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Updates

23.09.24
platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99% released at Mextropoli Architecture and City Festival.  

23.07.10
Veil House is shortlisted for Completed Buildings - Villa Category at the World Architecture Festival 2023.

23.06.23
9th Avenue Parkade & Innovation Centre receives Award of Merit for Urban Design Infrastructure at the AZ Awards 2023 in Toronto.

23.05.31
Boom Town @ The Bentway opens in Toronto: Boom Town @ The Bentway is a winning competition proposal done in collaboration with Office In Search Of for an urban installation located under the Gardiner Expressway at York Street in Toronto, Ontario. The project is part of Waterfront ReConnect, a program that re-imagines the Gardiner at street-level, co-presented by The Bentway, the Waterfront BIA, the Toronto Downtown West BIA, and the City of Toronto.

23.04.20 
Colin presents the keynote lecture on platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99% at FOCUS ON / Architecture (CDm2 Lightworks, Vancouver, BC).

23.04.12 
9th Avenue Parkade & Innovation Centre is an AZ Awards Finalist. 

22.12.19
Beacon wins the 2022 World Architecture Festival Health category for completed buildings.

22.11.16
9th Ave Parkade wins a GOLD 2022 WAN Award - Transport category for completed buildings.
IW09 wins a GOLD 2022 WAN Award - Mixed Use category for future projects.

22.08.23
Three projects are 2022 World Architecture Festival [WAF] finalists.
James Avenue Pumping Station [Completed Buildings - New to Old]
Beacon [Completed Buildings - New]
Parkade [Completed Buildings - Transport]

22.06.01
Trevor Boddy's piece for Canadian Architect, "Proofing the Future: 9th Avenue Parkade + Innovation Centre, Calgary AB" included in the national publication's June Issue. 

22.04.25
Storefront MB hosts FRONTLINES, one of a series of events programmed as part of the Winnipeg Design Festival. The April 25th conversation will focus on adaptive reuse, downtown recovery and The Bay. 546's Colin Neufeld joins Uzoma Azagwara and Murray Peterson in conversation, moderated by former mayor Glen Murray. The event takes place at 7pm at The Curry Building, 245 Portage Ave, Winnipeg.

22.03.09
Johanna Hurme gives a talk alongside Shim-Sutcliffe's Brigitte Shim for Architects, not Architecture's first ever Canadian Edition. Take in the conversation by registering at https://www.architectsnotarchitecture.com/event/vwt-canada/. 14:00 EST / 20:00 CET on Wednesday March 9, 2022. 

22.03.03
The Bentway Toronto announces the Waterfront ReConnect project winners: 5468796 Architecture [Winnipeg] and Office In Search Of [Toronto] will be installing BOOM TOWN at the York Street intersection under the Gardiner Expressway. Congratulations to Simcoe site winners, 02 Planning + Design, Mulvey + Banani Lighting and Entuitive for PIXEL STORY. 

22.01.20
5468796 Architecture launches WIND{TER} SOCKS, a 2022 Windsock project with The Forks in Winnipeg, Canada. A complement to the annual International Warming Huts Competition on Ice, Windsocks at The Forks is aimed at whimsy and public engagement along the Assiniboine River Trail each winter. 

WIND{TER} SOCKS is one part "sock-drop" and one part online donation drive. The initiative will distribute new pairs of socks dropped on location at the Nestaweya River Trail (presented by The Winnipeg Foundation) at The Forks harbour and; will collect cash donations online for the purchase of additional pairs.

Socks will be donated to community members in need.

Please donate online now! More details at www.windtersocks.ca.

22.01.10
Public Presentations of the Bentway Waterfront ReConnect Design Competition finalists are held virtually. The presentations can be viewed here.

22.01.05
The Waterfront ReConnect Design Competition proposals are publicly released. (6) finalist proposals can be read here.

21.10.22
5468796 Architecture presents its mixed-use residential project, 90 Alexander, to the prestigious World Architecture Festival panel of judges. The 2021 Festival will take place on an interactive virtual platform and live streamed Dec 1-3.

21.10.20
5468796 and Manoeuvre Architecture publicly present their design for Bibliothèque et Espace Culturel Interarrondissement Ahuntsic-Cartierville et Montréal-Nord.

21.10.15
The Bentway announces the Waterfront Reconnect Design Competition finalists. 5468796 with Office In Search Of join forces for a new installation proposal under Toronto's Gardiner Expressway at York. More details on the shortlisted competitors here.

21.10.15
5468796 Architecture teams up with OfficeISO (Toronto) to design a public realm project below the Gardiner Expressway. The team is 1 of 6 finalists shortlisted for the Waterfront ReConnect Design Competition, and will be designing for the York Street intersection. The design competition is facilitated by The Bentway, Waterfront BIA, Toronto Downtown West BIA, and the City of Toronto.

21.07.22
MADAME ARCHITECT interviews Johanna Hurme on the Economics of Architecture and Advocating for Value. 

21.07.05
The World Architecture Festival announces the finalists for the 2021 Award. The firm's latest Winnipeg project, 90 Alexander, is included in the top 16 contenders worldwide for Residential Future Project. An international jury will evaluate finalists' presentations virtually in October, with the Festival being presented virtually December 1-3, 2021.

21.07.02
Architectural Record publishes a piece on Beacon [Calgary] in their July issue.

21.06.17
Design Montreal announces the shortlisted teams for a new library design and cultural space for Ahuntsic-Cartierville and Montréal-Nord. 546 partners with Manoeuvre Architecture on the competition. Public team presentations will take place October 2021.

21.06.01
90 Alexander and the 9th Avenue Parkade now on the website.

21.04.16
The Globe and Mail real estate section features multi-family residential project 62M.

" 'I think we often get accused of trying to be iconic, trying to do something shocking. This project was anything but. It was hyper logical in the sense that one step of discovery led to another. The architecture was less driven by aesthetics than thoughtful responses to site constraints and end goal market realities.' "—Johanna Hurme, interviewed by Karen Burshtein

21.03.31
Virtual Learning for Life | Alumni Scholars Series | UofM
"In Conversation with the partners of 5468796 architecture" 1pm CDT

21.02.26
62M is featured in WALLPAPER*.

21.01.20
The Architectural League New York will be hosting 5468796 Architecture for First Fridays - Distance Edition on February 4, 5:00pm CST / 6:00pm EST. 

More information and Zoom registration accessed here. 

20.12.01 
Canadian Architect announces its 2020 Awards of Excellence recipients! On the list is 5468796 Architecture's 90 Alexander, the firm's most recent project in construction and its most recent Award of Merit by the organization.

90 Alexander is 1-part adaptive reuse and 1-part new build. The residential mixed use project plans for commercial on the ground floor and a series of public spaces throughout. Located on Waterfront Drive in Winnipeg, Canada, the new development is located a stone's throw to the east from the Historic Exchange District.

20.11.16
Sasa Radulovic to present at Alberta WoodSolutions Virtual Conference on Monday November 16th. See the full agenda for the conference here.

20.03.11
The Architectural Review announces the 2020 Winners of the AR / MIPIM Future Project Awards. IW09, to be built in Inglewood, Calgary, receives High Commendation in the commercial mixed-use category. 

20.03.09
Colin Neufeld conducts professional masterclass – Industrial Landscapes: Mass Timber — at the University of Calgary, School of Architecture, Planning + Landscape.

20.03.01
DOMUS Guide 2020 is published in March and includes 5468796 Architecture. The top 50 list follows the publication of Domus's first edition and identifies the world's most creative, interesting and promising emerging architecture practices. The five international experts making up the selection committee are Wowo Ding, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Lesley Lokko, Rahul Mehrotra and Sarah M. Whiting.

