Tag Archives: Canada

Private Luxury Residence in Thornbury, Canada

These elegantly crafted stone, timber and glass homes overlook the spectacular ever-changing vistas of the Georgian Bay, the award winning Golf Course and the Niagara Escarpment countryside. New Private Residences at the Georgian Bay Club feature uniquie design elements and luxury details that would normally be found only in the finest custom homes. by Sotheby’s International […]

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Interview with French architect Edouard François

During Vis-à-vis Architecture, the famous french architect Edouard François was invited by the Embassy of France in Ottawa. Before giving a speech at the conference, we had the chance to ask him a few questions about his work and his stay in the capital city of Canada. Here is the English version of the interview. […]

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Mistassini Theatre by Paul Laurendeau

In 2006, Paul Laurendeau Architect won the national architecture competition to design the 491-seat Dolbeau-Mistassini Theatre, in joint venture with Jodoin Lamarre Pratte & Ass. Architectes. The building is strategically located in the centre of the city of Dolbeau-Mistassini. It represents a new major cultural institution. Its main street facade uses elements found in theatre language: […]

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The architecture of Moshe Safdie: A man of the world

Legos are more than a toy for the world-famous architect Moshe Safdie. They were the inspiration for one of his most famous works. Martha Teichner has the portrait of an artist on top of the world. by CBS Sunday Morning Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA (born July 14, 1938) is an Israeli/Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, […]

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ASP Project: 208 Sunview Street, Waterloo, Ontario

208 Sunview is a 12 storey mixed-use development consisting of 11 floors of residential units stacked above ground floor commercial and administration programs. As the delivery architects for 208 Sunview, our responsibilities revolved around providing a comprehensive Integrated Project Delivery solution for the realization of the original design. Scope of Work: Delivery architects, coordination of […]

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Architecture – A Performing Art by John Andrews

Made by Film Australia 1979. Directed by Michael Robertson. John Andrews is a world-famous Australian architect. In the mid-1960s, when only 29, Andrews was commissioned to design Scarborough College at Toronto University. One of the world’s first ‘megastructures’, it was an important experiment in urban and educational planning. Andrews also designed the Canadian National Tower […]

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Frank O Gehry – The Bilbao Guggenheim

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. post by Sivakumar Thangavelu   It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the […]

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Neeraj Bhatia. Architecture and Landscape Architecture Lecture Series

Neeraj Bhatia is an architect and urban designer from Toronto. His work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. Bhatia is a codirector of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics, and the founder of The Open Workshop, a design office examining the project of plurality. […]

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Art Gallery of Alberta Architect Randall Stout

The newly-renovated Art Gallery of Alberta, located in downtown Edmonton AB Canada, opened on January 31, 2010. The building is a 85,000 sq ft gallery featuring 6000+ pieces of artwork. Architect Randall Stout talks about the elements that inspired the new building. post by akmartin808

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Edmonton Arena District Development

The new Edmonton Arena District Development will re-locate the home of the Oilers NHL hockey team to the heart of downtown Edmonton and serves as a catalyst for creating new linkages and opportunities in the city’s core. Within the master plan of this major revitalization project, a number of new facilities and amenities will be […]

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