Articles Tagged with ''Canada''

The Tannery

February 15, 2011
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Program: A 480,000-square-foot mixed-use office and commercial complex spanning a city block in downtown Kitchener. The project transforms a defunct tannery into a hub for the area's growing technology sector, with office tenants including Communitech and Google, public courtyards and event space, a health clinic, and workspace for local artisans, among them a photographer and a cabinet maker. Design concept and solution: Seeking to bridge Kitchener's industrial heritage and its recent tech-sector activity, the RAWdesign team wanted to streamline the site's maze of buildings and add-ons without uprooting the existing artisan-tenants. RAW preserved the masonry shell and divided the site
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Green Blais Residence by architectsAlliance

Beaver Valley, Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada
September 16, 2010
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The Green-Blais residence is located on a rolling field overlooking Beaver Valley on the Niagara Escarpment, one of Canada’s most significant landforms and a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.


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Galley House

August 16, 2010
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The Galley House emerged out of the context of studying patterns of the evolving typological landscape in Toronto, and the desire over the past century to maintain natural light within spaces affected by an urban block-type progressively becoming more dense and refined.


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Canada Line

Katharine Logan
February 19, 2010
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Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect Total Lighting Solutions lights the way for Vancouver's new transit system Soft, tranquil, diffuse — not words you would expect to describe the light in a subway. Vancouver’s new Canada Line, an extension of the city’s rapid-rail transit, opened in August 2009, ahead of schedule for the 2010 Olympics, and is already carrying more than 100,000 passengers a day — well above anticipated ridership. Worth about 10
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VIA Architecture Canada Line Lighting Projects

Katharine Logan
February 19, 2010
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Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Project Specs Canada Line British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect << Return to article the People Owner: Public Private Partnership Project. Funded by the Government of Canada, Province of British Columbia, Vancouver Airport Authority, the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (Translink – formerly named Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority) and City of Vancouver. Participating Agency:  City of Richmond “Design, Build, partially Finance, Operate and Maintain” project. – The Concessionaire for the Project is
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Peace Bridge

Mulvey+Banani illuminate the U.S. Peace Bridge to Canada.
David Sokol
November 19, 2009
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The Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo to Fort Erie, Ontario, commemorates cordial relations between Canada and the United States.


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Whistler Public Library

Hughes Condon Marler Architects showcase locally sourced hemlock in Whistler's new public library.
Jane Kolleeny
October 1, 2009
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As the key location for skiing events at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Whistler, British Columbia, will no doubt be irrevocably imprinted on people’s minds this winter.


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