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We've selected what we feel are the key examples of Canadian Architecture. We aim to include buildings that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.
We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Canada. The focus is on contemporary Canadian buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.
We have 7 pages of Canadian Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.
Canadian Architecture : news + key projects (this page)
Canadian Architecture Designs : A-C
Canadian Architecture Developments : D-H
Canadian Buildings : I-O
Canadian Building Developments : P-R
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Canadian Architectural Designs : T-Z
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Architecture Designs - latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
Chambord Residence, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
Design: NatureHumaine

photo : Adrien Williams
Chambord Residence - 13 Jun 2013
The client wanted to utilize the second storey of her 1920s duplex by converting her former rental unit into 3 bedrooms and an office space. While the grey-stone front facade only required minor restorations, the back of the house was transformed completely. An emphasis on transparency creates constant visual and physical connections with the backyard.
Fifth Pavilion Competition, Quebec
Design: Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

render : Saucier+Perrotte
Fifth Pavilion Competition Montreal - 4 Jun 2013
Just as layers of history accumulate through time to offer varying perspectives on culture and environment, Saucier + Perrotte’s design for the Fifth Pavilion of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is composed of a series of mineral strata that form a home for the Hornstein collection of art. Floating gently above street level, each marble stratum is superimposed to produce a sculpted volume containing the collection and defining a space dedicated to the next generation of Montreal art lovers.
Montreal Luxury Hotel, Quebec
Design: Lemay

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Montreal Luxury Hotel - 28 May 2013
A new luxury hotel building on the Mount Stephen Club site located on 1440 Drummond Street in Montreal. Tidan Group owner of this impressive heritage building has started the construction of an 80-room hotel at the heart of downtown. The 12-storey building will contain luxurious accommodation, banquet rooms for 500 guests, flexible meeting rooms, a spa and a fitness center.
La Couleuvre, Montreal, Quebec
Design: NatureHumaine

photo : Adrien Williams
Montreal Flat Extension - 27 May 2013
Nicknamed “la couleuvre” (the garden snake). The parents’ quarters are located in the ground floor brick volume, while the kid’s bedrooms are pushed up into the twisting volume upstairs. A bright orange handrail leads you up into the kids’ zone. An open concept bathroom that facilitates family bath time also acts as the circulation to the 3 bedrooms with built in bunk beds and furniture in a similar playful language.
Royal BC Museum Master Plan, Victoria, British Columbia, south west Canada
Design: John McAslan + Partners with Merrick Architecture

photo from Royal BC Museum
Royal BC Museum Masterplan - 20 Mar 2013
The Royal BC Museum has appointed the international award‐winning lead architect John McAslan + Partners (London, UK), with local support from Merrick Architecture (Victoria, BC), to create a master plan which will lay the foundation for the renewal of British Columbia’s museum and archives. The master plan is expected to set the framework for a realistic, functional and affordable future development given today’s economic climate.
Cahier d’Exercices Montréal, Québec, Canada
Design: Saucier + Perrotte

photo : Marc Cramer
Cahier d’Exercices Montréal - 11 Jan 2013
Cahier d’Exercices is located at the entrance level of the historic Ross warehouse-store. The stone façade, its cast iron columns, and an expansive brick wall (punctuated with pieces of wood and metal) that runs the length of the store recall the 19th Century building’s industrial past as a retailer of large tissues, leathers and furs.
Prince Arthur’s Landing, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, Ontario
Design: Brook McIlroy

photo : David Whittaker
Prince Arthur’s Landing - 5 Dec 2012
The Prince Arthur’s Landing project has transformed the City of Thunder Bay’s waterfront into a mixed-use village and highly animated waterfront park that reconnects the downtown to the shores of Lake Superior.
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences / CDRD, Vancouver
Saucier + Perrotte / HCMA

photo : Marc Cramer
UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences - 19 Oct 2012
The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Centre for Drug Research and Development is sited on the corner of Wesbrook Mall and Agronomy Road, in the Heart of UBC’s campus. The site consists of a 20 240 square metre parcel of land that is located at an important university entry point. With this in mind the building has been designed to act as a gateway to the southeast edge of the campus, engaging the community with a ground floor that will be open, transparent, inviting, and one that will showcase the public function.
Bloc_10, Winnpieg
Design: 5468796 Architecture Inc

photo : James Brittain Photography
Winnipeg Residential Building
Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects

photo from Diamond Schmitt Architects
Ryerson Image Centre Canada - 27 Sep 2012
An international centre for photographic arts designed to house and exhibit one of the world’s most prestigious collections opens in downtown Toronto. This new Canadian building completes the transformation by Diamond Schmitt Architects of Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts, renovated to accommodate gallery space, curatorial and graduate study centres, state-of-the-art storage vaults and student galleries. The new centre is designed to museum standards of the Canadian Conservation Institute.
Beach and Howe Tower, Vancouver, BC
BIG

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Beach and Howe Tower Vancouver - 12 Apr 2012
The 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe mixed-use tower by BIG + Westbank + Dialog + Cobalt + PFS + Buro Happold + Glotman Simpson and local architect James Cheng marks the entry point to downtown Vancouver, forming a welcoming gateway to the city, while adding another unique structure to the Vancouver skyline.
Mies van der Rohe Gas Station, Nun’s Island, Montréal, Quebec
Les architectes FABG

photograph : Steve Montpetit
Mies van der Rohe Gas Station - 21 Feb 2012
Nun’s Island is part of the Hochelaga archipelago located immediately southwest of Montreal. It’s urbanization followed the opening of the Champlain bridge in 1962 under an ambitious master plan carried out by Metropolitan Structures, a real estate giant who had built numerous projects in Chicago with the collaboration of Mies van der Rohe.
Canadian Architecture Prize, Toronto : AZ Awards - Winners News
Canadian Architecture
Major Canadian Buildings + Projects, alphabetical:
Absolute Tower, southeast Canada
MAD

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Absolute Tower Canada, Mississauga
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Art Gallery of Alberta, west Canada
Randall Stout Architects

photo : Robert Lemermeyer
Art Gallery of Alberta Building
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Calgary National Music Centre Building
Allied Works Architecture

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Calgary National Music Centre Building
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Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, Montreal
Provencher Roy + Associés architects

photo © Tom Arban
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion
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Fogo Island Artist Studios, Newfoundland
Saunders Architecture

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Fogo Island Studios
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Habitat 67, Montreal, Quebec
Moshe Safdie, Architect

photo © Timothy Hursley
Habitat 67 Buildings
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Jameson House
Foster + Partners

photograph : Nigel Young, Foster + Partners
Vancouver Building
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Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec
Office for Metropolitan Architecture

picture from Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Quebec Museum Competition
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Renaissance ROM Extension, Toronto
Studio Libeskind

picture Courtesy Studio Daniel Libeskind
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Vancouver Convention Centre West
LMN Architects + DA/MCM

picture : VCCEP
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Canadian Architects
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Architectural Designs in Canada
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Montreal Architecture - key buildings + designs
Toronto buildings - key buildings + designs
Canadian Centre for Architecture Exhibition
CN Tower - Toronto Skyscraper, tallest Canadian building
Canadian university building - McGill University Campus, Montreal
OAA Awards : Ontario Association of Architects Awards
Canadian architecture studio : Diamond Schmitt Architects
Quebec Museum Architecture Competition
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