Plans unveiled for Toronto park that will stretch under a highway
Toronto has revealed plans to construct a new park below an elevated highway, featuring outdoor performance spaces and a pedestrian and cycle trail. More
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Atelier Kastelic Buffey creates miniature book exchange that folds up into a glowing black box
This miniature wooden library for a Toronto suburb is designed to provide a public reading nook and book exchange, and folds into a box at night for security (+ slideshow). More
Blackened cedar planks cover the facade of COS Toronto store
Fashion brand COS has opened its first Canadian store, concealing a minimal-looking interior behind a blackened cedar facade (+ slideshow). More
BIG's twisted Vancouver tower named Future Project of the Year 2015
World Architecture Festival 2015: BIG's proposal for a 150-metre-high twisted skyscraper in Vancouver has won the title Future Project of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival. More
Snaking BMX race track installed in Toronto for Pan American Games
This undulating course was designed by Canadian firm Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects to host BMX races during the 2015 Pan American Games (+ slideshow). More
Magma Architecture completes spiky shooting range for Pan American Games
The jagged outline of a maple leaf informed the profile of this shooting range in Ontario, Canada, which was designed by Berlin firm Magma Architecture for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. More
Young Projects creates "inhabitable fireplace" for a lakefront site in western Canada
New York studio Young Projects has completed a warming hut for a housing development in Alberta that consists of a fireplace set within a slatted wooden box (+ slideshow). More
Faceted cedar cabin completed by Paul Bernier beside a lake in the Montreal woodland
The glazed living space of this cedar-clad cabin near Montreal projects over a woodland slope to optimise views of a nearby lake (+ slideshow). More
Scott & Scott updates Canadian mountain house interior using timber and marble
Canadian studio Scott & Scott has "brightened up" the interior of a mid-century property north of Vancouver, adding simple wooden surfaces, white-washed walls and a marble sink (+ slideshow). More
Anne Sophie Goneau exposes brickwork within Montreal apartment renovation
Materials uncovered during the renovation of this early-20th-century apartment in Montreal have been used to add texture to the space and create visual boundaries between each room. More
Herzog & de Meuron designs art museum made of stacked wooden boxes in Vancouver
The Vancouver Art Gallery has unveiled a conceptual design for its new building by Herzog & de Meuron, featuring a series of stacked volumes clad in wood (+ slideshow). More
Visitors must wear rain boots to explore Get Wet installation at Quebec garden festival
Three designers from the Canadian firm Groupe A / Annexe U have erected an orange pavilion within a shallow pool, requiring visitors to don waterproof shoes to explore the structure's interior (+ slideshow). More
Measured Architecture clads a Vancouver home in wood-textured concrete
Measured Architecture has completed a family residence in Vancouver that features an exterior made from blackened steel and wood-marked concrete (+ slideshow). More
Floating House by MOS Architects bobs on the surface of Lake Huron
A structure of steel pontoons allows this wooden cabin by New York studio MOS Architects to float on the surface of Lake Huron (+ slideshow). More
Fontaine/Fortin/Labelle creates Pomo-inspired entrance to Quebec passageway
Pomo summer: design collective Fontaine/Fortin/Labelle has blocked both ends of a lane in Quebec's Quartier Création with a Postmodern-influenced installation of colourful walls and geometric doorways (+ slideshow). More
Canadian forest retreat by Christopher Simmonds stretches out towards lake views
The upper storey of this forest house near Ottawa projects out from the landscape, creating a cantilevered living room offering views through the trees towards a nearby lake (+ slideshow). More
YH2 reinterprets the Canadian log cabin for lakeside housing development in Quebec
Canadian studio YH2 has completed a series of cabin-inspired homes for a woodland development between the shores of Lac Supérieur and the Mont-Tremblant ski resort in Quebec (+ slideshow). More
Torafuku restaurant by Scott & Scott features utilitarian interior designed to get better with age
Canadian architecture studio Scott & Scott used materials that "wear-in with use" for the interior of this pan-Asian restaurant in Vancouver (+ slideshow). More
Susan Fitzgerald's live-work space in Halifax features a rooftop vegetable garden
Flower beds and vegetable gardens cover the rooftops of this mixed-use property in Halifax, Canada, designed by architect Susan Fitzgerald as a space for her to live and work in (+ slideshow). More
Maison Terrebonne is a split-level home for a single occupant in Montreal
Montreal studio La Shed Architecture has used the foundations of a demolished 1990s bungalow to create a new timber-clad home featuring split-level floors and an integrated car port (+ slideshow). More