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Designed for a growing city with a social-good focus, Calgary’s award-winning Central Library is a contemporary icon of cultural design—and a new blueprint for a time-honored typology.
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Designed for a growing city with a social-good focus, Calgary’s award-winning Central Library is a contemporary icon of cultural design—and a new blueprint for a time-honored typology.

Landscape designer and author of a lush new tome, Margie Grace cultivates exquisite gardens with singular flora and flourish.

Modern practitioners of ethically-driven design are reshaping the future with sustainable solutions that meet the moment.

Fusing Japanese and Scandinavian design, Norm Architects brings poetic, minimalist rigor to a collaborative space for cult-favorite Kinfolk magazine.

In this mostly minimalist moment, the audaciously pigmented space is a bold proposition, indeed. Here, some of the architecture and design studios creating built environments that color outside the lines.

Artists and architects are the curators of our physical world. Leaders in each field are creating bold interactions between space and surrounds, challenging the landscape at some of our most revered museums to change how, and what, we see.

At the forefront of this movement, Egg Collective and O&G Studio are innovating all categories, honestly and sustainably, with a reverence for art and nature.

For the last seven years, Cathy and Robin have transformed a modest 1973 Tahoe cabin into their personal retreat. Now, this humble space—prioritizing simple, beautiful living—is available for short term rent and interior inspiration.

French renaissance is underway in Provence, where, in the village of Vallabrègues, Benoit Rauzy and Anthony Watson happened upon an 18th-century hôtel Particulier

Coherence, as a word, does not elicit an animated response, nor should it particularly. It is a fixed and broad-shouldered term, reliant as a new day. Used in an architectural context, like when describing the work of Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando

The Box, a “bubble-like” innovative architectural intervention created to preserve and safeguard the historic Hill House, is an example of classic Glasgow style designed by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This solution protects the building from environmental elements to prolong its future for generations to enjoy.

The landscape with the plantings of hundreds of trees and a new Shearers’ Quarters building, Captain Kelly’s Cottage was first built at the mariner’s bidding (likely by ship hands) for his daughter Mary in the 1840s.