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Lemay, Perkins+Will, and Bisson Fortin to design Montreal’s REM stations
One of North America’s largest public transportation projects, the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) will transform the Greater Montreal Region public transport experience with some of the nation’s most inspiring, meaningful and transformative architecture and design. Award-winning firms Lemay, Perkins+Will and… →
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In The Black
The upgrading of Montréal’s aging housing stock has attracted a rich variety of responses over the last few years from the city’s young architects, who skillfully adapt their work to the particular character of distinct neighbourhoods. The firm Natalie Dionne…
Design Excavation
Three blocks east of Main Street in Vancouver’s Little Mountain neighbourhood, the 480 House project of D’Arcy Jones Architecture (DJA) sits on a gentle incline overlooking the north end of what early settlers called the Tea Swamp. Unlike Vancouver’s tectonically…
A meeting with B. V. Doshi and a conversation on the 1958 Toronto City Hall and Square Competition
‘Sangath, it’s an architect’s office isn’t it?’ asks the auto-rickshaw driver as we make our way through Ahmedabad’s late afternoon traffic. By this point, I’m accustomed to the organized chaos of Indian driving and the apparent ease of drivers to find…
Learning from Balkrishna Doshi
For the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi, architecture is “never about resolving a problem; it is about discovery in the joy of making.” Doshi worked with Le Corbusier in Paris from 1951-54 and later supervised Corbusier’s work in…
Home Truths
For the Communist Party of China, housing has always been a tool to control the population. State-run businesses initially delivered units under the aegis of the Party. Nowadays, even though housing is delivered through the mechanisms of a market economy,…
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