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Mass timber adds visual warmth to British Columbia ice arena by HCMA

November 29, 2025 Jenna McKnight 0

The Rosemary Brown Recreation Centre was designed by HCMA Architecture + Design to depart from the “dated model” of typical ice arenas, which tend to be cold, windowless and framed with steel. The recreational centre is located in the emerging Southgate community in Burnaby, a city near Vancouver. The 8,547-square-metre building was designed by local

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Daria Sheina Studio designs off-grid British Columbia cabin

November 26, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Daria Sheina Studio has designed The Nest, an off-grid cabin with cedar-wrapped rotated volumes that allow panoramic views of the Howe Sound off the coast of British Columbia. The 1,063-square-foot (99-square-metre) house sits on the highest point of a 10-acre site on Keats Island, a remote getaway with only 50 full-time residents near Vancouver. Daria

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Ste Marie designs trio of atmospheric hospitality venues in Edmonton

November 18, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

Canadian studio Ste Marie has created three interconnected yet distinct hospitality venues at the base of a residential tower in Edmonton, Alberta. The Va Caffè daytime cafe, Olia fine-dining Italian restaurant and Mimi lounge were all designed by Ste Marie, with each providing a different culinary experience at the Citizen on Jasper development in the

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Ivy Studio designs “bold and glamorous” Montreal restaurant

November 2, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

The interiors of vintage limousines informed this Montreal bar and restaurant, in which locally based Ivy Studio has combined red velvet and dark wood panelling. Limousine opened in the Saint-Lambert suburb south of the Canadian city to cater to an influx of younger residents, providing “a bold and glamorous newcomer to the local dining scene”

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Commenters ask “what’s not to like?” in this week’s Dezeen Debate

October 21, 2025 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a woodland house in Quebec clad in wood shingles. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Canadian studios Oyama and Julia Manaças Architecte designed Waterhouse, a shingle-clad woodland home in a natural clearing in Sutton, Quebec. Commenters were divided on the home, with one writing, “What’s not to like?”

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“Understated nostalgia” defines Montreal sandwich shop by MRDK

October 18, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

Bright yellow upholstery and formica pops against a 1970s colour palette inside this sandwich shop in Montreal, designed by local studio MRDK. The architecture and design firm, also known as Ménard Dworkind, designed Renzo Sandwich in the city’s Mile End neighbourhood as a throwback to retro diners. Measuring 1,275 square feet (118 square metres), the

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SML Studio Architecture creates cafe and bar inside Vancouver’s Waterfall Building

October 11, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

The angled glass facade of a modernist icon in Vancouver now covers a community cafe and bar designed by SML Studio Architecture. Ellipsis serves coffee and cocktails inside the Waterfall Building, one of the final works by late Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, which he designed in 1996 in collaboration with Nick Milkovich. Positioned within a

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Anduhyaun Emergency Shelter by LGA houses domestic violence survivors

September 27, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

Toronto studio LGA Architectural Partners has created a shelter for Indigenous women affected by domestic violence, ensuring the building and interiors honour their traditions. The Anduhyaun Emergency Shelter arose from a partnership between LGA and Anduhyaun, the owner and operator of Toronto’s only Indigenous Violence Against Women shelter. “Our collaboration has created a one-of-a-kind space

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Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker creates “kit-of-parts” design for Toronto train stations

November 5, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Montreal architecture studio Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker has created a modular design system for the new Eglinton Crosstown light rail stations in Toronto. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT runs 19.5 kilometres east to west across Toronto, and while construction is complete, according to local sources, the line is yet to open to the public. Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker

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MJMA Architecture & Design marries wood and mesh for Canadian sports centre

October 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Timber columns and a mesh facade are designed to emulate “a screen of trees” at this sports centre in Canada by Toronto studio MJMA Architecture & Design. Named the Churchill Meadows Community Centre and Sports Park, the project in Mississauga involved the conversion of a 20-hectare agricultural field into parkland. It is shortlisted in the

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