546's Get Off Your Butt and Ski team, "Pablo Batista Commemorative," brings in a 3rd place finish! The corporate challenge took place at the Windor Park Nordic Centre on Sunday March 1 as part of the CCSAM's charitable initiative to fund inner city youth ski programming.

20.02.29
Principal Colin Neufeld presents the James Ave Pumping Station project for best Refurbishment project consideration at ArchMarathon's 2020 awards in Miami, Florida.

20.02.28
Johanna Hurme presents as part of CAFÉ PRAIRIE, an Architecture forum working toward an architecture policy for Canada. Taking place at 12 schools across the country over the course of the 2019-20 year, the forums are programmed to facilitate a national conversation to discuss and debate the role of architectural education and research in shaping Canada's future.

19.12.19
Azure Magazine publishes The 10 Projects That Defined a Decade of Canadian Architecture. Find 62M alongside projects by RDHA, Snøhetta and Dialog, Saunders Studio, Hariri Pontarini Architects, Patkau Architects, GH3 and more... 

19.12.10
RNDSQR Block - an award-winning residential / commercial mixed use project in Calgary - now on the website!

19.12.05
Principal Colin Neufeld of 5468796 Architecture presents the James Avenue Pumping Station Apartments for Future Residential Project consideration at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam. Shortlisted amongst a tight group of contenders, the final award goes to Herzog & de Meuron.

19.12.02
The Canadian Architect Awards are announced - Awards of Merit to new commercial / residential development in Calgary, IW09 and to James Brittain's capture of the firm's project 62M Penthouse.

Congratulations as well to 546er Brandon Bergem, recipient of the 2019 Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence in recognition of thesis work completed at the University of Toronto.

The December awards issue of Canadian Architect is now available.

19.11.30
The Forks Railside Masterplan wins the Urban Design + Architecture Design Awards for Urban Planning [Concept].

19.11.29
546 Partner Johanna Hurme is named to the RAIC's Board of Directors, representing the SK/MB Region. The three year position commences 2020.

19.10.27
Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian Architect co-publish Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the present. Edited by Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey, the compendium "is a comprehensive review of major work in this country. It includes 15 original essays and 500 photographs and drawings." Included is 5468796's Governor General recipient, Bloc_10. 

"This anthology [...] amounts to a major achievement of collective scholarship. [...] By any standards, this is an encyclopedic tour de force."
–Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University

19.10.24
Calgary hosts the 2019 Mayor's Urban Design Awards. LIFE is recognized in the Housing Innovation category.

19.10.07
Two new projects are publicly announced: 90 Alexander and Waterfront + Galt. The two sites, which include rental units and the heritage rehabilitation of Great West Metal, will be developed by RNDSQR. Read the news piece in the Winnipeg Free Press today.

19.09.26
The Winnipeg Design Festival opens PROTO-! The festival theme positions Winnipeg as a proto-city: a city where new ideas are encouraged and embraced, as its core urbanism. 546 appears in the following exhibits:

#POCKET, Hudson's Bay window facing the WAG
#HOUSES MAKE, 751 Corydon
#MODEL A2Gallery, University of Manitoba
#CAST, Interview with Principal Sasa Radulovic, instagram stories

Download the full schedule here.

19.09.25
The RAIC announces the Jury for the 2020 Governor General's Medals in Architecture. Included on the list: Alison Brooks, Johanna Hurme, Renée Mailhot, David Theodore, Isay Weinfeld. 

19.09.21
Cambridge Scholars publishes Innovative Solutions for Creating Sustainable Cities, edited by Dr. Sylvie Albert and launched locally at McNally Robinson. Contributors include Johanna Hurme and Shannon Wiebe of 5468796 Architecture.

19.07.04
Winnipeg's pumphouse apartments, currently under construction, is announced as a finalist at the World Architecture Festival. The highly anticipated James Ave Pumping Station Apartments project is shortlisted in the Residential Future Projects category. The firm will present the project live to a panel of WAF judges this December in Amsterdam as part of the festival.

State of the Nation: Manitoba is published online by Canadian Architect. Elsa Lam writes on Winnipeg, design, and 546's Railside at The Forks masterplanning project.

19.06.12
546 is very proud to announce four new Architects in the office: Apollo Au, Pablo Batista, Jeff Kachkan, and Kelsey McMahon were officially sworn in at the annual meeting of the Manitoba Association of Architects today.

19.06.05
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada announces the winners of the Young Architect Award - Congratulations to 546 Associate, KEN BORTON!

19.04.16
The historic James Avenue Pumping Station officially welcomes Think.Shift to the building! The Winnipeg Free Press writes...

19.04.04
62M Condominiums is announced as a finalist in Azure Magazine's AZ Awards! The Multi-Unit Residential project is up for the People's Choice Awards - vote now!

19.04.08
Johanna Hurme lectures at the University of Utah College of Architecture. "Move Beyond" is the theme for the college's spring Architecture Lecture Series. 4pm, Salt Lake City, UofUCAP.

19.04.03
WE ARE HIRING! Looking for exceptional skills in rendering + 3D modelling [Sketchup/Vectorworks] and an August-start. More details on how to apply here.

19.03.18
Manager and Design Facilitator Melvin Kleinsasser of KlarTech joins Sasa Radulovic to talk ideas, design potential and fabrication at North Carolina State University, School of Architecture's Spring Lecture Series. The two have worked together on numerous architectural projects, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations to push value and innovation in built work.

19.02.25
Brent Bellamy's piece on 62M goes live online in AZURE! Read "A UFO-Shaped Condo Building Alights on Winnipeg's Skyline" now or pick up the Jan/Feb issue on newsstands today.

19.02.18
The Porter Building is awarded Heritage Winnipeg's Annual Preservation Award for 2019. 

19.01.29
5468796 Architecture Principal Colin Neufeld heads to Singapore to join a conversation on "High-Dense Typologies for Building Community." The joint panel is part of Future Urban Habitation Symposium 2019 and runs January 29-30. As part of the 2-day symposium, workshops with students from the Singapore University of Technology + Design and the National University of Singapore will be run by lecturers.

19.01.28
"Add via Edit" Morgenstern Visiting Chair Lecture, Chicago IIT. Johanna and Sasa present at 6pm, Crown Hall.

19.01.18
The 9th Avenue Parkade features in The Globe and Mail's Friday print of "Developers planning parkades with future flexibility." The downtown Calgary project is being designed in collaboration with Kasian Architecture.

18.12.18
62M selected as Best Multi-Unit Project for Azure Magazine's Top 10 Canadian Architecture Projects 2018. 

18.12.17
62M appears in Azure's Jan/Feb issue. Article by Brent Bellamy, photographs by James Brittain.

18.12.14
New projects added to the website: James Ave Pumping Station, Courtyard 33 and Beacon.

18.12.05
Canadian Architect announces the 2018 Canadian Architect Award winners. The James Avenue Pumping Station receives an Award of Merit. Detailed project features are included in the magazine's December issue.

18.11.08
Principal Colin Neufeld takes part in the BUILDEX Calgary conference, presenting alongside speakers Nima Javidi [Ja Architecture Studio], Ben Klumper [MoDA] and Vedran Skopac [Manasc Isaac] under Architecture Keynote session: Challenging Typologies. 

18.11.07
Canadian Architect publishes 62M on the cover of its November issue, with feature article "Add via Edit" looking back over 10 years of multi-family housing experience completed by the firm.

