The CORE, by GH+A in collaboration with MMC International Architects, won a Maple Leaf Gold Award.

Here’s to retail design expert GH+A

GH+A – the retail design expert with offices located in Montreal, Quebec and Detroit – has won four awards at the ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Awards. The ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Awards program is designed to honour the industry’s brightest and best. The program brings information and insight to the entire industry on what it…

October 24, 2012

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InHaus Development’s double Platinum

There are only seven LEED Platinum rated energy efficient homes in Western Canada. InHaus Development Ltd. is proud to announce it has just been awarded Platinum Certification by the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) for its two brand-new, cutting-edge sustainable homes in White Rock, B.C. European efficiency meets West Coast contemporary design. These two sexy, single family…

October 2, 2012

Interpret, a new universal desking system from Teknion, was honoured with a Silver at IIDEX Canada.

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Four awards for Teknion

Teknion Corporation today announced that its Interpret universal desking system, Sidewise compact casegoods, Projek task seating and LOGIQ energy-management system all received Innovation Awards at IIDEX Canada, the country’s largest National Design + Architecture Expo and Conference held in Toronto. Interpret was honored with a Silver while Sidewise, Projek and LOGIQ earned Bronze awards. “It…

September 24, 2012

The striking multi-level Atrium at Rotman School features a serpentine staircase accented with hot pink that brightens the monochrome interior. Credit: Tom Arbun Photography Inc.

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KPMB brings the biz’

The Rotman Expansion, the winning scheme in an invited design competition designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB), was officially opened last week. The Rotman School is part of the University of Toronto and according to a recent Financial Times survey of MBA programs is ranked one the top 10 business schools in the…

September 13, 2012

The Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence features a lively interplay of landscape elements - different ecosystems expressed along a vegetative "ribbon" of park, garden spaces, an undulating green roof and the bio-filter wall.

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Diamond Schmitt Architects Architects & Edward J. Cuhaci And Associates Architects Inc., together on the green

The Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence (ACCE) at Algonquin College in Ottawa has won the Academic Leadership Award for green building innovation. The award was presented at the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) National Conference in Toronto. The landmark building opened in 2011 and consolidates under one sizable green roof the College’s…

June 14, 2012

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Breaking news: Ryerson University breaks ground

Members of Ryerson’s community, government officials and community supporters marked a new era for the university at a ceremony on Yonge Street today as they broke ground for Ryerson’s new Student Learning Centre (SLC). With a dazzling glass “skin” enveloping its exterior, the eight-storey building will make its mark on one of Canada’s most famous…

May 30, 2012

Teknion's 6,500-square-foot Washington showroom was created by Vanderbyl Design to maximize the potential of the space, light and materials used.

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Teknion finds Gold in Washington

Teknion Corporation's new Washington, D.C., showroom has been awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Commercial Interiors 2.0 Gold by the United States Green Building Council. "We continue to look at all aspects of sustainable development within our organization," says Tracy Backus, LEED AP ID + C and Teknion's director of sustainable…

February 3, 2012

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HDR’S new Humber River hospital

HDR, as a member of the Plenary Health Care Partnerships team, was selected to design Humber River's new 1.7-million-square-foot hospital in Toronto. The hospital will be the largest acute care hospital in the greater Toronto area and the first in North America to automate all of its operational processes. The project is the result of a partnership between…

January 4, 2012

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2 Silvers for Ruscio Studio

The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) in keeping with its long standing tradition of recognizing and honoring the shopping centre industry's most cutting-edge, innovative solutions, and creative responses to market trends, as well as outstanding examples of retail store design has announced its winners for the 2011 Canadian Shopping Centre Global Awards program. As…

November 2, 2011

AIMCo Offices, Edmonton. Photo by Tom Arban.

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Hooray for DIALOG

Alberta Interior Design Excellence was celebrated recently, with DIALOG receiving multiple honours. AIMCo, the new Edmonton offices for the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, was presented with Gold recognition, while Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital Robbins Pavilion and Calgary's Nexen Conference Centre were recognized with Silver standing all as part of the bi-annual Interior Designers of Alberta…

October 21, 2011