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Building Of The Day: Sculptural Affordable Housing By Teeple Architects
Building: 60 Richmond Street Architect: Teeple Architects Location: Toronto, Canada Why We Liked This: The architects wanted a design that considered new approaches to urban infill. To do this, they...
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MAD’s “Marilyn Monroe” Towers Sex Up Canadian Skyline
The burgeoning city of Mississauga, Canada, just unveiled a pair of curvaceous towers. Chinese firm MAD saw a unique opportunity in Mississauga’s up-and-coming status to create a new kind of...
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Cha-Ching: MAD Completes $1.5B Horseshoe-Shaped Resort In China
Photo courtesy Starwood Hotels Beijing-based firm MAD Architects has been on a roll—in fact, if you remember correctly, they made our list of the top five firms that kicked ass in 2012. We were...
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Featured Project: Cozy Cottage On A Lake By MJMA
Project: Clear Lake House Architect: MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects Location: Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada Toronto-based architects MJMA designed a cottage for a family of five that appears...
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On Toronto’s Waterfront: Why We’re Excited For The Pan American Games Pavilion
Toronto is going through a major, more glamorous, transformation right now, thanks largely to an ambitious plan to redevelop its waterfront. The new, LEED-certified George Brown Waterfront Health...
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A+ Finalist Spotlight: Schools
If you haven’t noticed, we’ve made sort of a big deal about education in the past couple days. Between nurseries and all-around learning, it’s more than an important topic. Today we are featuring all...
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A+ Finalist Spotlight: Student Design/Build
We’ll say it first: Public Voting is winding down real soon, so vote now! Today we’re featuring the amazing student design/build finalists. These five teams of budding architects have made the jump...
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Featured Project: Station Blü Spa By Blouin Tardif
Project: Station Blü Architect: Blouin Tardif Architecture-Environnement Location: Saint-Tite-des-Caps, Quebec, Canada Situated on the outskirts of Charlevoix, Station Blü Spa melds sleek...
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Featured Project: An Elegant Home On A Glacial Seascape
Project: Two Hulls House Architect: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Floating above the coastal shoreline of Nova Scotia, the two pavilions of MacKay-Lyon’s...
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The Best Place To Store Your Boat
This project won the 2013 Architizer A+ Jury Award in the port facilities and boat pier category. See the full list of winners here. Tony Guertin, CEO of a paint and coating company, fell in love with...
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Cubic Pharmaceutical Building Captures The Popular Vote!
This project won the 2013 Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award in the Higher Education & Research Facilities category. See the full list of winners here. The sleek Pharmaceutical Sciences building...
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Photos Capture Dazzling Sights Of Toronto Cityscape
Photographer Tom Ryaboi loves the excitement that comes with travel, and from his dazzling photos of Toronto that we spotted on imgur, we see his commitment to exploration taken to soaring heights....
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Sports Complex Lunges And Leaps Dynamically, Gets A Medal
Images courtesy of MJMArchitects, photos by Tom Arban. The Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is an adaptive reuse of an existing sports complex. The MacLennan...
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Frank Gehry Designs Three Towers For Toronto
California-based starchitect Frank Gehry is switching it up with his design for three towers in Toronto. The towers are quite different from 8 Spruce Street, his previous entry into the typology,...
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Happy 75th Birthday, Moshe Safdie!
A young Moshe Safdie and a model of his Habitat project. Photo via Pioneers, too, grow up. Hard to believe, but architect Moshe Safdie—whose 1960s ideas still seem inconceivably fresh and exciting...
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19 New UNESCO World Heritage Sites
In a June meeting in Cambodia, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided to add 19 sites to its list of culturally or historically significant locations. Some of these sites are buildings, or series of...
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