Principals Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic lecture at the School of Architecture, Academy of Art University in San Francisco as part of the school's Ethics + Leadership Fall Panel.

18.10.18
The McEwen School of Architecture's Laurentian Architecture Lecture Series presents 5468796 Architecture - 5:30pm, lecture hall amphitheatre.

18.10.15
The University of British Columbia's SALA presents 5468796 Architecture as part of their Friends + Alumni Lecture Series.

18.10.13
The firm's shortlisted project, 62M, is presented amongst top designers at the 2018 ArchMarathon Awards in Milan.

18.10.09
5468796 Architecture lectures in Little Rock, Arkansas for The Architecture + Design Network.

18.10.08
5468796 Architecture lectures at the Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design.

18.09.29
As part of The Winnipeg Design Festival + Nuit Blanche, 546 is pleased to support the [re]gard Fashion Show at the Forks' parkade rooftop. See you there!

18.09.21
5468796 Architecture lectures at the Interior Design Show's AZURE TALKS in Vancouver.

18.09.19
5468796 Architecture contributes to the Jan Gehl Luncheon "Livable Cities for the 21st Century" lecture, featuring esteemed architect + urban design consultant, Jan Gehl.

18.09.15
5468796 Architecture hosts a charette for city design issues with 100 University of Manitoba design students, professors, and professionals from Public City Architecture, the City of Winnipeg, Number10, Scatliff + Miller + Murray, Architecture49, Bridgman Collaborative, HTFC, Boreal Architecture Studio, Size Architecture, and 1x1 architecture.

18.09.13
5468796 Architecture's single family residential project, Parallelogram House, is presented with a 2018 Governor General Medal in Architecture. The Ceremony takes places at Government House and is presented by The Honourable Janice C. Filmon, the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.

18.09.12
The 2018 Govenor General's Medals in Architecture public presentations featuring all 12 architectural award recipients are held at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. It is the first time the ceremony is held in Winnipeg in the history of the prestigious RAIC award [presented jointly by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Association of Architects]. The Forks was also presented with the CSLA's Project Legacy Award for Landscape Architecture.

18.08
5468796 architecture project Bloc_10 appears in Wiley's newly published Housing as Intervention: Architecture as Social Equity.

18.07.30
Crossroads Garden Shed announced as Architizer A+ Award People's Choice winner for +Urban Transformation!

18.06.19
One Bucket at a Time Winnipeg wins Gold in the International Design Award's Exhibits, Pavilions + Exhibitions category.

18.05.11
5468796 Architecture is announced as 1 of 4 competition winners of the Housing Northwest Arkansas Professional Design Competition. The international competition was launched by the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. 

18.05.07
Canada's Royal Architectural Institute releases the 2018 Governor General's Medals in Architecture, announcing Parallelogram House as one of twelve recipients. 

The Globe and Mail publishes on the best new buildings in Canada, as awarded by the RAIC for the 2018 Governor General's Medals in Architecture.

Canadian Architect publishes the GG award winners in its May 2018 issue.

18.03.13
Maples Chiropractic Clinic wins Interior Showcase at Alberta Wood Works!' Prairie Wood Design Awards.

18.02.08
Johanna Hurme participates in the RAIC's 2018 Awards Jury alongside Peter Busby, Andrew Batay-Csorba , Renée Mailhot and Diogo Burnay.

18.01.22 
One Bucket at a Time Mexico nominated for ArchDaily's Building of the Year '18 in the Cultural Projects category.

18.01.18
Sasa Radulovic lectures at Dalhousie University's School of Architecture as part of Professional Practice Week 2018. Lecture details HERE.

17.12.01
Interior Design BoY Awards take place in NYC. One Bucket at a Time Mexico receives the award in the installation category.

17.11.14
Interior Design magazine announces the finalists for their Best of Year awards. Shortlisted in the Installation category is One Bucket at a Time Mexico, designed and presented with Factor Eficiencia and Studio NYL Engineers.

17.11.20
Johanna Hurme participates on the World Architecture Festival's Jury for Completed Buildings: Culture. The 10th edition of WAF took place November 15-17, 2017 in Berlin.

17.11.14
Crossroads Garden Shed receives Calgary's MUDA 2017 award in the Urban Fragments category;

Courtyard 33 receives an Honourable Mention in the Conceptual/Theoretical Urban Design Projects category.

17.10.27 
546 presents at Toronto's 2017 POP//CAN//CRIT. Guest Speaker Johanna Hurme joins the roundtable discussion with Toon Dreessen [Dreessen Cardinal Architects], Alex Bozikovic [The Globe and Mail], Susan Algie [The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation], Shelley True [TrueDotDesign] and moderator Matthew Blackett. Friday October 27, 15:45. 

Dwell Magazine features Parallelogram House on the cover of its Nov/Dec print issue, article by Karen Burshtein. The online version can be read in full here.

17.10.17
5468796 presents Potential In the Margins as part of Montreal's World Design Summit, running October 16-20.

17.09.13 
One Bucket at a Time Winnipeg opens with the Winnipeg Design Festival. Details on the installation and how to donate to the community initiative can be found at www.onebucketatatime.ca.

17.08.24
54Disc wins the Manitoba Organization of Disc Sports Thursday Night Ultimate Summer Co-Ed Division F Championship Game!

17.04.13
Parallelogram House is featured in the April issue of Canadian Architect. 

17.04.13
Four new projects have been added to the website:
0510 | One Bucket at a Time
0397 | Brewery at The Forks
0439 | Guertin Cottage
0260 | Square House

17.03.11
One Bucket at a Time by Factor Eficiencia and 5468796 Architecture opens at Mextropoli.

17.03.10
Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic are appointed to the Royal Architectectural Institute of Canada College of Fellows.

17.03.09
Johanna Hurme is featured in Issue 1439 of The Architectural Review.

17.03.02
Interview with Johanna Hurme is featured in The Architectural Reivew.

17.02.06
Johanna Hurme is shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. 

17.01.01
Crossroads Garden Shed is featured on the cover of Architect Magazine. 

16.11.30
Brewery at The Forks wins Canadian Architect Award of Merit.

16.11.17
Arthur Residence wins Future Projects | House Category at World Architecture Festival.

16.10.24
Tweener wins Edmonton Infill Competition Open Category.

16.10.04
Crossroads Garden Shed receives a Platinum American Architecture Prize.

16.06.07
youCUBE receives a 2016 Prairie Design Award of Merit.

16.05.30
Six new projects have been added to the website:
0416 | Chair Your Idea
0330 | The Tree House
0259 | Parallelogram House
0393 | Lake & East Tower
0372 | Crossroads Garden Shed
0401 | Zibi Windmill Tower

16.03.31
OZ Condominiums is a finalist for the MCHAP.emerge prize.

16.03.24
548 Stradbrook Condominiums is a Finalist in the Architizer A+ Awards for the Details: Architecture +Glass Category. Public voting is open until April 1st.

24.12.15
5468796 is announced as one of The Globe & Mail's 2015 Canadian Artists of the Year!

15.10.14
Bloc_10 and OMS Stage receive a Premier's Design Award of Excellence and youCUBE receives a Premier's Design Award of Merit.

15.10.08
Our shortlisted competition design for the Canadian Canoe Museum has been added to the website:
0409 | Canadian Canoe Museum

15.07.14
Do you have a creative urban idea for Winnipeg? Available to all Winnipeggers, CHAIR YOUR IDEA is a crowdsourced and crowdfunded open competition that seeks to generate 1000+ urban design ideas and $30,000+ to realize the winning idea. Get ready to submit when the competition launches on August 27th!

