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Cardwell Clubhouse / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Set at the edge of a clearing for the photovoltaic array that powers the main cottage on the site, Cardwell Clubhouse is an off-grid hybrid building that is part utility and part leisure hub. Designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design for an outdoors-oriented family who spend much of their time on the site immersed in nature and active pursuits, the clubhouse functions as the site's central social and activity hub. It combines a multipurpose clubhouse room – doubling as a flexible guest suite – with a garage that stores outdoor leisure equipment for activities like racquet sports, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and more. An adjacent outdoor court for tennis, basketball, and pickleball (created in the clearing necessitated by the solar array), along with areas for bocce, horseshoes, and children's games, reinforce the clubhouse's role as a destination for gathering and play.

Georgian Bay Beach House / &Pierre

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000

&Pierre presents House on Georgian Bay, a 3,780 sq. ft. (350 m²) year-round residence designed to replace a beloved but aging family cottage with a home intended to endure for generations. Grounded in principles of aging in place and long-term livability, the project reinterprets the traditional Georgian Bay cottage through a contemporary architectural lens.

Deep Tones and Natural Roots: 22 Shou Sugi Ban Homes Across the US and Canada

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Shou Sugi Ban is a traditional Japanese technique for wood preservation that involves charring the surface of timber to create a protective layer. While its origins are rooted in practical durability, the method has been widely adapted into the modern built environment and shapes a unique and distinctive aesthetic. It is a material of contradiction: it remains bold in its visual language due to its dark tones, yet it simultaneously borrows from and complements its natural surroundings, allowing houses to settle quietly into their sites.

Indigenous Hub / BDP Quadrangle + Two Row Architect + Stantec Architecture + ERA Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The Toronto Indigenous Hub emerges as an urban landmark where architecture, healing, and reconciliation intertwine in an unprecedented comprehensive proposal. Located in the Canary District, this 40,000 m² development occupies an entire block and integrates an Indigenous Community Health Center, two mid-rise residential buildings —Canary House and Birch House, with a total of 400 homes—, the Miziwe Biik Training Institute, a civic plaza, and the Indigenous Peoples Garden Patio. It is a carefully designed urban ecosystem aimed at serving and strengthening Toronto's urban Indigenous community, estimated at around 70,000 people.

Long Lake Cottage / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design

Valeria Silva — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000

An off-grid cottage on a forested peninsula combines natural materials with elevated living spaces amid the trees. Located on a secluded peninsula along a pristine, motorboat-free lake in the Ontario wilderness, this off-grid retreat offers a serene escape for an urban couple with a deep love of nature—who spent weekends camping on the land for a year before deciding where and what to build. Their goal: a place deeply connected to nature, elevated among the trees, and designed to accommodate accessible multigenerational living—a welcoming year-round refuge for gathering with family and friends.

STOCK T.C Culinary Emporium / Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0000

This culinary emporium – the first collaboration between two of Giannone Petricone Associates'
long-time clients, Toronto food empresarios Cosimo Mammolitti of Terroni/SUD Forno and Stephen Alexander of Cumbrae's – began with a conversation about creating an original gastronomic experience offering fine ingredients, prepared foods, and vibrant dining. Giannone Petricone's response began with a name: STOCK T.C implies stocked shelves, chicken stock, stockyards — essential building blocks from which to create a theatre of food, considered and presented in a trajectory from raw to refined.

Periscope House / Atelier RZLBD

Hana Abdel — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Located in East York, Toronto, Periscope House is a renovation-addition project in which the existing one-story bungalow is renovated and a second floor is added on top. It was commissioned by a young professional couple with two children, to create a more personalized and sustainable setting for their lives. Coinciding with the pandemic, however, which has doubled or even tripled the material costs, it eventually went through a drastic revision, which resulted in removing half of the second floor and relocating children's bedrooms to the ground floor. Yet, by utilizing the removed area as a void, the project has gained a series of double-height spaces on the ground floor, which has bestowed a distinctive exterior form that resembles a periscope or an antique camera with an accordion bellow.

10° of Seperation House / Atelier RZLBD

Hana Abdel — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Located in one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Toronto, the Hoggs Hollow, 10° of Separation is a simple, rational, and ethical response to the existing geographical context and nature of the site, as well as the client's needs for a retirement home.

Milky’s Fold Coffee Shop / Simone Ferkul Projects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000

For Milky's third location, a third dimension - Milky's newest coffee shop at 1243 Dundas St W in Toronto, opened March 15th, 2024. The space, designed by Simone Ferkul Projects, evolves the iconic, innovative designs of the first two locations, but with a twist. Rather than being expressed in a new material, Milky's distinctive elongated diamond is unfolded into three dimensions. Metal, wood, and stone surfaces were used to create the 3d pattern. Creative thinking found functional uses for the shape which is apparent in the shelving, displays, and even a door handle.

Flow House / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Dubbeldam Architecture + Design unveils Flow House, a semi-detached Victorian house in midtown Toronto that has been reconfigured for a creative couple and their children. The transformation of the 130-year-old home included adding additional living space on the back and top of the home, improving connections to the outdoors, and updating the interior and rear yards for contemporary living. The traditional front façade remains, while the interior is now a meaningful reflection of the family's unique personalities, vocations, and shared experiences.

Bunkie on the Hill Residence / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The smallest in a collection of cabins scattered across four-family properties, Bunkie on the Hill serves as a space of respite for a family-oriented client in Muskoka. Designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, the Bunkie is tucked into the trees at the top of a steep slope, providing a quiet space away from the action of the multigenerational family cottages below. A contemporary interpretation of the traditional A-frame shape evokes the quintessential cabin in the woods, differentiated by shifted roof volumes. Reminiscent of the overlapping layers of rock in the surrounding landscape, the split roof design features two intersecting gables that create opportunities for window openings where the roof volumes separate.

House Caroline / Reign Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Located in Toronto’s Leslieville neighborhood, House Caroline emerges as a contemporary A-framed addition to a historic 1850s Victorian home. What was once a partitioned, dim residence has been transformed into an open, warm, and brilliantly illuminated sanctuary for a growing family.

Feline Ski Chalet / Atelier RZLBD

Paula Pintos — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Feline Chalet is a ski chalet situated on a beautiful rural landscape in Collingwood, which has views towards two mountains – the Blue Mountain on the north-west and the Osler Bluff on the south-west – and a small creek flowing into Georgian Bay on the east end. Responding to the rich and complex characteristics of the site and the client’s vision for a refuge, the project is resolved into three discrete structures – the public/living / ceremonial (the “hut”), the transitional (the “bridge”), and the private / sleeping / functional (the “cave”) – arranged from west to east respectively on the north edge of the site.

Manulife Head Office Exterior Renovations / Martin Simmons Sweers Architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 31 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Architectural Vision + Design. The project began with the client’s desire to provide a more fulfilling work experience for staff and to encourage greater enjoyment of the existing nature surrounding The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (“Manulife”). To this end, the architects envisioned a new kind of office space – an “open-air office” that would not only provide an enticing outdoor setting for coffee and lunch breaks but would also become an alternative place for employees to perform their daily work activities.

Bennington Farmhouse / POST Architecture

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Minutes from Toronto’s scenic Beltline Trail (an abandoned train route from the 1890s) sits a contemporary farmhouse in the Bennington Heights neighborhood of the city. The farmhouse is a sensitive architectural reconstruction of an old farmhouse on the property—beloved by the community.