#The Building: Labrador’s striking new cultural centre

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“The Building: Labrador’s striking new cultural centre” For the Nain project, Newfoundland-born architect Todd Saunders took inspiration from Inuit sod house shelters on nearby Rose Island The town of Nain, on the rugged, mountainous Labrador coast, gives new meaning to the word “remote”: it’s inaccessible by road and overlooks the wild Labrador Sea, which freezes…

#How Winnipeg’s Forest Pavilion was built with climate change in mind

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“How Winnipeg’s Forest Pavilion was built with climate change in mind” As flooding becomes more frequent across the Prairies, architects are designing newer structures with climate change in mind Crescent Drive Park in Winnipeg has always been a destination for trail-walking, skating and canoeing. But until recently, the park’s only standing structure was a 900-square-foot…

#Why Moshe Safdie wants Canada to rebuild its sense of adventure

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“Why Moshe Safdie wants Canada to rebuild its sense of adventure” Moshe Safdie is one of the world’s most iconic and inventive living architects, with projects that include Montreal’s famed Habitat 67 housing complex and the prismatic Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. Safdie has a luminous legacy in the form of his buildings…