15.05.21
5468796 is shortlisted for the Canadian Canoe Museum design competition.

15.04.01
548 Stradbrook is featured in the March issue of The Plan.

15.02.26
Tree House, our new project in Toronto with Symmetry Developments and Fortress Real Developments, is featured in The Globe and Mail.

15.01.22
Table for 1200 is a finalist in The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce Spirit of Winnipeg Awards. The pop-up dinner also received the 2014 Downtown Party of the Year Award from the Downtown BIZ.

14.12.17
The Arthur Residence wins a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence.

14.12.04
Five new projects have been added to the website:

0174 | OZ Condominiums

0369 | Pino [Helsinki Guggenheim]

0258 | 548 Stradbrook Condominiums

0320 | Handsart Residence

0310 | Arthur Residence
New project photographs have been added to:
0078 | youCUBE
0057 | Webster Cottage

14.10.03
AGGV wins the 2014 World Architecture Festival Future Project of the Year. 5468796 is featured in Issue #52 [Oct/Nov] of Mark Magazine. OMS Stage is published in the September issue of Monocle Magazine.

14.08.05
OMS Stage is published in the June issue of Architect Magazine.

14.06.18
Two new projects have been added to the website:
0337 | Table for 1200
0272 | AGGV

14.06.13
5468796 receives the sixth annual Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Prize. The international award recognizes architects and designers in the early years of their careers.

14.06.08
5468796 is privileged to participate in the inaugural meeting of the Van Alen Institute's new International Council in Venice, Italy during the preview of the Venice Biennale in Architecture.

14.06.03
The Avenue on Portage receives a Prairie Design Award of Excellence for Recent Work. Manitoba Start receives a Prairie Design Award of Excellence for Small Projects.

14.05.31
Table for 1200 (an initiative by 5468796 and StorefrontMB) hosts 1200 guests for an outdoor design-centric pop-up dinner on the Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge in Winnipeg.

14.05.01
OMS Stage is shortlisted for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture.

14.04.23
OMS Stage receives a 2014 Governor General's Medal in Architecture.

14.03.26
Colin travels to New Zealand  to participate in the PrefabNZ 2014 Conference and the NZIA Speaker Series.

14.03.03
T412 Exhibition opens at the Eric Arthur Gallery (University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design).

14.01.13
OMS Stage is published in Materials for Design 2 and The Avenue is an Architectural Record 2013 Editors' Pick for "Most Confounding Canadian Facade."

13.11.06
Three new projects have been added to the website:
0308 | HEDGE
0289 | Table for Twelve
0274 | Kee Condos

13.07.16
5468796 is selected by the Canada Council for the Arts as the 2013 recipient of the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture with Table for Twelve.

13.07.01
The Avenue is featured in Arquine No. 64 (summer 2013) and the June issue of Canadian Architect. 62M is the featured Idea Project in Architecture & Culture No. 386.

13.06.13
5468796 is 1 of 20 firms featured in the 2013 *Wallpaper Architects Directory.

13.05.31
5468796 is featured in the RAIC Awards of Excellence issue of Canadian Architect and the June issue of enRoute. Manitoba Start is featured in the May/June issue of Canadian Interiors.

13.05.24
Bond Tower will be featured in the British Council's Atlas of the Unbuilt World Exhibition.

13.05.07
5468796 is selected for the WAN 21 FOR 21 Award.

13.04.25
Bloc_10 wins an RAIC Award of Excellence for Innovation in Architecture.

13.04.19
62M is featured in the Globe and Mail.

13.04.02
5468796 receives the 2013 RAIC Emerging Architectural Practice Award. 

13.03.22
Guertin Boatport wins an Architizer A+ Award (Jury + Popular Choice) in the Port Facilities & Boat Piers Typology.

13.02.15
OMS Stage (Fabrication), Guertin Boatport (Port Facilities & Boat Piers) + Centre Village (Living Small) have all been shortlisted for an Architizer A+ Award. Public voting is open until March 8th.

13.02.07
The Avenue Building is featured in Architectural Record. 5468796 receives a Governor General's Medal in Architecture for Bloc_10 and lectures at the HUB Ottawa Brown Bag Lunch series.

12.11.29
Bloc_10 wins Architectural Review's Emerging Architecture Award in London, UK.

12.11.05
Bloc_10 wins Prairie Wood Design Award, Edmonton, AB.

12.10.04 
5468796 lectures at the Ryerson Department of Architectural Sciences.

12.10.03 
Bond Tower and Bloc_10 presented at the World Architecture Festival, Singapore, SG.

12.07.20
Bloc 10 and Bond Tower have been shortlisted for the 2012 World Architecture Festival Awards in Singapore.

12.06.07
OMS Stage published in Gestalten's new book, The Sky's the Limit.

12.05.08
Bloc10 is awarded a 2012 Governor General's Medal in Architecture.

12.04.27
5468796 wins two 2012 Prairie Design Awards. One for OMS Stage and one for Webster Cottage.

12.03.01 Arquine Conference
5468796 to present at the Arquine Conference in Mexico City

12.02.14
Bond Tower is chosen for the 'First Award' at the 2012 p/a awards from Architect Magazine.

12.02.14
Centre Village makes the shortlist of 7 projects for the 2012 Residential WAN Awards

12.01.30
5468796 selected for the 2012 Emerging Voices lecture series by The Architectural League NYC.

12.01.27
5468796 is featured as the Portfolio of the Week on The Atlantic Cities.

11.12.15
Bond Tower is chosen for a 2011 Canadian Architect Award of Merit.

11.12.02
5468796 chosen as one of 10 international firms for the annual Architectural Record Design Vanguard.

11.12.02
Added projects: 0212 Bond Tower | 0000 Stack | 0197 MB Start
Updated projects: 0022 BGBX | 0054 Boatport | 0133 Bloc_10 | 0078 youCube | 0169 Avenue + Hample

11.11.14
OMS Stage wins Project of the Year for Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Awards 2011

11.11.07
5468796 welcomes Eva, our new office manager!

11.09.15
5468796 wins the 2011 Arthur Erickson Memorial Award from Western Living Magazine

11.08.17
Centre Village and OMS Stage shortlisted for the 2011 World Architecture Festival.

01.08.11
Migrating Landscapes national design competition for the 2012 Venice Biennale registration is now open. Go to www.migratinglandscapes.ca for more information.  
Registration period : August 1st to September 15 

14.07.11
OMS Stage shortlisted for the 2011 WAN Interiors & Lighting Design Awards.

12.07.11
5468796 shortlisted for the Arthur Erickson Memorial Award as part of Western Living's 2011 Designers of the Year Awards.

11.07.11
5468796 welcomes Jordy to the team!

01.07.11
The Venice Biennale Migrating Landscapes national design competition is announced! See the Migrating Landscapes website for more details.

18.06.11
OMS Stage selected for People Choice in the 2011 AZ Awards | Jury Award Category! Big thanks to everyone that voted.

10.06.11
5468796 selected for the 2011 Winnipeg Arts Council "Marking a Mark" Award.

17.05.11
Of 114 entries, 5468796 is selected as one of 16 'highly commended' firms in the WAN 21 for 21 Awards.

09.05.11

5468796 along with Jae Sung Chon are selected to represent Canada at the 2012 Venice Biennale for Architecture. Visit the "Migrating Landscapes" website for details.

07.05.11
Added Avenue+Hample project.
Updated photos for WRHA, Bloc10, BGBX, and Welcome Place.

20.04.11
5468796 welcomes Jayne to the team!

