Designed by ARCHITEM Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski architectes, Trois-Rivières Amphitheatre is located in Trois-Rivières, Canada. Inspired by the town’s history, with its roots in the lumber industry, Architem’s project creates an icon in the landscape and focuses on the connection to the water. The forest informs and inspires the building’s architectural design expression. The exterior...
The Sûreté du Québec Mlll District Regional Headquarters designed by Services intégrés Lemay et associés is located in Mascouche, Canada. The distribution in a cross shape, slightly off-centred, allowed the public entrance to be moved away from the secured entrances. The architects proposed a compact volumetry, reducing the building’s footprint and envelope, maximising interior / exterior...
Designed by WZMH Architects, Durham Region Courthouse is located in Oshawa, Canada. A large outdoor public space, Courthouse Square, acts as the forecourt to the building entrance and creates opportunities for civic engagement. The scale of the main entrance pavilion on the square establishes a sense of dignity, appropriate for the front door of a courthouse. The courthouse elevations are highly transparent,...
The New National Music Centre designed by Allied Works Architecture is located in Calgary, Canada. The new centre, which incorporates the now defunct King Eddy Hotel, a legendary house of blues, will be part museum, part education and outreach facility, and part performance space. The building is designed as a series of ‘resonant vessels’ that are linked by a two- storey bridge. Like the instruments...
The Fogo Island Studios designed by Saunders Architecture is located in Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada. The creation of a foundation and the architectural infrastructure for an artist residency program, according to Cobb’s plan, could attract well-known artists; the international visibility derived from the program would bring high-end tourists; tourism would create jobs, and the island’s...