Carole Lévesque went in search of Montreal’s of "terrains vagues", abandoned or undeveloped patches of land, such as empty lots and wild greenspaces. The exhibition La précision du vague is the result of three and a half years of work carried out by this professor at the UQAM School of Design. Working with a team of assistants, she created a kind of atlas of terrains vagues, using various representatio...
Mantab Workplace is one of S/LAB10’s latest endeavours. Comprising a complete internal overhaul of an existing bungalow—the team was required to re-examine the office/workspace typology in a Southeast Asian climate and locality for a local property development company in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in producing the final design scheme. The firm required not just a workspace for its growing team, but a...
ExpoWanted is the design competition created by DesignWanted, an Italian digital design media based in Milan.
Design is democratic, the value of the competition is to allow anyone with talent to compete and access the most prestigious stage in the world: the Milan Design Week.
Students, designers, architects, design studios and companies are invited to the competition, which is already online.
The only discr...
Its location, on a lot with a clear view and north-south orientation, in one of the Island of Montreal’s most exclusive municipalities – a garden city with some 32,000 trees – won the hearts of the young newlyweds. Inside, however, the house had serious issues.
Brought in to consult, designer Martine Brisson identified the main problems immediately. Wasted space from the convoluted layout; a dated layout...
Under the thematic “Beauty”, 10 teams and one university invited, the Cooper Union, Institute for Sustainable Design, New York City, will realize an installation in the historical center of Montpellier.
Each installation created by an architect team allows highlighting the work of a younger generation which is inventing, experimenting and exploring new environmental designs. The festival offers them the opp...
Located in the Collegetown section of Ithaca, New York, one block from Cornell’s main campus, the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education is a seven-story, 76,000-square-foot, twenty-first-century teaching and learning environment, and the first academic building to be built on this burgeoning precinct of the Cornell campus. State-of-the-art classrooms are supported by breakout rooms, faculty and st...
Informa Canada produces and manages over 45 annual conferences, trade and consumer shows in the construction, design, craft, art, real estate, and furniture sectors, including the Interior Design Show, IIDEXCanada, the Artist Project and Fan Expo. Informa is known for their global and holistic approach, offering unparalleled opportunities for industry insight from around the world, with a mandate of...
Recently awarded at the Grands Prix du Design, category "common area", this LEED silver expansion project offers a new everyday life at the CSN's head office, thus improving the quality of life of users and residents of the neighbourhood.
Located in the Ville-Marie district, east of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, the head office of the CSN (Confédération des syndicats nationaux), a brutalist building ...
The project brief is to design an offshore lighthouse hotel. The design criteria address renewable energy, harnessing wave energy to generate electricity by using the building's form.
New building typologies should replace redundant ones, creating symbiotic relationships between various programs and supporting renewable energy by harnessing it as part of the building's infrastructure, whereby interdisciplin...
The installation with its green-painted shelving, walls and surfaces had s...
Room to breathe, a space for action, a place for small escapes and a den for sleeping half hidden behind rotatable panels – this is what “Das Haus” by Studio Truly Truly presented at the international interiors show imm cologne 2019, which ended last weekend. A...
The client wanted to transform and expand a two-storey building on Van Horne Avenue in Outremont, Montreal. The ground floor was to be used for commercial purposes, while the second floor would have an apartment for rent and the third floor would be the client’s home. Of the existing building, only the concrete structure of the ground floor was to be preserved.
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The project plays w...
Enticy is a boutique condo project coming soon to downtown Montreal, at the corner of René-Lévesque and Mackay. This unique 24-story project combines old and new, with a contemporary design built around a façade of historical townhouses. The team behind the real estate project includes financial partner Claridge, builders Omnia Technologies, and architects Geiger Huot.
Enticy is set in a prime location i...