19.04.11
OMS Stage wins a 2011 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Award of Excellence [for Art].

15.04.11
Our entry to the City of Edmonton Park Pavillion design competition titled "OVER / UNDER" for MillWoods Park receives a 'citation'. The design titled "Char" for Victoria Park is shortlisted.

Over / Under [PDF] | Char [PDF] | Dugout [PDF]

08.04.11
5468796 is a finalist in the Jury-created "Special Category" of the Azure Magazine AZ Awards for OMS Stage.

20.03.11
5468796 is a selected practice to be featured in the Twenty and Change 03 publication and exhibitions.

04.03.11
5468796 is the recipient of the 2011 Spirit of Winnipeg Award in the 'small business' category.

Updated the following projects:
0134 OMS
0011 Centre Village
0027 Welcome Place

02.02.11
5468796 is commended for a 2011 AR Future Projects Award for youCUBE

 

14.12.10
5468796 wins a 2010 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for Bloc10

14.12.10
5468796 wins a 2010 AR Award for Emerging Architecture for OMS Stage! The only North American project to do so this year. The whole office travelled to London, England to accept.

01.11.10
5468796 wins a 2010 Prairie Wood Design Award for both Webster Cottage and Holy Names House of Peace Dining Room!

22.09.10
5468796 welcomes Zach to the team!

Added the following projects:
0138 AnX

Updated the following projects:
0134 OMS
0133 Bloc10
0011 Centre Village
0057 Webster Cottage
0078 YouCube
0054 Guertin Boatport
0025 Venio Store

Exhibit, "Bridal Path" at Harbourfront Centre Toronto has come and gone.

01.08.10
Added the following projects:
0122 wrha on hargrave
0112 e_regulr house
0155 sunspot

08.07.10
Added the following project:
0134 OMS Stage ['The Cube']

Graphic updates for the following projects:
0011 Centre Village Housing Co-op

05.07.10
5468796 welcomes Maria to the team!

26.06.10
YouCube and Centre Village open show suites as part of the annual Downtown Living Tour.

25.06.10
YouCube ribbon cutting. Mark Penner[GSD] and Denver Kroeker[Artisan Homes] help 5468796 operate the big scissors.

23.06.10
5468796 [w/ Cohlmeyer Architect] wins a 2010 Prairie Design Award of Merit for Bohemier Residence.

18.06.10
'The Bridal Path' opens as part of Redux Park @ The Harbourfront Centre with Brook McIlroy and vlan paysages [w/ Atelier in situ].

17.06.10
OMS Stage ['The Cube'] opens! First public concerts are performed on the stage, followed by the MEME Festival and the Winnipeg Jazz Festival.

20.05.10
Johanna Hurme wins the 2010 Manitoba Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Emerging Business! We are all proud of you.

07.05.10
5468796 is 3! and we've moved to a new office at 266 McDermot.

22.01.10
BGBX is awarded a 2010 P/A Award.

16.12.09
YouCube is awarded a 2009 Canadian Architect Award of Merit.

13.12.09
Added the following projects:
0133 BLOC_10
0021 New Directions
0011 Centre Village Housing Co-op
0027 Welcome Place

10.10.09
Graphic updates for the following projects:
0078 YouCube
0057 Webster Cottage
0022 BGBX
0007 Bohemier Residence

20.09.09
0000 General | Congrats to Team 5468796 for winning the annual MAA Ken Pratt Memorial Golf Tournament!

0000 General | 5468796 part of the Twenty + Change Book 2

0078 Youcube | part of exhibit "Sounds like 1974" at UofM Arch II Gallery

0000 General | Congratulations to Colin, Architect!

27.05.09
0078 Youcube | phase 1 foundation permit granted! [confetti falls from sky]

15.05.09
0054 Guertin Boatport | "we should construct all of our buildings with helicopters" update

14.05.09
0126 Square Meal | project added

11.05.09
0000 General | 5468796 is 2.

01.02.09
0000 General | YouCube and BGBX accepted to twenty+change exhibit.
   
0072 Mitchell Copp | project added
0072 Mitchell Copp | featured in Winnipeg Free Press.
0057 Webster Cottage | project added

27.01.09
0078 Youcube | discussed in the Jury comments of Canadian Architects' Awards of Excellence 2008 issue.

05.01.09
0000 General | Office_v3. We've expanded.

01.01.09
0000 General | Happy New Year!

27.11.08
0000 Updates | created update column
0078 Youcube | updated graphic content
 

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Parkade

Calgary, AB

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  CMLC + CPA
  with Kasian as Architect of Record
  parkade & innovation centre | complete 2021
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  parkade and mixed use commercial
  300,000 sqft parkade and 50,000 sqft innovation centre
  2022 Architecture Masterprize
  2022 WAN Awards, Transportation, Gold
  2022 The Plan Awards, Transport
  2022 World Architecture Festival | Completed Project | Finalist
  2022 Consulting Engineers of Alberta | Commercial Building Engineering | Award of Merit
  2022 Prairie Design Award of Merit
  

Great public infrastructural projects provide fundamental services for cities that increase the quality of life for their users. As means of transportation evolve, how can these projects remain essential over time? Parkade of the Future approaches this issue by designing multiple futures for a singular purpose building. CMLC (Calgary Municipal Land Corporation) and the Calgary Parking Authority (CPA) commissioned 5468796 Architecture as Design Architects to design a ‘parkade of the future’ for a 2.25 acre site on 9th Avenue in Calgary’s East Village. The project consists of a 510 stall garage that anticipates converting into office, light industrial or residential typologies based on future needs.

The robust design strategy allows for gradual or wholesale change into any other use – the clear structural span of concrete combined with universal load-bearing capacity resulted in minimal cost ramifications while enabling multiple futures.

The structure’s first life as a 300,000 sqft parkade and 55,000 sqft innovation centre is marked by several high level aspirations that seek to reimagine the formulaic approach of the parkade typology. To transform both the vehicular parking circuit and the user experience from one of conventional, utilitarian function to one with rich, unexpected qualities, key typology-questioning approaches are pursued. High floor-to-floor height, 40 foot shallow floor plates, light-washed pedestrian- forward routes, elevated views in all directions, clear and simple wayfinding and straightforward, single- direction circulation come together to create a delight- full destination within a parking-heavy programme. Vehicular access, centred on the property and aligned with 3rd Street SE, is flanked by pedestrian entrances and activities, which animate the frontage along 9th Avenue SE and frame the southern edge of the developing East Village.

*Photography by James Brittain Photography

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Veil House

Winnipeg, MB

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  XYZ Design Inc. (interiors)
  complete 2022
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  single family residence
  5145 sqft incl. basement + 590sqft attached garage
  2023 World Architecture Festival Shortlist, Completed Buildings Villa
  

In a prairie-value, conservative-minded early 20th century Winnipeg suburb composed primarily of large-scale, traditional-style dwellings, our clients sought a home in which to age in place and to enjoy a high degree of both airiness and privacy.

Veil House is arranged on a loose nine-square grid organized around a central courtyard. The residence is configured as a series of free-flowing open living spaces, (living, family, dining, kitchen, circulation) framed by solid utility blocks, (washroom, laundry, fireplace, storage, appliances). This interplay eliminates the need for walls and doors.

The house is situated at grade — rare for a city that receives large amounts of snowfall — with an interior ramp that enables universal access across two floors. This floating feature ascends from the main level, allowing natural light into the basement while providing emergency egress. Firmly planting the main floor at grade results in a seamless extension of the interior spaces to the courtyard and surrounding yard.

