New Westminster, B.C. architect Randy Bens transformed a shipping container into a backyard office that fits three employees. Since 2005, Randy Bens has run his residential architecture firm out of…
By Rebecca Keillor |
July 3, 2018
Section: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Canada
Founded by Lee Kline and Paul Lavoie, Beau Lake is an outdoor sports gear company focused on quality design. With paddle boards, pedal boats and dock chairs, the brand is making waterside recreation a thing of beauty.
By Elizabeth Pagliacolo |
July 3, 2018
Section: Design
Tags: Canada, Furniture, Product Design
Rainville-Sangaré’s phenomenal Habitat 67 renovation adds light, warmth and airiness to a decades-old suite while paying homage to Moshe Safdie’s legendary complex.
By Mark Teo |
July 3, 2018
Section: Interiors
Tags: Architecture, Canada, Interiors
In the future, Canadian skylines will look very, very different. From the nation’s tallest building to Inuit cultural centres in Newfoundland to starchitect-designed towers in the West, Azure’s editors have selected 10 new Canadian buildings to keep tabs on.
By Azure |
June 29, 2018
Section: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Canada
For celebrity chef David Chang’s first L.A. restaurant, Toronto-based DesignAgency turned a Chinatown warehouse into a buzzy industrial-chic restaurant.
By Mark Teo |
June 26, 2018
Section: Interiors
Tags: Canada, Commercial, Hospitality
Whether they’re resplendent second homes or a reaffirmation of the time-tested dockside experience, these contemporary Canadian cottages elevate a summer tradition.
By Mark Teo |
June 22, 2018
Section: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Canada
Design Canada, a new documentary from the team behind Helvetica, introduces us to the graphic designers behind the nation’s most iconic logos.
By Erin Donnelly |
June 19, 2018
Section: Curiosity
Philip Beesley and Iris van Herpen are kindred spirits. Transforming Fashion, their exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, combines couture and installations to present an experience that’s wonderfully unusual.
By Catherine Osborne |
June 13, 2018
Section: Curiosity
Tags: Art, Canada, Exhibition, Fashion
The Art of Banksy includes more than 80 of the mysterious street artist’s works. Ahead of the $35 million exhibit, we catch up with curator Steve Lazarides to talk Banksy – and why he chose to bring the showcase to Canada.
By Tory Healy |
June 12, 2018
Section: Curiosity
Tags: Art, Canada, Exhibition
Unceded, Canada’s contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale, is an exhibit that has no precedent – the coming together of first nations firms from across Turtle Island (a.k.a. North America) in an exploration of Indigenous architecture.
By Tim Querengesser |
June 8, 2018
Section: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Canada
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