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Pearce+ creates temporary sub-zero restaurant in Canada

March 27, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

UK architecture studio Pearce+ and Canadian designer Joe Kalturnyk have created a temporary inflatable restaurant for subzero temperatures in Winnipeg, Canada. The barrel-vaulted restaurant has space for 48 guests dining in temperatures as low as -30 degrees Celsius during the 10th annual RAW:almond fine dining food festival, which celebrates both Canadian cuisine and the harsh

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Ivy Studio installs colourful marble in Montreal’s Hayat restaurant

February 25, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Montreal-based Ivy Studio has chosen a variety of dramatic marble to outfit a Middle Eastern restaurant, which features a colour palette influenced by “the earthy tones of the Syrian deserts”. In Montreal’s Old Port neighbourhood, the 1,500-square-foot (140-square metre) Hayat restaurant is designed to reflect the cuisine served by chef Joseph Awad. “This Middle Eastern

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Saunders Architecture creates steel-clad house for Carraig Ridge in Alberta

February 12, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Norway-based Saunders Architecture has created a Y-shaped house clad in Corten steel with floor-to-ceiling glazing in a design-focused neighbourhood near Calgary, Alberta. The aptly named Y House has a footprint of 190 square metres and was completed by design firm Saunders Architecture in 2022. The residence is located in a designed-focused community called Carraig Ridge,

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Studio Paolo Ferrari designs Toronto restaurant as a “world unto itself”

February 11, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Toronto-based Studio Paolo Ferrari has created cinematic interiors for a restaurant in the city’s Downtown area, combining influences from filmmakers that range from Stanley Kubrick to Nancy Meyers. Unlike a typical restaurant layout, Daphne unfolds as a series of rooms with distinct identities, each borrowing references from different cinema styles. Studio Paolo Ferrari intended each

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Gensler designs circular housing block with electric-vehicle garages

February 2, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US architecture studio Gensler has designed an apartment complex with circular buildings and integrated electric-vehicle parking towers in Ontario. Located outside of Toronto, the Electric Vehicle Enclave (EVE) Park development aims to integrate green technologies into a community-focused residential development. “The EVE Park homes are designed within circular clusters with stepped rooflines that create dynamic spatial

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Future Neighbourhood exhibition at IDS Toronto features timber transitional housing

January 31, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Interior Design Show Toronto director Will Sorrell has curated an exhibition of speculative spaces, including a model for transitional housing by architecture studio SvN for sites in mid-development. Future Neighbourhood was an exhibition in the centre of the design trade fair Interior Design Show Toronto 2024 (IDS Toronto), which featured six different installations showcasing design’s

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D’Arcy Jones adds subterranean garage to century-old house in Vancouver

January 25, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architecture studio D’Arcy Jones Architects has completed a project called John Street Redo, which involved renovating and enlarging an early 1900s home in a way that is “forward-looking without erasing an old building’s original charm”. Located in East Vancouver, the project was designed for a young couple who had a baby upon the home’s

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StudioAC places cedar-clad house on natural ridge in Ontario

January 15, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Light-toned cedar and brick clad the exterior of a Canadian home by architecture firm StudioAC that is tucked into a hill overlooking a meadow and a lake. Built for a private client, the holiday home was designed to embrace its serene setting. The dwelling is located in the community of Cherry Valley within Prince Edward

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Provencher Roy designs tower with dramatic cantilever for Montreal quay restoration

January 11, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local architecture studio Provencher Roy has included the “lighthouse”-like Port of Montreal Tower with cantilevered platforms in the renovation of a disused industrial pier in Montreal. Provencher Roy placed the 65-metre-tall tower on the edge of a pier in Montreal’s Old City that once served as a grain exporting hub for the region. It now

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Rotated bricks animate facade of Garden Laneway House in Toronto

January 11, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architecture studio Williamson Williamson has designed a multi-level, brick-clad home along an alley that is meant to depart from the typical laneway house in terms of looks, size and function. The Garden Laneway House occupies the rear of a slender, 369-square-metre parcel in Toronto’s West End. It is an example of laneway housing, a

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