The blocks and ramp are blanketed by a weathered steel veil. ‘Propped’ up by the utility blocks, the veil follows the ramp, starting at ground level spiralling up and peeling off the wall to enclose the private patio on top of the garage. Strategically perforated over windows and balconies, the veil creates a sense of wonder and curiosity from the street, while elegantly filtering daylight into the interiors and allowing those inside to view the outside world without being seen.

Veil House functions as both architecture and sculpture, drawing connections between architecture and industry, structure and decoration, retreat, and expression.

*Photography by James Brittain Photography

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Boom Town

Toronto, ON

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  The Bentway, Waterfront BIA, Toronto Downtown West BIA and City of Toronto
  Office In Search Of
  complete 2023
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  urban installation
  four bents and three boom lifts

Boom Town at the Bentway welcomes people of Toronto’s Lake Shore Boulevard and York Street intersection to the waterfront with a cast of characters that animate the site with personality and delight. A blue “stage” and a trio of “Bent Buddies” bring life to the gateway underneath the Gardiner Expressway, transforming the passage from an aging infrastructural giant into a playful experience for pedestrians and commuters alike.

The design responded to a call for temporary urban installations that would elevate the thoroughfare experience for both improved safety and enjoyment. Boom Town re-imagines the use of boom lifts and highway supports known as 'bents' characteristic of this often residual urban space.

Boom lifts are ubiquitously required for maintenance and repair of the expressway’s concrete and steel infrastructure. Largely unnoticed, they are always in a supporting role but never the main act. Revitalized with a fresh paint job, vinyl wrap, and seasonal costumes, ordinary machines are brought to life as the “Bent Buddies”, brand ambassadors for the Bentway. Inspired by their figural and anthropomorphic nature, the lifts are transformed from observers to actors in the theatre of the street.

  As a backdrop to their antics, the bents are painted a vibrant blue and wrapped in a chrome gradient pattern that captures and reflects sunlight during the day and the headlamps of passing cars at night. Referencing the Bentway logo, the icon is utilized for the way-finding signage on the columns and the boom's patterned costumes. The multiple and varied applications create a cohesive identity.

Boom Town will remain in place until 2025, when the section of the Gardiner Expressway overhead undergoes repairs.

*Photography by Remi Carreiro and Samuel Engelking © The Bentway

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90 Alexander

Winnipeg, MB

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  RNDSQR
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  adaptive reuse, mixed use residential/commercial
  140035 sqft new residential + 18940 sqft heritage commercial + 6525 sqft new commercial
  2021 World Arch Festival Future Project Finalist
  2020 Canadian Architect Award of Merit
  

Positioned between a recent condominium development to the south and the historically protected Eaton’s Warehouse building to the north, the 90 Alexander site today is expansive but narrow, and is one of the last remaining properties on the coveted Waterfront Drive [former rail line]. Running almost 330 feet east to west and approximately 150 feet north to south, it presents a challenging lot depth that required optimized configuration and building efficiency considerations.

A new 7-storey building winds around the existing brick structure, exposing all sides of the original building as an homage to its original free-standing form [uniquely, the entire building was constructed using face brick and remains in excellent repair after 115 years]. The building’s geometry maximizes the site density while creating a series of high quality public spaces. Defined through interplay of old and new these spaces vary in scale, light conditions, and compressed or expansive nature, offering opportunities for commerce and city building at different scales.

*Renderings and diagrams by 5468796 architecture.

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IW09

Calgary, AB

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  RNDSQR
  design development
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  adaptive reuse, mixed use residential/commercial
  165190 sqft + 7350 sqft heritage
  2020 AR Future Project Award | Highly Commended, Commercial Mixed Use
  2019 Canadian Architect Award of Merit
  

IW09, also known as RNDSQR Block, is an iconic mixed use project, woven carefully into the existing neighbourhood of Inglewood, Calgary. Prominently placed, it enhances urban life through a series of new exterior amenities while achieving density of use through 24/7/365 commercial, office, and residential programs. The existing 2-3 storey street fabric is being replaced by mid-rise structures. In correspondence, three floors of commercial retail build up from the sidewalk, referencing the scale and height of the Historic Building. Residential floors are stepped up and back from street level, achieved by twisting the entire form away from the Historic Building on the site’s Southwest corner, and the Lawn Bowling court to the Northeast. This cuts away overall mass, creates visual relief, and effectively ’thins’ out the tall portion of the building for residential use. The building form is shaped by site responses and to reduce its impact on adjacent properties. Maintained as a point of interest along the sidewalk, the renovated Heritage Building injects new life through universal access, roof activation, and via a new forecourt at its side. The remaining spaces extend public sidewalks through a diagrid arcade, with select elements removed to reveal building entrances on both streets, every corner, and the Public Lane. The 360 degree building design makes this possible by eliminating facade hierarchy and responding to each corner and public throughway.

*Renderings and diagrams by 5468796 architecture.

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James Ave Pumping Station

Winnipeg, MB

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  Alston Properties
  phase 1 | complete 2018
  phase 2 | complete 2019
  phase 3 | construction
  $22 M
  adaptive reuse, mixed use commercial/residential
  18000 sqft + 37500 sqft addition
  2020 ArchMarathon Finalist, Refurbishment
  2019 WAF Future Project Finalist, Residential
  2018 Canadian Architect Award of Merit
  

Slated for demolition after 17 attempts to revive the historic structure over the last 14 years, the James Avenue Pumping Station was successfully preserved through the development of a financial / building pro forma that would make it financially feasible. While the existing building’s foundation was not capable of supporting the construction of additional floors on top of the Pumphouse, a gantry crane capacity allowed for a new floor within the existing building. Incorporated as tenancy, this left the pumps on the main floor free and clear of complicated programming as proposed in previous revitalization attempts, and instead distinguished its adaptive reuse as one that celebrates the existing while creating a viable future life.

The development resulted in 10,500 sqft of elevated main floor commercial space and 3,000 sqft of ground level commercial space facing Waterfront Drive. On either side of the historic pumphouse three new 6 storey residential buildings will be constructed. They will be located 20 ft away from the existing building creating new ’streets’ that respect the original pumphouse and expand the ground floor store frontages. This multi-faceted, mixed-use development is the first proposal on the site that has gained the support of the community at large, the neighbouring condominium complexes and the historic buildings committee at the City of Winnipeg.

In keeping with the utilitarian nature of the original design, the new builds book-end the existing structure and subtly support its aesthetic through deliberately simple, modular forms. With views directed to the historical centre of the site, its storied past is highlighted and the human scale of a new perspectives can be seen in the approach to the site, the neighbouring exterior walkways, and the intimate alleyways formed between the old and new facades.

*Renderings and diagrams by 5468796 architecture. Photographs by James Brittain Photography except as noted.

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Beacon

Calgary, AB

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  RNDSQR
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  2020
  $12 M
  2 storey commercial + underground parkade
  25300 sqft + 32000 sqft parkade
  2022 World Architecture Festival Completed Project | Winner [Health Category]
  2021 Prairie Wood Design Awards, Commercial
  

Beacon is a health oriented commercial building that centres around a purpose-designed skin clinic. The building features three clinics [medical dermatology, aesthetic, and rheumatology] at the second storey level, retail units at grade, on top of underground parking.

Analysis of the building’s primary function revealed the importance of light modulation for a variety of processes and procedures in the clinic. The design evolves around different ways of bringing natural light into the spaces while reducing direct exposure to sun and glare: a tall clerestory perimeter that washes light against the roof’s light wooden undercroft; cut-away balconies at corners that softly light corridor spaces; strategically placed skylights; and a central lightwell that extends down through the two upper floors and pierces the parkade with light.

