Acton Ostry Architects' award-winning Alhambra + Garage + Cordage + Grand + Terminus involved the integration of six- and seven-storey residential buildings with two-storey commercial space and existing three- and four-storey frontages.

AIBC Architectural Awards

Themes of adaptive reuse and fresh design were front and centre at the 2010 Annual AIBC Architectural Awards, revealed Saturday at the Architectural Institute of British Columbia's annual conference. A total of 11 awards were bestowed upon British Columbia's architectural leaders, including two Lieutenant-Governor Award in Architecture medals; four Lieutenant-Governor Award in Architecture merit awards;…

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Nigel Parish of splyce received the Residential Wood Design Award for the Shuswap Cabin; the jury commented on its simplicity and elegance, along with its success at marrying a  traditional cabin vernacular with a modern architectural language.

Winning wood

More than 300 design and building professionals -- including architects, engineers, project teams and industry sponsors, along with B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and speaker Patrick Moore -- gathered recently to honour the nominees and winners of the 2010 Wood WORKS! BC Wood Design Awards. The 6th annual awards evening in…

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The North Bank - Edmonton's most vibrant and exciting future destination - is a banner for a series of synchronized initiatives.

“Touching the water” in Edmonton

Edmonton's West Rossdale Urban Design Plan and The North Bank (Edmonton Legacy) have been recognized by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) with a National Honour Award in the Planning & Analysis category. Carlyle + Associates, prime consultant for the project, shares The North Bank (Edmonton Legacy) honour with Cohos Evamy integratedesign, the architectural…

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Ground floor of 7 Legends Suite Club. with bar and stairs to lower level.

II BY IV X 2 (March 16, 2010)

International award–winning Toronto firm II BY IV Design Associates was honoured with two awards from the A.R.E, Association of Retail Environments. The ARE Awards is the premier industry competition honouring innovation and excellence in design, originality in the use of space and materials, quality in executing the total concept, and in some cases, the highest…

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Seymourpowell"s Aircruise is the concept design for a hotel in the sky, with low passenger numbers and huge internal spaces offering room for living, dining and relaxing.

Hotel in the sky

Leading design and innovation company Seymourpowell has unveiled the full details of its visionary transportation concept, Aircruise  - a giant, vertical airship powered by natural energy and designed to carry travellers in style and luxury. Originally a self-generated project, Seymourpowell’s Aircruise is the concept design for a hotel in the sky, with low…

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The design proposal by Leblanc + Turcotte + Spooner offers a modular, scalable solution.

A better bus shelter

The mayor of Montreal, Gérald Tremblay – accompanied by the chairman of the board of the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), Michel Labrecque, and the executive committee member responsible for Culture, Heritage and the Status of Women, Helen Fotopulos – has unveiled the winning concept in the city bus shelter design competition, submitted by…

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Hansgrohe's Axor Starck luxury collection graces bathrooms in the 828-metre Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.

High on Hansgrohe

When the highest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa – named Burj Dubai while under construction – was officially opened on January 4 in Dubai, Hansgrohe AG (www.hansgrohe.com) from Schiltach in the Black Forest also joined in the celebrations. The reason: the German bathroom fittings and shower manufacturer supplied more than 5,000 fittings for…

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Designed with modular components and an intelligent rail system, Tisch can be easily reconfigured as workplace needs change and evolve.

GOOD for Tisch

Inscape's Tisch table-based system has been honored with a GOOD DESIGN award (conferred annually by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies). Tisch is a European-designed table-based system that combines elegant simplicity and exceptional flexibility for desking, benching and conferencing applications. Designed…

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