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Canada Architectural Updates in 2023

Canadian Building News in 2023, chronological:

17 November 2023
Chelsea Gardens Net Zero Affordable Housing, Brampton, Ontario
Design: Montgomery Sisam Architects

image : Montgomery Sisam Architects
Chelsea Gardens Net Zero Affordable Housing, Brampton
Chelsea Gardens is a highly-sustainable, 20-storey multi-unit residential building, that will bring 200 new affordable rental units to Brampton. It is one of 31 projects undertaken by the Peel Housing Corporation that aim to advance the 10-year Peel Housing and Homelessness Plan and is part of ongoing intensification efforts in the area.

Queen’s Marque, Halifax
Queen’s Marque, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Muskoka Residence Ontario

Muskoka Cottage Ontario, Canada home

Chester House, Nova Scotia Property

Cherry Valley House, Prince Edward County

Maison Melba, Frelighsburg, Québec Passive House

9 October 2023
Vivo for Healthier Generations, Country Hills, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Architects: DIALOG

photo : Tom Abran
Vivo for Healthier Generations, Calgary, Alberta
DIALOG, a design practice focused on improving the well-being of local communities, along with Vivo, have announced the opening of the reimagined Vivo for Healthier Generations facility in the northwest community of Country Hills

Lanaudière Residence, Montreal, Quebec

16 September 2023
Courtyard Residence, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Design: Secter Architecture + Design
Courtyard Residence, Winnipeg

Ferndale Flightdeck, Ottawa
Design: 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design
Ferndale Flightdeck, Ottawa, Ontario

20 August 2023
Solar Steps Affordable Housing Concept, Brampton, Ontario
Design: Nicole Cao

photo : Nicole Cao
Solar Steps Affordable Housing Concept, Brampton
This is a proposed affordable residence featuring a triple-storey ETFE greenhouse atrium. The building design explores how threshold materiality and operability could create new forms of collective living that empower residents to engage in the making of their own spaces.

Cloverdale Athletic Park Fieldhouse, Surrey, BC

La Percée Residence, the Laurentians, Quebec

Ronald McDonald House Atlantic, Halifax

Caivan and Abic Head Office
Caivan and Abic Head Office Ottawa Ontario
Figurr Architects Collective’s new head office design redefines the workplace experience for two innovative companies: Caivan and its subsidiary organization, the Advanced Building Innovation Company (ABIC). The design blends modern workplace elements with warm textures and natural light to create a space brimming with creativity.

Mountaintop Hideaway House on Mayne Island

Kamloops Residence, British Columbia

2 June 2023
Bowker Collection, Cadboro Bay Road, Victoria, British Columbia
Architecture: Cascadia Architects

photo : Marc Johannknecht
Bowker Collection Apartments, Victoria, British Columbia
The Bowker Collection is a mixed-use development consists of 43 condominiums and over 5 commercial suites situated along Cadboro Bay Road, Victoria. The building is designed in two parts, addressing the two streets and framing an interior, west-facing landscaped courtyard.

1 June 2023
The Clive Oak Bay Village, Victoria, British Columbia
Architecture: Cascadia Architects

photo : SilentSama Architectural Photography
The Clive Oak Bay Village, Victoria Apartments
The Clive is a purpose-designed 17-unit apartment building to replace an eight-unit apartment building in Oak Bay Village. Cascadia Architects designed the Clive to achieve a number of programmatic, urban design, and sustainability targets while remaining respectful of the scale and historic mixed commercial/residential typology of the Village.

31 May 2023
Tall Trees Integrated Health Centre, Victoria, British Columbia
Architecture: Cascadia Architects

photo : SilentSama Architectural Photography
Tall Tree Physiotherapy and Care Clinic Mattick’s, Victoria
The team at Tall Trees Integrated Health Centre needed a building that would support the holistic health of their patients, and foster learning, innovation, and expertise in healthcare. The clear brief was to create a space for healing within this unique forested site.

25 May 2023
Dyptique, Stanstead, Québec
Design: Matière Première Architecture
Dyptique House, Stanstead, Québec

12 May 2023
Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth, Forest Lawn, Calgary, Alberta
Architects: Lemay

image : Lemay
Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth HQ, Calgary, Alberta
Following 15 years of development, the indigenous-led, not-for-profit organization of the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY), is establishing a new youth centre in Calgary’s Forest Lawn neighbourhood—the traditional territory of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Iyarhe Nakoda, and Tsuut’ina Nations, as well as the Metis Nation of Region 3.