The interior centrepiece of Beacon is the multi-level lightwell that allows sunlight to travel through the building core all the way to the parkade, transforming the building’s inner experience for visitors from the very first point of arrival. The lightwell, enhanced with boreal landscape features, radiates into adjacent spaces in 360 degrees and embodies the natural and healthy ethos that the centre represents. Open to the sky, tall vegetation is envisioned to green the column and animate the interior life of the building.

On the top floor, a sequence of light-filled spaces is defined by a wood beam system, creating ceiling coffers and providing sound separation between rooms. Hundreds of micro-layers of laminated wood are stacked to form the monumental beams that reach down from the ceiling and form a datum grid. This grid supports the convex arc of the roof undercroft, which bows upward to meet the roofline at its perimeter and draws in a wash of natural light.

*Photographs by James Brittain Photography, diagrams by 5468796 architecture.

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Courtyard 33

Calgary, AB

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  RNDSQR
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  2021
  $15.5 M
  mixed-use [residential/commercial]
  72500 sqft + 32000 sqft parkade
  2017 Calgary MUDA Honourable Mention / Theoretical Urban Design Project
  

Courtyard 33, also known as CY33, is a six storey mixed-use building located at the corner of a gateway intersection to the emerging Marda Loop area of Calgary. The proposed development consists of ground floor commercial space with five levels of multi-family housing above, served by two levels of underground parking.

The building design carves into the large mass afforded by the 150 foot x 120 foot lot to introduce an elevated courtyard on the second floor where residents can connect and neighbourhood life can thrive. The public courtyard is accessed via two staircases, one from the main thoroughfare and one from the backlane. The primary staircase is treated as a grand entrance with a mix of landscaping and bleacher-style seating. Two additional commercial spaces open onto the courtyard, and spatial programming is flexible to encourage use by community members.

Residential units vary from one-bedroom suites to two-bedroom homes, providing attainable housing options for both individuals and families. Innovation and efficiency come through the implementation of a skip-stop corridor design. While multi-family buildings are typically designed as double-loaded corridors, the skip-stop strategy incorporates two-storey, through-units accessed via a private staircase. This arrangement serves to eliminate corridors on alternating floors and increases saleable area, while also improving cross-ventilation and access to daylight in many of the suites. A variety of conditions are necessary to meet setback requirements on each facade. The checkered [cellular] approach achieved through alternating composition of balconies and solid walls on all facades permits inflections at each cell, allowing the design to meet zoning bylaws while maintaining the uniform nature of the building. Increasing setbacks on upper levels, inset balconies that alternate positions on each floor, and exterior exit stairs also serve to reduce the overall building mass and draw more daylight into the building.

*Renderings and diagrams by 5468796 architecture.

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Maples Chiropractic Clinic

Winnipeg, MB

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  Dr. Gilbert Miranda
  complete
  2013
  commercial clinic
  2900 sqft
  2018 Prairie Wood Design Award
  

Maples Chiropractic is a busy clinic that recently relocated to an existing one storey strip mall in Winnipeg’s suburban Maples neighbourhood. The design-aware client wanted to refine the aesthetic experience of the clinic so that the space itself reflected the holistic, health-conscious ideology of the practice.

The project’s limited square footage is maximized through the introduction of a central spine rendered in standard dimensional lumber. The ends of the lumber are left exposed to best present the natural beauty of the material. The spine spans the length of the clinic and houses a number of functions, facilitating the sequential circulation of clients as they progress through different stages of treatment, beginning with the entry vestibule and intake area, and concluding with the follow up booking area.

The treatment rooms are organized along one side of the spine, with reception and adjustments along the other. A staff room and utility functions are housed at the back of the space.

Throughout the clinic, a modern material palette creates a simple and soothing effect; the presence of wood lends warmth and comfort, while white walls and glass make the best use of limited incoming daylight.

*Photographs and diagrams by 5468796 architecture.

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Crossroads Garden Shed

Calgary, AB

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  Calgary Municipal Land Corporation
  complete
  2016
  $100,000
  community garden pavilion
  320 sqft
  2018 ArchitizerA+ | +Urban Transformation
  2017 Calgary Mayor’s Urban Design Award
  2016 Platinum American Architecture Prize
  

The Crossroads Garden Shed demonstrates the value and capacity of architecture to transform communities with even the smallest of briefs. Intended to supply a growing neighbourhood with a simple storage structure for gardening tools and outdoor furniture, the original vision shifted drastically when re-approached as a unique opportunity to enhance the pedestrian realm. This discovery led to a rigorous design process, developing the project into much more than initially imagined, and activating the area for residents and visitors.

Inherently stable and waterproof structures, three 8 foot x 10 foot shipping containers establish the base structure. Selected for their utilitarian nature and in response to the brief and budget, these were placed to create intimate spaces in-between, while the overall structure acts as a threshold between the street, gardens, and play area. One container is a tool shed, the initial programme requirement, while the remaining two provide additional storage and programmable space, critical to evolving the structure into a civic amenity.

The containers are Cor-ten steel, making it a natural choice for the whole structure. Their corrugated geometry is ’multiplied’ and ’stretched’ through layering Cor-ten plates and expanded metal mesh, consequently softening the structure’s appearance. An oblong grid of hexagonal Cor-ten shapes create a domed surface to gather within; steel honeycombs open skyward in vertical flues and, connected by an overhead trellis, dapple the ground below with light.

The final design is the product of a formulaic analysis which optimizes both budget and design for the largest civic impact possible. The project focus is not only its merits as an object but the ability of the spaces between to foster community. The re-imagined SHED is a civic attraction that lends itself to further programming as the area grows and includes areas for work, shelter and relaxation.

*Photographs by 5468796 architecture except as noted.

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One Bucket at a Time

Mexico City, MX

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  Mextropoli 2017
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  2017
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  public pavilion
  2,500 five gallon Buckets
  2018 ArchDaily Building of the Year nominee
  2017 IDA Design Awards | Arch Pavilions
  2017 Glocal Premio Noldi Schreck finalist
  2017 Interior Design Installation BoY Award
  

In Mexico City’s metropolitan area, with a population of more than 23 million people, 4.5 million daily commuters navigate complex road networks, frequent traffic jams, public protests and parking shortages. The street—the prime public space—is the setting for all such friction. There, "viene viene" —entrepreneurs who function outside of government oversight —bribe the local police, use common painter’s buckets to claim a piece of the street, and charge hopeful drivers looking for a parking spot with an additional fee in exchange for access to their illegal stall.

One Bucket at a Time was inspired by this hijacking of public (parking) space and uses common painter’s buckets as the building blocks for an interactive pavilion. Connecting the buckets via a grid of ropes, the installation is a malleable surface that the public is encouraged to freely explore. The surface can be rolled, pulled together or up to a point or along a line taking on different forms. People can sit, run, play, stand, lounge, and participate in the act of taking over the public realm. In situ for a three day period, the installation will come down gradually, released from the ropes and absorbed by the city. By using buckets —a symbol of holding the public space hostage, we are highlighting and questioning this pervasive condition, and also empowering people of Mexico City to reclaim ownership of their public space, one bucket at a time.

*With Factor Eficiencia
*Photographs by Moritz Bernoully Photography and Jamie Navarro Photography.

