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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Canada, Landscape architecture, Todd Saunders, Waterfront architecture
Saunders Architecture has designed the six artist studios to be located in various locations on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada. Here are 3 selected studios – The Long Studio, The Tower Studio, The Bridge Studio designed for Shorefast Foundation & The Fogo Island Arts Corporation. The idea behind the forms of the various studios was to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Installation Tags: Canada, Paul Raff Studio
FOLLIES, is the emergency exit buildings for a new transit line in Toronto, Canada designed by Paul Raff Studio. Each building successfully integrates life safety requirements within a strategy that also addresses issues of human scale, context, and beauty. + Architect’s statement by Paul Raff Studio Emergency exit buildings are required for public safety from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Canada, Community Center, ESD design, Exhibition, Green architecture, Paul Raff Studio, Refurbishment / Extension, Research
Paul Raff Studio has designed the Biosphere Sustainability Centre in the Thousand Island Region in Ontario, Canada, it is the multi-use cultural facility which will be a powerful catalyst to environmental, social and economic sustainable development. MISSION To partner and leverage natural and human capital to improve environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes by demonstrating [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Selected Tags: Canada, Library, Saucier + Perrotte architectes
The St-Hubert Library proposal by Saucier + Perrotte architectes was the competition finalist for City of St-Hubert in Canada. The building is beautifully sited in the wooden context and presented as a bold horizontal form in respect to its surrounding tree line, and finally punched through by a roof top feature where is reached via [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Canada, Glass, Random pattern, Saucier + Perrotte architectes
Canada-based firm Saucier + Perrotte architectes has designed an apartment building located between Bathurst and Portland streets in downtown Toronto, Canada. The project comprises two parallel buildings with dual frontages facing to both the streets, thanks to the series of rhythmic glass boxes pushing in and out where the living spaces and the private balconies [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Canada, Hong Kong, Kitmen Keung
Chinese-Canadian product designer Kitmen Keung has created a simple mouse pad featuring a slightly sloping edge to hold tiny accessories. The A4-size silicone piece brings together the convenience of a mouse pad and a resting place for tiny desktop accessories such as clips, erasers and pens in the form of a slightly inwards sloping edge. [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Sanitary Tags: Canada, Greentea Design
Greentea Design, is an online source for contemporary Japanese furniture, Asian furniture, and antique Oriental furniture. It is based in Canada and in the Riverdale Studio District just 10 minutes from downtown Toronto. If you are looking for bathroom furniture, perhaps the Greentea Design collections is one of the option for your bathroom. The bathroom [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Canada, Paul Raff Studio
Plan, elevation and section are always our favorite drawings to tell a full story to a project, further to our previous post of Eco-Friendly Cascade House by Paul Raff Studio. Here are the floor plan, elevation and section shared by architect Paul Raff Studio. Floor Plan courtesy of Paul Raff Studio Elevation & Section courtesy [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architecture Award, Canada, Paul Raff Studio, Pavilion
Canadian Architect Paul Raff, will be the first architect awarded both R.A.I.C. Awards of Allied Arts Medal and the honourable mention for Innovation in Architecture on June 20 in Montreal during the R.A.I.C. Festival of Architecture. + Press release Unprecedented winner of two R.A.I.C. Awards of Excellence leads trend toward a NEW integrity-based architecture. Canadian [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Canada, ESD design, Green architecture, Paul Raff Studio, Stair, Swimming pool
The multi-Award winning Cascade House by Canada-based architect firm Paul Raff Studio, is an eco-friendly house equipped with solar design systems. We always start from first principles of human scale and flow, and in search of opportunities to engage light and landscape, once we began to work with glass and slate, the house became characterized [...]
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