Tag Archives: adaptive reuse

Design team finalized for Calgary art gallery project

January 17, 2019 sadia_badhon

Gibbs Gage Architects (Calgary) and KPMB Architects (Toronto) have been selected to help transform the Centennial Planetarium in Calgary into a gallery for modern art.

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Montréal’s iconic planetarium repurposed as office space

January 16, 2019 sadia_badhon

Business incubator Centech’s new premises were inaugurated in the former Dow Planetarium, Montréal, last month.

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Menkes Developments to revitalize Sproatt’s Toronto building

January 15, 2019 sadia_badhon

A heritage building in Toronto’s financial district will be revitalized as an office environment. Designed by prominent Canadian architect Henry Sproatt, the building was originally the Canada Permanent Trust Building.

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Montréal audiovisual company creates unified workspace

January 10, 2019 sadia_badhon

Montréal-based audiovisual company, Attraction, moved into its new 4924 m2 (53,000 sf) collaborative workspace. Previously divided by two different floors, they left their closed offices behind to join together in a shared single floor space.

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Montréal university’s terrace repurposed as outdoor salon

January 4, 2019 sadia_badhon

Located on the Mount Royal Heritage Site, McGill University in downtown Montréal transformed its Leacock building to meet a new vision focusing on sustainable mobility, increased biodiversity, and innovation. In 2010, the campus was converted to become completely pedestrianized.

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Repurposing factories as townhouses with heritage flair

October 30, 2018 nithya_caleb

Located in the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal district in Montréal, the Monument project explores an architectural orientation that allows the design of bright, open residential spaces in a structure formerly dedicated to manufacturing and warehousing, while ensuring the conservation of the urban heritage.

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Making music in an old warehouse

September 14, 2018 nithya_caleb

When converting an old warehouse in Toronto into a music rehearsal and multimedia production facility, the lack of walls created multiple design challenges. A fully floating recording studio was created to achieve the required level of acoustical performance in the space.

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Adaptive reuse of Vancouver’s landmark Canada Post building

July 30, 2018 nithya_caleb

The redevelopment project of the Canada Post building in Vancouver by QuadReal Property Group is touted as one of the most ambitious heritage redevelopments in the country’s history, preserving the building’s architectural features through adaptive reuse.

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Two grain silo conversions win tall building awards

June 8, 2018 Samantha Ashenhurst

Nine high-rise projects from around the world received awards from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) at the 2018 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference in Chicago.

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Dumping Grounds to Soccer Stadium: Montréal’s innovative land reuse

May 17, 2016 Jennifer Wilson

Le Stade de Soccer de Montréal, completed in April 2015, is a new sustainable design icon for the city. However, the area was not always so appealing. Before being adapted into a sports facility, the land was used as a limestone quarry, and then as a dumping site. Throughout these transitions, the natural typography of the site was dramatically altered.

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