The design for the new Central Library in Halifax, Canada was recently revealed at the fifth public consultation meeting. At this last public consultation meeting in the design phase of the Halifax Central Library, the architects identified the trends from all four of the prior public meetings and showed how…

Five winners have been announced in the 2010/11 edition of the River Trail at the Forks warming huts competition. Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Exposition on Ice was first launched last year to allow users of the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail near Winnipeg, Canada to…

The International Garden Festival, Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens, Quebec, Canada recently announced the names of the designers selected by the jury for the 2011 edition of the Festival. A total of 194 proposals for conceptual gardens were submitted by over 500 architects, landscape architects, designers and artists…

Francis Bitonti of FADstudio and Andrew Zientek of Terrain Studios have shared with us their entry to the 12th edition of the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival. The concept, combining landscape design with augmented reality technology, is titled My_SECRET[E].Garden.

The architectural competition Griffintown Interrupted seeks to revive Montreal’s oldest industrial district through a collective design experiment. Griffintown Interrupted is an open platform for discourse and debate which uses the competition model to create a space for agency, debate and transformation. Architects and designers from 10 countries have come…

We just published the winning projects of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards in categories Architecture and Interior Design, and here are now also the award winners in the categories Landscape Design and Urban Design. The nationwide Design Exchange (DX) competition is open to all types…

In the previous post, we just published the winners of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards in the Architecture category. In this article, we present the winners in the category Interior Design Commercial / Temporary. The nationwide competition, organized by Design Exchange (DX), is open to all…

The Design Exchange (DX) recently announced the 2010 winners of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards. This nationwide competition is open to all types of professional designers and business’ across Canada working in a range of design disciplines. The awards were presented at a gala dinner on the…

The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is on track to open in the summer of 2011, a building they are confident enough to announce as "the greenest building in North America".

The team of Atelier Big City, Fichten Soiferman et Associés and L’ŒUF has just been selected as winner of the architectural design competition for the future Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Cultural Centre in Montreal, Canada. The jury noted that the selected project stands out for…