Simons, the 178-year-old, family-owned fashion retailer from Quebec City, today launched a new online market called Fabrique1840. The new retail community features an all-Canadian line up of skilled artisans creating everything from home décor and modern art to fashion accessories and stationary.
“The motivation behind Fabrique1840 is to create a mutually beneficial ecosystem,” says Peter Simons, Co-ow...
Margot Krasojević has designed a medical cannabis farm for both rural and urban agricultural programs; in light of Spain recently becoming an advocate for the use and distribution of medical marijuana this project is part of the initiative to use architecture as a tool for this legal transition, as well as addressing necessarily relevant growth conditions. As with all her work, this project em...
The fall focus on Belgium continues at the UQAM Centre for Design with the exhibition “Entrer:en interférence- cinq architectures en Belgique/cinq architectures au Québec” (Interference: Five Architectures in Belgium/Five Architectures in Quebec). Produced in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures, the exhibition brings together projects by five Belgian architectural firms and sets the...
Buildings and cityscapes have captured the human imagination for millennia. Urban landscapes, with their heady mix of architecture, thoroughfares and parks, chart the course of history. They describe the ideals, visions and aspirations of numerous individuals, in a small world filled with big ideas.
Pulsing and ever growing, cities and their buildings are like living organisms, providing places of refuge, ...
Architecture49 is proud to unveil its latest project, the clubhouse for Golf Exécutif Montréal, located on Nuns’ Island, a green oasis in the St. Lawrence River facing downtown Montreal. The building, which boasts an impressive wooden framework, is designed to offer its users an exceptional experience. It includes sheltered driving-range tees, a bar in the centre of a spacious lounge, a full re...
L A M P (Lighting Architecture Movement Project) is preparing for its sixth annual international lighting design competition and is sending out a call for entries to designers worldwide to participate. Submissions open October 1 and the deadline to submit is January 31, 2019.
In addition, L A M P is excited to announce its new partnership with Design Milk moving forward into the 2019 international lighting...
Recognising the need to identify and celebrate new design concepts and innovations in 2005, Red Dot Award for Design Concept have created an unprecedented platform that accept new ideas, design research projects and prototypes from institutions, companies, design teams and designers.
“Red Dot Award: Design Concept has been an indicator for the future of product and communication design—from electric a...
The Vallée du Parc Residence sits in a bucolic valley in Mauricie, a south-central region of Québec. Originally inspired by a reinterpretation of the work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the ground-floor plan is shaped by a studied insertion of various terraces and its relation to the automobile. From a distance, the eye is attracted by the complex angular roof that establishes a ge...
Provencher_Roy supports the exhibition
“ALEXANDER CALDER: RADICAL INVENTOR”
September 21, 2018, to February 24, 2019
at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The artist who set art in motion
The firm Provencher_Roy is a proud partner of the exhibition Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor,
which examines the work of the ingenious artist who “made sculpture move.” It is the first major Canadian ...
Since opening, noma has been at the forefront of gastronomy and creativity. The restaurant, recognized four times as best in the world by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, last year closed its doors to the 16th-century harborside warehouse that had been its home for fourteen years. After over three years of planning, noma’s new home reopened in February this year in a space developed and built...
A pioneer in the art of experiential lodging in Quebec, KABIN is proud to present its newcomer, BOHO Dunham, a concept that propels the trend of contemporary inns into a new era. This first in a series of BOHO boutique hostels, inspired by European boutique hostels, now all the rage in the United States, sits on the third floor of a historical building that houses the Dunham Brewery; a Quebec pride & joy, ...
Metaform and Mecanoo, Luxembourg and Netherlands based architecture offices, have won a competition to design a new Velodrome and a Sports Complex in Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg.
The Velodrome, Multi-Sports and Swimming Pool Complex project is inspired by its surroundings, a subtly undulating topography. The main challenge was to integrate all three functions under one roof while paying respect to the...
The TILE AWARD is aimed at young (interior) architects and is a creativity competition organised by the architectural ceramics specialist AGROB BUCHTAL. The main focus of this competition is to make the most of the possible designs of ceramic tiles through experimentation. The feedback from the première in 2010 was so tremendous that the competition was continued in 2012 and 2014 and was held f...
Most people need more time in their lives and more space in their homes. Introducing aux box, the answer to both. aux box is an affordable solution that adds customized space to one’s home in his or her own backyard. The aux box can be used ad a yoga studio/gym, writing sanctuary, art studio, guest room, kids play area, and/or home office.
aux box provides access and proximity to the space individuals an...
Launched at the 2018 Interior Design Show (IDS) in Toronto, ANONY’s Highwire pendant has been well received by the public and design professionals alike. Co-founders Christian Lo and David Ryan are thrilled with the positive response and plan to expand their line.
Highwire is a gravitational balancing act, created by tension between two points and a weighted centre. Its luminaries are composed of anodiz...
