Canada

Local architecture studio Modern Office of Design + Architecture has wrapped a multifamily housing development in wood siding and topped it with ramped roof gardens in Calgary, Alberta. Known as GROW, the project includes 20 residential units and a 0.6-acre (0.24 hectares) urban farm in a “seamless milieu that blurs interior and exterior, as well

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Large windows create the feeling of sitting in a tree canopy at La Cime, a timber-clad holiday cabin that Canadian studio Naturehumaine has created in woodland in Lanaudière, Québec. La Cime, or The Top, is described by Naturehumaine as a one-bedroom “micro chalet”, with its sloping roof and wooden-plank cladding taking cues from traditional wooden

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Canadian studio Appareil Architecture has created a wooden, light-filled mountain house with a single-pitch roof in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Known as Résidence des Rapides, the three-bedroom house is partially embedded in a sloped four-acre site on the banks of the Diable River in the Laurentian Mountains. Montreal-based Appareil Architecture completed the cedar-clad house in 2023, informed

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Architecture studio Akb Architects has created a cluster of silvered cedar buildings on a remote archipelago in Ontario, Canada, as a summer home for a kite surfer. The freshwater landscape of Pointe Au Baril, three hours north of Toronto, comprises strings of rocky islands along the coast of Georgian Bay. Whistling Wind Island is one

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Canadian studio Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has wrapped a lakeside cabin in cedar and topped it with a split gable roof that reinterprets a traditional A-frame cabin in Ontario. Known as Bunkie on the Hill, the 1,000-square foot (93-square metre) cabin is tucked into the treeline overlooking a lake in Muskoka, Ontario. Dubbeldam Architecture +

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On a Newfoundland peninsula only accessible by boat or on foot, Toronto studio Reflect Architecture has transformed a pair of century-old saltbox houses into a flexible vacation home. Burdens Point Residence is formed of two renovated vernacular properties: Burden House, which was built in 1914, and Dunn House, which was built in 1912. A small

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