emerging talent

Once upon a year ago, Office OU entered a competition. It looked like an exceptionally good one to the young Toronto firm because it was an international open…

A parka is warm and enveloping, promising protection on a human scale. It’s an ideal name given the aspirations of Luc Bélanger and Geneviève Guimont, who…

“We’ve got a lot of tech today, but not a lot of talk,” says Alex Josephson, co-founder of Toronto’s PARTISANS. The five-year-old studio has created some…

If you ask its three co-founders about their firm’s name, you’ll get at least three answers. PLOTNONPLOT references CAD, with the plot and non-plot layers…

After three years designing for offices in Hong Kong, in 2013 itinerant travellers Arnold Chan, MRAIC and Casey Burgess took a huge leap of faith…

When she launched a solo practice in August 2010 out of a room in her house, Rayleen Hill, MRAIC had little idea where it might lead. “I pictured doing small…

In the website photo of Sixteen Degree Studio’s two principals, Kelly Doyle and Stephanie Vermeulen are wearing dark, monochromatic clothing and standing in…

When Jessie Andjelic and Philip Vandermey, MRAIC founded SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism in 2013, the University of Calgary grads set out to…

Matthew Kennedy, MRAIC and Mark Erickson have led eerily parallel lives. Both grew up in Calgary, attended the same high school, even drove the same kind of…

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