Projects

The new TELUS Garden building in Vancouver attempts a delicate balance between fitting into its urban context and creating a distinct architectural brand for…

A municipal operations centre in Surrey shows that architecture for the mundane business of public works can be far from ordinary.

Emerging firm PARTISANS revamped the Hearn Generating Plant to host this year's Luminato Arts Festival.

To hear them tell it, the business relationship between the partners of Pelletier de Fontenay was almost inevitable. When they were students, Hubert…

“Life’s a little slower here, and that means we can allow ourselves more time to think about process,” Jane Abbott says, explaining why she and her partner…

The name 2Architecture has a simple origin story: “Two motivated people, who wanted to influence the world of architecture,” explains Chris Gilmour, MRAIC,…

At the recent Festival of Architecture in Nanaimo, BC, members of the RAIC voted on a proposal to change the organization’s designation structure (see CA, May…

“Architecture isn’t just for the elite,” Marianne Amodio says. “It can live in the mid-range zone.” In affordability-challenged Vancouver, these are fighting…

The office of Microclimat Architecture is cheerfully cluttered and buzzing with music as the team builds a temporary pavilion for Montreal’s Village Éphémère…

Work/Shop came about from a simple desire: “I needed to get out from behind the computer,” says founder Liane Veness. “As architects, we cannot become master…

“Ideas are cheap,” says Jesse Garlick, MRAIC, 40, of Vancouver’s Platform Architecture + Design. “Finding a way to make them happen is the key.” Since…

When Dustin Couzens, 42, and Ben Klumper, 43, aren’t making buildings, they’re making music—and they say their creative process is similar for both. Instead…