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Key recent properties include Dyptique, Stanstead, Québec, by Matière Première Architecture, and Columbia River Valley Lookout, Kootenay Mountain Range, British Columbia by Twobytwo Architecture Studio.
Also worth a visit are South Haven Centre for Remembrance, Edmonton, Alberta, Ronald McDonald House Atlantic, Halifax, Chibougamau-Chapais Airport, Chibougamau, Québec, and finally the Montreal Holocaust Museum New Downtown space.
E-architect feature a new youth centre for an indigenous-led, not-for-profit organization of the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth in Calgary’s Forest Lawn neighbourhood.
Design: Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes. This public place is located at the heart of Cap-aux-Meules, a village in the Magdalen Islands, on the ruins of a fish processing plant that was destroyed in a fire.
Design: Omar Gandhi Architect. Sitting atop a hillside adjacent to the Inverness Harbour and MacIsaac’s Pond, the cedar clad minimalist gable of this residence overlooks the town of Inverness and the critically acclaimed Cabot Links golf course
Design: MU Architecture. The residence design revolves around two off-centered volumes positioned to take in maximum sunlight and to make the most of the different viewpoints.
Design: Naturehumaine, architects. Having bought a beautiful plot of wooded land in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, the client dreamt of building a country house that would be in perfect symbiosis with its natural environment.
Design: Atelier Kastelic Buffey. Folding along the backbone of the Niagara Escarpment, this long, linear house is a delicate response to its landscape, as well as the architectural heritage of the region.
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects: The 1,500 sqm library building provides the Highlands’ community with a distinctive landmark which underlines that this new creative centre for learning is open and accessible
Design: +tongtong, architects. In the small historic town of Wellington, in Prince Edward County, Drake hotelier and visionary Jeff Stober enlisted design firm +tongtong under the direction of John Tong to reinvent a tired bed and breakfast and original c. 1880 foundry into an 11-room and two-suite contemporary inn.
Design: Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects. The name, Altaïr House, refers to the brightest star in the Aquila constellation. Altaïr House is located in Cap-à-l’Aigle, in the region of Charlevoix. Altaïr means “The Flying Eagle.” The building appears discrete from the street, but unfolds toward the river away from the street, as though ready to take flight.
The new Jasper Place Branch Library design reflects the Edmonton Public Library’s aspirations to create an open and memorable presence in the community.
The Squish Studio design by Saunders Architecture is just outside the small town of Tilting on the eastern end of Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Tilting is known for its strong Irish culture and its recent designation by Parks Canada as a National Cultural Landscape District of Canada.
Design: ACDF Architecture. The “Blanche” Chalet, whose name evokes the spirit of the vernacular houses of the region, is situated in La Malbaie’s area of the “Terrasses Cap à l’Aigle”.
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects + KWC Architects. This joint venture design to transform Ottawa’s century-old train station building to become an interim home for The Senate of Canada has been approved by the National Capital Commission.
The Pierre Lassonde Pavilion Québec building design by OMA, Architects with Provencher_Roy Architectes gradually decreases in height as it retreats from the urban turbulence, creating a cascade effect that enables the museum to reach out toward the park at the back while inviting the city in on the front.
Design: Jean Verville architecte
Nestled in the privacy of a hemlock forest, FAHOUSE presents an amazing building that seems to emerge from a children’s story. Exploiting the contrasts between opacity and light, the architect Jean Verville develops a graphic assemblage, which rises like two giant conifers.
Located in a quiet area of the Eastern Townships in Quebec, the Nook Residence design by MU Architecture sits in continuity with the landscape. Turning its back to the street, the property offers a virtually blind facade that encourages discovery and piques curiosity.
Design: Omar Gandhi Architect and Design Base 8. Lawrence MacIsaac recalls stories of his great grandfather using the property to teach his sons how to snare rabbits, while his great grandmother commonly used the ‘laundry stone’ at the bottom of a small waterfall to wash clothing.
Design: Studio North. Overlooking downtown Calgary from the inner-city community of Albert Park, this quaint mid-century bungalow is an experiment in enhanced residential density