multi-unit residential

A look at the latest mass timber innovations by Michael Green Architecture, Moriyama Teshima Architects, Acton Ostry Architects, and Intelligent City.

PROJECT Hollywood Theatre & Residences, Vancouver, British Columbia ARCHITECT MA+HG Architects TEXT Benny Kwok PHOTOS Ema Peter and Janis Nicolay, as…

PROJECT Telus Sky, Calgary, Alberta ARCHITECTS Bjarke Ingels Group (Design Architect) with DIALOG (Architect of Record) TEXT Trevor Boddy PHOTOS Laurian…

PROJECT Maison de Lauberivière, Quebec City, Quebec ARCHITECT Lafond Côté Architectes TEXT Olivier Vallerand PHOTOS Charles O’Hara, unless otherwise noted…

In the west end of downtown Montreal, an area densely packed with residential highrises, the appearance of a new apartment tower is not usually a…

PROJECT Ace Hotel, Toronto, Ontario ARCHITECT Shim-Sutcliffe Architects TEXT Bill Curran PHOTOS Scott Norsworthy, unless otherwise noted Hotels matter…

In late June, we sat down with Canadian-born, L.A.-based architect Frank Gehry. Gehry was back in his hometown, Toronto, for the launch of Forma, a pair of…

Certain works of architecture are so carefully woven into the times, places and cultures within which they are set, they seem to have always been there. Such…

PROJECT Pearl Block, Victoria, British Columbia ARCHITECT D’Arcy Jones Architects TEXT Paul Koopman PHOTOS Ema Peter Photography A four-storey rowhouse…

PROJECT Grosvenor Ambleside, West Vancouver, BC ARCHITECT James K.M. Cheng Architects TEXT Sean Ruthen Discussions of the “missing middle” often focus on…

TEXT Trevor Boddy For over a century, ‘architectural zoos’ have been permanent collections of architectural animals—one example each from the leading species…

PROJECT GROW, Calgary, Alberta ARCHITECT Modern Office of Design + Architecture PHOTOS Ema Peter GROW, a striking 20-unit rental apartment development by…

PROJECT Ken Soble Tower, Hamilton, Ontario ARCHITECT ERA Architects Inc. As the effects of the climate crisis take hold, it is increasingly clear that to be…

GBL Architects has recently completed the multifamily residential development SOMA on Cambie located in Vancouver. The 28,000-square-foot development aligns…

Book by Avi Friedman (Thames & Hudson, 2021) Pre-Fab Living provides a timely overview of current pre-fabrication technologies through a collection of…

“Show me a wealthy architect,” architect Lloyd Hunt once quipped to his class at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, “and I’ll show you a…