The Green-Blais residence is located on a rolling field overlooking Beaver Valley on the Niagara Escarpment, one of Canada’s most significant landforms and a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.
The Galley House emerged out of the context of studying patterns of the evolving typological landscape in Toronto, and the desire over the past century to maintain natural light within spaces affected by an urban block-type progressively becoming more dense and refined.
Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect Total Lighting Solutions lights the way for Vancouver's new transit system Soft, tranquil, diffuse — not words you would expect to describe the light in a subway. Vancouver’s new Canada Line, an extension of the city’s rapid-rail transit, opened in August 2009, ahead of schedule for the 2010 Olympics, and is already carrying more than 100,000 passengers a day — well above anticipated ridership. Worth about 10
Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Project Specs Canada Line British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect << Return to article the People Owner: Public Private Partnership Project. Funded by the Government of Canada, Province of British Columbia, Vancouver Airport Authority, the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (Translink – formerly named Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority) and City of Vancouver. Participating Agency: City of Richmond “Design, Build, partially Finance, Operate and Maintain” project. – The Concessionaire for the Project is
As the key location for skiing events at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Whistler, British Columbia, will no doubt be irrevocably imprinted on people’s minds this winter.
Three firms, Daoust Lestage, Williams Asselin Ackaoui, and Option Am'nagement, weave together multiple narratives to create Quebec's Promenade Samuel-de Champlain.
Travelers visiting Quebec City this summer who haven’t been there for some time, and who approach by car along the Saint Lawrence from the West, will find a stretch of the river’s waterfront completely transformed.
Project Specs Promenade Samuel-de Champlain Quebec, Canada Daoust Lestage, Williams Asselin Ackaoui, and Option Aménagement << Return to article the People Architect Le consortium DAOUST LESTAGE inc. – WILLIAMS ASSELIN ACKAOUI – OPTION AMÉNAGEMENT Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit Réal Lestage, urban planner – Project director Renée Daoust, architect, urban planner, partner Caroline Beaulieu, architect Lucie Bibeau, landscape architect Martin Adam, b. arch. Maria Benech, architect André Nadeau, landscape architect Simon Magnan, landscape architect Rachel Philippe-Auguste, architect Catherine St-Marseille, m.arch. Hubert Pelletier, industrial designer, m.arch. Nelson Couture, architect Jacques Michaud, senior technician Engineer(s): GENIVAR and SNC-Lavalin
Quebec City, famous for its cobblestone streets and 17th- and 18th-century architecture, is one of the few places in North America that might be mistaken for Old World Europe.