new social spaces, as well as renovation of the existing library.

Gleneagles Community Center / Patkau Architects

Kelly Minner — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Gleneagles Community Center is located on a small, gently sloping site adjacent to a public golf course. Patkau Architects organized the program on three levels to minimize the building footprint. By subtly reshaping the cross-sectional topography of the site, the lower level and the intermediate level are both located on grade. More photographs and drawings following the break.