Called the "Rio de Janeiro of North America" by Alexander Graham Bell, due to the picturesque Bras d'Or Lake punctuated by the sizeable island just offshore
Last November, as Wuhan, China was hosting its 5th Design Biennale, no one could have suspected how appropriate the timing would be for the City of Montreal to unveil its ambitious new Biodiversity Corridor project
baukultur/ca develops two light-filled modern homes on an infill lot in downtown Toronto, designed to exceed NetZero Ready standards and support sustainable and healthy living
As the house is a veterans' house, a typical dwelling in Montreal's working-class neighbourhoods in the 1950s, it was important to respect its architectural heritage. The challenge was to highlight the characteristic volumetry of this type of building while giving it a second life that better met the space needs of the new owners
How Toronto-based architect William Dewson has used a succession of projects by early 20th century architect Hamilton Townsend, to define his “Rosedale Revival” approach to 100+ years-old renovations and applied the lessons learned along the way to develop modern, highly sustainable typologies as a nod to Toronto’s cultural past.
