With plans for a permanent museum in downtown Toronto well underway, Neon Museum Toronto is partnering with Slate Asset Management and Neon Demon to bring a Pop-Up Neon Gallery to the Junction House Sales Gallery for one weekend in April.
The Pop-Up Neon Gallery at Junction House will be free and open to the public, and…
Renovations to Montreal’s Biodome will mean 4,500 animals who have called it home will be moving out temporarily.
They will mainly be housed in and around the city during the major year-long renovation work which begins April 3.
But temporary digs have also been found elsewhere in Canada and the U.S. until the Biodome reopens in late…
In May and June, the one-day DesignEx trade shows are coming to Okanagan, British Columbia, and Kitchener, Ontario, creating a showcase for the local and national design industry. According to the Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) "DesignEx trade shows are a great alternative to regular trade shows. They are cost-effective, intimate events where instead of…
With the west coast's BUILDEX Vancouver now in full swing, next month will see the BUILDEX brand make its way east to Edmonton, where the city's largest trade show and conference for the construction, renovation, architecture, interior design, and property management industries will take place on March 20 and 21.
Part of the Informa Exhibitions family,…
On February 14 and 15, BUILDEX Vancouver will take over the Vancouver Convention Centre West, bringing together over 14,000 attendees, 600 exhibits, and more than 80 educational seminars. As Western Canada's largest trade show and conference for the Construction, Renovation, Architecture, Interior Design and Property Management industries, the two-day BUILDEX Vancouver is a key part…
Hillcrest Mall announces a major interior overhaul and reveals plans for its North Wing reconfiguration, formerly occupied by a 133,000 sq. ft. Target. Fall 2018 will see a 46,450 sq. ft. junior anchor, Marshalls and HomeSense (combined) join Hillcrest’s collection of lifestyle retailers, with additional North Wing retail to be announced. The entrance leading to…
Loki Box 2017 rendering
Loki Box Design, a Canadian international award-winning design firm, is bringing mobile architecture to the forefront of the marketing world at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The firm will support Bell and L'Oréal by creating nontraditional structures out of shipping containers to host the two largest activations of TIFF, held…
The 2015 wing, image via Sherway Gardens
Already one of Canada's largest malls, Toronto's CF Sherway Gardens, has gotten even bigger. With a $550 million redevelopment and expansion of the Etobicoke mall set to be unveiled to the public on Tuesday, August 29. Designed by Cadillac Fairview's in-house team in collaboration with Montreal-based interior designers Gervais Harding…
Image: Diamond Schmitt Architects
Canada’s largest academic library is growing. A major expansion of Robarts Library at the University of Toronto will add 1,200 work and study spaces to the iconic facility, which is known as an exemplar of the concrete Brutalist style of architecture from the 1960s.
The new design by Diamond Schmitt Architects…
Courtesy of Diamond Schmitt Architects
Toronto's Drake Hotel is about to enlarge its footprint on vibrant Queen Street West with a design by Diamond Schmitt Architects.
The Hotel will add 32 guest rooms and an expanded lobby in a thoughtful yet provocative addition to the original building from the 1890s. “Our design for the expanded Drake…