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Toronto Tile House blends contemporary forms with traditional materials
Tile House by architects Kohn Shnier is a modern interpretation of the historical residences of its Toronto suburb
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The Rock is a home rooted in the Canadian mountains
London architects Gort Scott create The Rock, a contemporary family home inspired by the scenery at the Canadian mountains of Whistler
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Circular Winnipeg housing rises above ground like a flying saucer
Architecture firm 5468796 has designed circular housing in Winnipeg that's ready for lift off
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Family retreat on Bowen Island is a modern rethink of a woodland cabin
This British Columbia family retreat on Bowen Island is a light and modern interpretation of a woodland cabin, designed by Vancouver based architects omb
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Reigo & Bauer modernise a Toronto townhouse
The complete transformation of an existing townhouse in Toronto's Forest Hill neighbourhood by architecture studio Reigo & Bauer draws on a vision for a modern, dynamic and very liveable new interior
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Architect Omar Gandhi combines home and office life in Halifax
Not content with building a home and office in Halifax, Nova Scotia, just for himself, Canadian architect Omar Gandhi has dedicated nearly an entire floor of his new space to working on pro bono projects to improve the local area
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Canadian farmhouse becomes a sensitively reimagined family home
Scott and Scott Architects reimagines the remains of an old barn structure into a respectful home that is tied to its context in Canada's West Coast
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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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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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Arthur Mudry’s midcentury modern house in West Vancouver is a paean to the Pacific forest
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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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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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A new lifestyle emporium in Vancouver reads like a sleek, new world souk
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La Glace — Vancouver, Canada
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Back to the future: a new Vancouver eatery marries different eras