8 May 2023
House on Lake Arthur, Notre-Dame-De-La-Merci, Lanaudiere
Design: Ghoche Architecte
House on Lake Arthur, Québec

4 May 2023
Des Forges Residence, Boulevard des Forges area, Mauricie, Québec
Design: Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects
Des Forges Residence, Mauricie, Québec

25 April 2023
Columbia River Valley Lookout, Kootenay Mountain Range, British Columbia
Architects: Twobytwo Architecture Studio
Columbia River Valley Lookout, Kootenay Mountains, BC

22 April 2023
South Haven Centre for Remembrance, Edmonton, Alberta
Architects: SHAPE Architecture

photo : Ema Peter Photography
South Haven Centre for Remembrance, Edmonton, Alberta
The new South Haven Centre for Remembrance creates a new non-denominational landmark destination for the City of Edmonton. The design features a symbolic thirteen-meter tower which emerges from the prairie landscape which makes reference to the existing grave sites, monuments, columbaria and the latent memory that they embody.

March 28, 2023
Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
Design: EVOQ + ARTCAD architects in a joint venture
Rouyn-Noranda Airport Terminal, Quebec
Located in the heart of Canada’s boreal forest, the Cadillac-Larder Fault is a major geologic feature that cuts across Quebec’s Abitibi-Témiscamingue region and into Northern Ontario. It is the source of the region’s abundant mineral resources, and several major settlements were established along its length to engage in mining and forestry.

28 March 2023
La Tierce House, La Tierce Laurentides, Quebec
Design: Atelier BOOM-TOWN
La Tierce House, Laurentides, Quebec

26 March 2023
Devils Glen, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
Design: StudioAC
Devils Glen Cabin, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario

20 March 2023
Little Dipper, Muskoka Lakes, Ontario
Design: GREAT LAKE STUDIO
Little Dipper Cabin, Muskoka Lakes, Ontario

16 March 2023
GAO, Québec City
Architects: Perron

photo : Diane Blanchard
Vietnamese To Go, Québec City Building

10 March 2023
CAPO, Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix region, Quebec
Architects: AtelierCarle
CAPO House, Baie-Saint-Paul

8 March 2023
Scarcliffe Cottage, Muskoka Lakes, Ontario
Design: Altius Group of Companies
Scarcliffe Cottage on the Muskoka Lakes, Ontario

22 February 2023
Empire House, Rothesay, New Brunswick, eastern Canada
Design: Woodford Architecture
Empire House, St. John’s, Newfoundland

11 February 2023
Yeats House, Richmond, British Columbia
Architects: BLA Design Group
Yeats House, Richmond, British Columbia

10 February 2023
The Break House, Saint-Hyppolite, Quebec
Architects: MU Architecture
The Break House, Saint-Hyppolite, Quebec

8 February 2023
Prince-Phillip House, Outremont, Quebec
Architects: MXMA Architecture & Design
Prince-Phillip House, Outremont, Québec

3 February 2023
Hariri Pontarini Architects Presented with Top Architecture Award in Canada

photo : doublespace photography
Hariri Pontarini Architects

1 February 2023
Chalet_A, Eastern Townships near Montréal, Quebec
Architects: Matière Première Architecture
Chalet_A, Eastern Townships, Quebec

31 January 2023
Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Architecture: Provencher_Roy and Yelle Maillé

photos : Olivier Blouin and Stéphane Brügger
HSCM Luminous Expansion, Montreal, Quebec

24 January 2023
VIP Showroom, Montréal, Québec
Architecture: Imperatori Design

photo : Francois descoteaux
VIP Showroom, Montreal, Quebec Condominium

23 January 2023
S-pace 1628, Magog, Quebec
Architects: 1628

photo © Stéphane Groleau
S-pace 1628 Residence and Office, Magog, Quebec
The S-pace 1628 project, designed by 1628 and located a few steps from Lake Memphremagog in Magog, was created to house the offices of an architectural firm, as well as to serve as the residence of its leaders.