Lam, Elsa
Canadian Architect [REV]. -- Vol. 71, no. 4 (jun., 2026). -- Ontario : Southam Magazine Group, 2026. -- Canadian Architect
Contenido parcial: Our June issue turns the spotlight on new projects in Central and Western Canada.- Our cover story is Edmonton’s Coronation Park Sports and Recreation Centre, designed by a joint venture between hcma architecture + design and Dub Architects, in collaboration with FaulknerBrowns. Brian Allsopp explains how this striking new facility combines an Olympic-standard velodrome track with community recreation programs, juxtaposing these functions to allow for dynamic views throughout.- Next, Trevor Boddy visits Arthur House in Regina, designed by 5468796. As a design dedicated to discretion, this house offers a curt but polite hello to the public street, but has an unexpected richness inside: an engaging interior dialogue spoken in the tectonics of mass and light, writes Boddy.- Nelson, BC, is our next stop, where the revamped Hall Street Pier by MBAC and Stanley Office of Architecture connects stores to shores with a striking wood canopy, swimming area, and glass pavilion housing the world-record-holding 1922 Nelson-built Ladybird racing boat.- To cap off our journey in Western Canada, I visit Circle Wellness in Vancouver, BC. Designed by Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects, it renders the now-familiar sauna-and-cold-plunge most often experienced in group settings into a personal ritual, taking place within a series of shipping-container-sized private spas.- Our issue is rounded out by reviews of three books celebrating architecture in Ontario: Shannon Kyles’ The Story of Ontario Architecture: What We Built and Why We Built it, Dave LeBlanc’s Hidden Toronto, and Lynne D. DiStefano and Dan Schneider’s The Ontario Cottage: Perfect of its Kind.- This month’s AIA Canada Journal profiles the winning projects of the AIA Canada Society’s annual student awards program.- I also share my convocation remarks to the University of Toronto’s Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design’s graduating class of 2026.
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