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BIG's Vancouver House penthouse makes minimalism warm
A raw, minimalist home atop Bjarke Ingels Group's Vancouver House is composed by Leckie Studio as a warm, organic space filled with textured, natural materials
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Architects Directory alumnus MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple tours new residential project
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; while always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. One of the first Wallpaper* Architects Directory alumni, featured in 2002, Brian MacKay-Lyons gives us a tour of his firm's latest residential project, Mountainside, a ski retreat on the slopes of Utah.
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Contemporary Newfoundland cabin offers spectacular views
A Newfoundland cabin, Halfway Hill House, is designed by Woodford Architecture and combines style and sustainable architecture
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Omer Arbel's Pacific North West house is built on concrete ‘lily pads’
Construction progresses fast at OAO's new residential design in Canada's Pacific North West, where Bocci creative director and practice founder Omer Arbel's sculptural concrete and experimental methods take centre stage
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Battersby Howat creates bold geometry for a ravine-hugging home in North Vancouver
Challenging topography and a triangular lot inspired this modernist mountainside retreat designed for an entrepreneur
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Beaux arts and brutalism reimagined on the Ottawa architecture scene
Canada’s national capital is a theatrical set piece of symbolic real estate, with Parliament Hill, Confederation Square and the Senate all within a few hundred metres of each other. Here architecture is a performative act.
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Vancouver House by BIG gears up for completion
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Scale meets ambition in Vancouver’s architectural future
The latest instalment in our ‘Letter from...' series journeys through the urban future of Canada's ‘most liveable city’
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Montreal’s design scene lights up with new show inspired by camping in the wilderness
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Habitat ’67 duplex unit renovated to original conditions by Safdie Architects in Montréal
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Edward Burtynsky surveys the devastating scale of man’s footprint on the planet
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Ones to watch on Canada’s west coast design scene
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Tour West Vancouver’s considerable cache of midcentury modernist homes
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Vancouver exhibition celebrates mid-century architecture photographer Selwyn Pullan
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Landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on why it should be easier to be green
A version of this article originally appeared in the May 2018 issue of Wallpaper* (W*230)
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Shigeru Ban’s timber-framed Terrace House breaks ground in Vancouver
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Henriquez Partners’ futuristic vision for Vancouver’s Oakridge shopping centre
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Japanese lantern: Ottawa’s National Arts Centre glows from within
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La Glace — Vancouver, Canada
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Back to the future: a new Vancouver eatery marries different eras
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Vancouver’s modernist house tour takes us inside the great outdoors
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In Vancouver, architect Arno Matis blends Asian and West Coast design
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Ottawa comes in from the cold as the Andaz hotel opens up
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A Vancouver vegetarian pizza joint embodies a new world lunch counter
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Night visions: Façade Festival 2016 lights up the streets of Vancouver
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Vancouver-based chef David Hawskworth opens casual restaurant, Nightingale
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Round the houses: we join West Vancouver Museum’s Modern Home Tour
