The project, located in Quebec City’s leafy Montcalm neighborhood, stays true to Lapierre's ethos of celebrating the ordinary—with extraordinary results.
Seeking to avoid a gut renovation, the 2009 Design Vanguard preserves period touches while updating a stately 1892 structure under a breakneck timeframe.
Updating the limestone-clad 1905 structure required serious interventions, including inserting a sky-lit central staircase to directly connect the garden level with the rest of the house.
Planning for the five-bedroom dwelling began with mapping out a perimeter around the root system of a sprawling rubber tree, adored by the clients, on the site.
Featuring indoor and outdoor spaces that flow into each other and clad in charred timber, Translators’ House was designed for husband-wife scholars of Japanese and their children.