Canada

Atelier L’Abri renovates trio of apartments for a family in Montreal

September 7, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Montreal design-build studio Atelier L’Abri has overhauled a triplex residence in the city’s Petit Laurier neighbourhood, using a stark white palette inside to contrast the building’s burgundy exterior. The 3,000-square-foot (280-square-metre) Triplex Fabre project was designed to accommodate two generations of the same family. The triplex typology, which comprises three connected units stacked on top

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Atelier Chardonnat and Salem Architecture overhaul mid-century Montreal house

September 3, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studios Atelier Chardonnat and Salem Architecture have renovated and expanded a mid-century modern house in Montreal, dividing the original residence from the addition with a monumental skylight. Architects Morin & Cinq-Mars originally constructed Residence Ave Duchastel on Mount Royal in the Outremont district in the 1950s, drawing inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs. Completing

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Studio Jean Verville Architectes adds “graphic dimension” to brutalist apartment

September 1, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Bright yellow accents stand out against concrete and metal surfaces within this “creative laboratory” that architect Jean Verville has created for himself inside a residential tower in Quebec City. The Canadian architect, who is currently dividing his time between practice and teaching at the School of Architecture of Laval University in Quebec City, designed the

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Reigo and Bauer uses diamond-shaped cladding for angular Toronto house

August 30, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Reigo and Bauer has completed a Toronto house clad in diamond-shaped panels that present a “quiet tension of that contrast” between the cladding’s decorative and minimalist qualities. Called Neville Park, the three-level house sits on a narrow lot in an East End Toronto residential neighbourhood. It is characterised by a tall profile with

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Reigo and Bauer uses diamond-shaped cladding for angular Toronto house

August 30, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Reigo and Bauer has completed a Toronto house clad in diamond-shaped panels that present a “quiet tension of that contrast” between the cladding’s decorative and minimalist qualities. Called Neville Park, the three-level house sits on a narrow lot in an East End Toronto residential neighbourhood. It is characterised by a tall profile with

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GMP Architekten set to “reinvent” roof of Roger Taillibert’s Olympic Stadium in Montreal

August 30, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

German architecture studio GMP Architekten has been selected to design a replacement for the roof of Roger Taillibert’s “controversial” Olympic stadium in Montreal for the studio’s first North American project. The ageing Olympic Stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert for the 1976 Montreal Summer Games and features a now-iconic angled tower that suspends

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MODA ramps rooftop garden along Calgary multifamily housing

August 16, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture studio Modern Office of Design + Architecture has wrapped a multifamily housing development in wood siding and topped it with ramped roof gardens in Calgary, Alberta. Known as GROW, the project includes 20 residential units and a 0.6-acre (0.24 hectares) urban farm in a “seamless milieu that blurs interior and exterior, as well

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Handel Architects completes “the largest Passive House building in Canada”

August 12, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

A university building in Toronto by Handel Architects has received formal recognition as a Passive House project, making it “the largest Passive House building in Canada”. Harmony Commons is a dormitory building at the University of Toronto Scarborough that accommodates 746 first-year students and contains a dining hall and offices. Located in the northern area of

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Naturehumaine perches stilted “micro chalet” within Canadian woodland

August 10, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Large windows create the feeling of sitting in a tree canopy at La Cime, a timber-clad holiday cabin that Canadian studio Naturehumaine has created in woodland in Lanaudière, Québec. La Cime, or The Top, is described by Naturehumaine as a one-bedroom “micro chalet”, with its sloping roof and wooden-plank cladding taking cues from traditional wooden

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Appareil Architecture tops a wooden Quebec home with a sloped single-pitch roof

August 8, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio Appareil Architecture has created a wooden, light-filled mountain house with a single-pitch roof in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Known as Résidence des Rapides, the three-bedroom house is partially embedded in a sloped four-acre site on the banks of the Diable River in the Laurentian Mountains. Montreal-based Appareil Architecture completed the cedar-clad house in 2023, informed

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