As a professional interior designer with Birmingham-based Maddalena Design, Sally Matak spends her days in a swirl of color, pattern and textures. So, when she heads home, it’s to a purposely serene and simple space where she can relax and refuel.
The 30-something Matak, who grew up in a “teeny, tiny town in Ontario two hours [...]
Ontario construction workers in various trades walked off the job on Monday.
The Labourers’ International Union of North America, with represents 25,000 construction workers in Ontario, has warned last week that it would take job action if it did not get a monetary offer from a consortium representing construction firms across the province.
The union accused the [...]
Markham, ON – Toronto’s Quadrangle Architects Ltd. have begun work on designs for the first condominium project in Markham, Ontario’s new downtown development. The Verdale Condominiums will consist of 450,000 square feet in three buildings. Two of the buildings will be 10-storeys in height, the other 14-storeys tall. The condominium is part of a larger [...]
New Tecumseh, ON – The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has allocated almost $5 million toward the planned $32 million CDN expansion of the New Tecumseh water and wastewater treatment plant. The facility was decommissioned in 1998 and received a Ministry of the Environment remediation order in 2000. The plant is now [...]
Sarnia – OptiSolar Farms Canada Inc. has announced plans to build the largest solar power station in North America on the southeast corner of Modeland Road and Confederation Street in Sarnia. The station, or “farm,†will include thousands of ground-mounted photovoltaic cells that will create enough electricity to power from 6,000 to 15,000 homes, depending [...]
Barrie, ON – This central Ontario city’s waterfront may soon top the list of Toronto-area residential hot-spots with the construction of the Nautica condominiums on Kempenfelt Bay. Builders INVAR Corporation and the Ross Group will start construction on the south tower of the nearly $100 million CDN project this summer. Barrie-based architect Ian S. Malcolm [...]
Doman Developments plans to complete a $50 million CDN Corporate Campus on Blue Heron Drive in this southwestern Ontario city. Doman plans to construct each light industrial or office building as tenants are confirmed. The development is expected to cost up to $50 million to construct. Doman is currently working on another commercial development on [...]
MIPIM isn’t just about big property deals and even bigger parties.
Daniel Libeskind, the internationally-renowned architect responsible for Manchester’s Imperial War Museum of the North will open the MIPIM 2007 conference programme with a keynote address devoted to the trends in world architecture.
Acknowledged as one of the most influential architects of his generation, award-winning Libeskind was [...]
Business continues to boom for Drummond Designs, as the company, which specializes in the development of residential home plans and architectural-related services, posted record sales for a ninth straight year in 2006.
The company announced today it sold more than 6,500 plans throughout North America between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Drummond Designs’ sales [...]
This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada is working to bring the profession to life for high school students across Canada with a unique program that brings the field trip to the classroom.
The program – Art in Architecture – promotes architecture as a career choice and aims to increase the awareness of architecture and its impact [...]
Calgary born architect L. Frederick Valentine spent his life defining the cityscape of modern Calgary, and now the city will seek to define him through his body of work currently on display at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts. The downtown gallery is showcasing 40 years of the University of Toronto/Harvard graduate’s designs, ranging [...]