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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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Maritime Revival
In transforming this 150-year-old row house in a gentrifying neighbourhood, the architects applied a contemporary approach to space planning while retaining character elements inside and out. Atlantic Canada’s economy has never matched that of richer and more populous parts of…
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…
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