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Future Simple Studio creates family apartment within historic Montreal building

May 9, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

Bedrooms are enclosed within a pair of wood and glass boxes in this renovated apartment in Montreal designed by Canadian architecture office Future Simple Studio. The unit is located in a 100-year-old heritage building near the city’s Old Port district. Designed by Montreal-based Future Simple Studio, the project is named after the street upon which

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Future Simple Studio creates family apartment within historic Montreal building

May 9, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

Bedrooms are enclosed within a pair of wood and glass boxes in this renovated apartment in Montreal designed by Canadian architecture office Future Simple Studio. The unit is located in a 100-year-old heritage building near the city’s Old Port district. Designed by Montreal-based Future Simple Studio, the project is named after the street upon which

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Kanva revamps former Olympic venue the Montreal Biodome

April 30, 2021 India Block 0

Architecture studio Kanva has redesigned the Montreal Biodome, a science museum in Canada, to reveal its original concrete arches and create new homes for its animal occupants. The museum, which was originally an Olympic sports venue, contains four miniature ecosystems filled with plants and animals that visitors can walk through and explore. Designed by French

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Park Ex House in Montreal has voids that flood its basement with light

April 28, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Park Ex House by Nicholas Francoeur and Joel Fontaine Lortie

Architecture graduates Nicholas Francoeur and Joel Fontaine Lortie have renovated a steel-clad house in Montreal to include two cut-outs in its floors that fill the basement with sunlight. Called Park Ex House, the dwelling is positioned on a corner in the Park Extension neighbourhood of Montreal, known by locals as Park Ex. Current architecture interns

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ACDF Architecture turns historic Montreal railway station into offices

March 7, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

A white corridor in Lightspeed's offices

Canadian studio ACDF Architecture has transformed the arches of Montreal’s Gare Viger into contemporary offices for software company Lightspeed. The local studio undertook the project as the third stage of a five-phase plan to turn the grand hotel and railway building, which was built in 1989, into offices. ACDF Architecture aimed to keep the character

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Jean Verville Architecte inserts gridded steel lightwell into Montreal home

March 1, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Shadows from steel structure in Montreal kitchen

Canadian studio Jean Verville Architecte has created a theatrical interior inside a Montreal house by adding a large steel structure capped by a skylight that casts dramatic shadows. For the project, called MSO; Play/Pause, the studio completely reorganised the interior of the building and built a 12-metre-high steel lightwell in the centre of the three-storey

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Ménard Dworkind creates retro coffee bar in downtown Montreal

January 14, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Canadian studio Ménard Dworkind has unveiled a retro-themed coffee bar featuring Rubik’s Cube mirrors and a floor tiled to look like checkerboard shoes. Situated in downtown Montreal, Caffettiera Caffé Bar features a monolithic black terrazzo bar that welcomes people into the open space. Combining refreshments and a retail display, this main bar emphasises Caffettiera Caffé

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Jean Verville Architecte creates “luminous” white triplex in Montreal

January 5, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

NMBDH triplex by Jean Verville in Montreal

Canadian architect Jean Verville Architecte has completed NMBHD, a white triplex in Montreal adorned with gold windows that incorporates apartments as well as a ceramic workshop. NMBHD was built on the site of an old garage, which was torn down and replaced with the four-storey building designed by Jean Verville Architecte. The studio clad the

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Warm beige hues update Résidence Esplanade in Montreal

November 21, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Guest bedroom inside Résidence Esplanade in Montreal

Design pair Michael Godmer and Catherine Lavallée created a sequence of meditative, beige-tone spaces in the partial renovation of this home in Montreal. Résidence Esplanade is situated in Mile End, a trendy area of Montreal host to various eateries, coffee bars and vintage stores. The property was originally built as two separate apartments, but five

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Black dominates moody ELMNT spinning studio in Montreal

November 15, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Cycling shoes are tucked into all-black shelving in this boutique spinning studio in Montreal, Canada, designed by locally based Ivy Studio. Ivy Studio chose the material palette for the indoor cycling facility to reflect the monochrome branding of ELMNT, a boutique gym providing spaces for yoga, spin, barre and high intensity interval training (HIIT). Black

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