A mezzanine-desk is built in a loft bordering the Lachine Canal in Montreal.
In this narrow loft bordering the Lachine Canal, sitting the mezzanine above the corridor created a surprising viewpoint onto the living room. The working area is supported by a steel blade structure braced with recovered oak doors. A laser-cut Russian plywood balustrade frames the mezzanine, suggestive of an opera hall loggia.
The kitchen of a single-family home in Montreal’s Mile-End is getting a fresh new look.
The linear orientation of the countertops extends the kitchen to the threshold of the dining room. Housing the sink and stove, the long quartz anthracite countertop visually wraps the kitchen cabinets to the fridge. The massive oak counter cantilevered on a fine stainless steel structure creates a large working area with a view of the dining room. The overhead bar completes this project.
A triplex in Montreal’s Verdun neighborhood becomes a single-family home.
This old triplex located on Fifth Avenue in Verdun lacked light and space. By adding a staircase linking two floors and changing its orientation, the architects opened up the space and let in light, lightening the heart of the new home. A large modular bookcase surrounds the pale birch staircase which gives access to the renovated bedrooms and bathrooms.
Couple builds a hemp dream house with cedar shingles in Lanaudière.
Seated in a clearing of the Laurentian Mountains, the house has an unobstructed view of the lake, permitting the use of passive solar heating. A showcase of high-end technologies (radiant heating and air exchange system, natural and high-performance materials such as balloon frame, cedar siding roof and hempcrete), this project is bursting with ecological qualities.
A new oak kitchen transforms a typical Plateau Mont-Royal housing in Montreal.
The architects brought together the pantry, stove, and fridge into a large oak service wall, creating enough space to fit a long solid oak counter. Breaking through a vertical slab, the counter invites the kitchen’s space to flow into the dining room.
The first hemp residence in Canada is being built in the Eastern Townships.
First of its kind in North America, this house is almost entirely built of hemp. Located in the Eastern Townships, it extends over more than 2,000 square feet. The main stair servicing the three bedrooms is built around a central masonry heater, finished with rammed earth. To reduce the environmental impact of the project, the architects implemented the following strategies: continuous hemp insulation, shallow foundations, radiant slab, passive solar heating, composting toilet and rainwater harvesting.
A suspended wooden bed thrills a loft near the Lachine Canal in Montreal.
Levitation. The bed’s fir plywood slab follows the sinuous curves of its tubular steel structure, floating above the cradle. Illuminated by an opalescent storage wall and by neon light bouncing off bricks, the space thus created embodies lightness.
An Italian colonial style bungalow of the eighties in Rosemère is stripped and revamped.
The new layout suggested by the architects highlights the bungalow’s two main areas, the circulation area and the working area. A linear slate tiling marks the central traffic area, connecting the living room and the kitchen/dining room. A large storage module acts as a pivot between the two spaces. The basement is reconfigured to include working spaces and a guest room.
An art deco cottage in Ahuntsic Montreal finds a new addition in the backyard.
With its central island, the new kitchen bridges the gap between the existing space and the addition. Locating the services in the northern wall permitted the southern façade to be entirely glazed, yielding a view onto the garden and the patio. The exterior volume stands out as a metal box enclosed by a brick light shelf.
A duplex in Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is expanding on the ground floor.
The addition was designed as a rough plaster prism that is emptied out in strategic places so as to reveal the warm interior wood finish. The floor of the new space is somewhat lower than the existing main floor, reinforcing its connection with the garden. A double lateral access allows circulation between the existing space and the new summer living room. Its main façade opens on a fabulous view of the garden.