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Brewery at The Forks

Winnipeg,MB

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  The Forks Renewal Corporation
  Construction Documents
  2018
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  craft brewery
  1,750 sqft (renovation) + 2,000 sqft (addition)
  2017 ArchMarathon finalist
  2016 Canadian Architect Award of Merit
  

The Brewery at The Forks is part addition, part renovation of a new craft brewery operating out of Winnipeg’s historic Forks Market. Height limitations and load constraints caused the existing market building to be unsuitable for use as a full production brewery. These restrictions created an opportunity to explore a new complimentary form that draws inspiration from the market’s past and the processes occurring inside.

Prescribed by surrounding site constraints, the brewery is compressed on a small footprint which generated the need to vertically stack the key functions of the brewing process, resulting in a design reminiscent of early gravity fed breweries. The process begins on the roof deck, where malted grain is stored in a series of exterior grain bins. From here, it flows to the top floor for crushing, mashing and boiling. The product then travels down to the floor in series of tall fermentation tanks. The brewmasters and public have their first interaction as testing and tasting occur simultaneously.

Drawing on the site’s industrial past, the addition interlocks with the existing building at each level of production, the geometry articulated as a series of cogs in the brewing process. On the exterior, a dual purpose steel skin wraps the structure providing support for the significant lateral loads in addition to framing a series of apertures that provide small glimpses of the process inside. A new entrance folds into the existing market building at the ground floor, revealing an intimate tap room inside the exiting market.

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Guertin Cottage

Storm Bay, ON

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  2017
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  cottage
  1,960 sqft
  

On the banks of Lake of the Woods, three black crests quietly emerge from a scattering of birch and spruce. The forms intersect with each other to create the Guertin Cottage, phase two of a three part lake-front property.

At the client’s request, the guest cottage evokes the form of a ’witches hut’ from the tale of "Hansel & Gretel". Atop a simple raised platform the cottage materializes as a sculptural ’ wooden tent.’ The predominant black roof line contains three high cones with three associated low brims; each component arranged on a checkerboard grid in plan. The resulting shroud meets the ground for privacy in the northwest and is pushed and pulled at the joints and edges of the roof line to allow for light, views, and the expansion of living space to the south facing the lake. The structure co-exists with the forest both in function and aesthetic, exuding a playful character for guests of the family - primarily their children and grand children.

Propped up on a heavy timbre frame, the roof and it’s skeleton forms a clear delineation of materials and structure that maintain the simplicity that is integral to the cottage design. Three low box volumes are positioned between the supports, designed to house utilities and to create rooms. Resting above two of these volumes are a pair of sleeping lofts. The third volume acts as a chimney servicing the interior and exterior of the cottage. These towering volumes act to draw up warm air and provide ample daylighting within the cottage.

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Chair Your Idea

Winnipeg, MB

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  complete
  2015-2016
  $30,000 for the winning idea
  crowdsourced urban ideas competition
  

Available to all Winnipeggers, Chair Your Idea is a crowdsourced and crowdfunded open competition that seeks to generate 1000+ urban design ideas and $30,000+ to realize the winning idea.

For a $25 registration fee, participants were asked to submit their creative initiative in 140 characters or less and contribute one white chair for public use to mark their submission. The chairs, with the ideas written on them, were placed in public locations throughout the city and cared for by participating local businesses for the duration of the three week competition period. The accumulating chairs and the creative ideas associated with them allowed Winnipeggers to enjoy newly claimed public spaces, take part in a discussion about urban design, and exchange thoughts on how to make our city even better.

At the end of the competition period, the winning ideas were selected by a high caliber jury and announced at a block party at City Hall, where the chairs were gathered for a final spectacular display of Winnipeg innovation and pride. The winning idea - to hold a contest for kids to design environmentally themed art for city transit buses to encourage youth ridership - was implemented in the spring of 2016. Working together with Art City, an art competition called Imaginary Superbus was held at The Forks on May 14th.

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The Tree House

Toronto, ON

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  Symmetry Developments
  construction documents
  2018
  $4.5M
  multi-family residential
  42,600 sqft [39 units]
  

The Tree House is a new low-rise, 39 unit townhome development in Toronto’s emerging Birch Cliff neighbourhood. The project raises the bar for high quality, contemporary architecture in the area by offering well-built, ample-sized and affordably priced homes and authentic community spaces for first time homebuyers, particularly families. Instead of a large residential building, The Tree House is composed of three separate block staggered to follow the property lines and maximize green space, with all required parking located underground. The multi-level two and three bedroom units range in size from 935 sq ft to 1325 sq ft. The project will appeal to buyers who desire both indoor and outdoor areas, with exterior access in the form of courtyards, private rooftop terraces and gardens. The shared courtyards provide open communal space for residents, encouraging social engagement.

The rhythmic, staggered geometry of stacked unit cells creates an ever-changing interplay of void and solid, shadow and light across the façade. The blocks are clad in anodized aluminum, which offers durability, modularity and beauty. The material’s almost iridescent quality provides a unique surface to receive and reflects light and shadow. Based on the length of the anodizing process, different shades are applied to each of the blocks so that the overall aesthetic remains consistent while still allowing for variety across the site.

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Parallelogram House

East St. Paul, MB

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  private
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  2014
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  single family residence
  2,700 sqft + garage + full basement
  2018 Governor General's Medal in Architecture
  2017 Architectural Review House Awards shortlist
  

Situated on a typical suburban street in a bedroom community just north of Winnipeg, the Parallelogram House stands in quiet and refined contrast to its stucco-clad neighbours. While the clients desired a one-storey layout for their young family, they also wanted to ensure that all of the bedrooms had views of the front or backyard. By skewing the floor plan into a parallelogram, the window area was greatly increased without increasing the footprint, opening the home up to a panoramic view of the trees and preserving the site’s southern exposure within the required setbacks.

The house is clad in vertical wood siding that wraps onto the underside of an extensive roof overhang, which is supported by a family of Cor-Ten columns that acts as both structure and screen, evoking the rich texture and shadows of the tree line. Together, wood and steel render the house as part of the surrounding landscape

Inside, the main living space is defined by an 11-foot high ceiling horizon and an open plan that flows around a freestanding utility box. The bedroom and garage wings are separated from the living space by white metal screens that extend the geometry of the exterior columns through the house. A simple and muted palette emphasizes the interior volumes, highlighted by a sequence of light wells and skylights.

*All photographs by James Brittain Photography except as noted.

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Lake & East Tower

Oakville, ON

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  Symgine Developments
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  2018
  $33M
  mixed-use tower
  160,000 sqft [144 units]
  

Lake & East is a 20 storey mixed-use tower located at an important gateway intersection to Bronte Village on the shores of Lake Ontario in Oakville. The project site is one of the last remaining underdeveloped properties in the area, which is characterized by a mix of high-rise towers and one storey commercial buildings. The project brief called for 140+ dwellings with complementary amenity and retail spaces at grade.

While the expected solution would be a podium and tower model, further analysis revealed a need to reconcile the village atmosphere with the density of the adjacent high-rises. The result is a series of scattered, boulder-like volumes at ground level that extend the low-rise fabric into the site, with a slender and reflective tower above. The tower’s cladding carries down to grade, where it wraps the site as a continuous, protective screen. The tower’s form arises from a desire to provide all suites with views of the lake beyond. At the same time, the skewed footprint preserves views from the adjacent 18 storey building and reduces the tower’s shadow impact on the intersection. The custom aluminum façade consists of a gradient of porous and solid panels, generating a pattern reminiscent of the concentric ripples produced by rain falling on water. Each permeable section unifies four to six units through interconnected balconies that create opportunities for contact between residents.