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m.o.r.e. Cabin

Location: La Peche, Quebec Architect: Kariouk Architects Most North American cottages look like they’re at one with the landscape, but they’re often just as unsustainable as other homes. While...

Go Home Bay Cabin (2015)

Location: Go Home Bay, Georgian Bay, ONArchitects: Ian MacDonald Architect Inc.Date of completion: 2015OAA Awards 2016 Design Excellence WinnerSet within a rocky landscape of wind-shaped white pines...

Woodhouse

Location: Singhampton, Ont. Architect: Superkül Inc. OAA Design Excellence Awards Winner Energy Efficiency and Carbon Stability Architects must play a role in stabilizing the climate change...

Muskoka Boathouse (1999)

Among Ontario’s millions of acres of forests and tens of thousands of lakes, no expanse has become more closely associated to cottages than Ontario’s iconic Muskoka region. Nestled between...

Camp Covid

There is no question that the COVID-19 crisis has affected vast sectors of the economy and the public in adverse ways, but in Architecture, as in economics, there are models of more resilient...

Castle Frank (1794-1829)

Few building types are as intrinsically knit into Ontario's cultural identity as the cottage, the wilderness retreat of thousands of Ontarians who have made these buildings part of their yearly summer...

Franklin Carmichael Art Centre

Location: Toronto, Ontario Date of Completion: 1932 Architect: N/A Nominated by: Hon. Doug Ford, MPP (Etobicoke North)   A gift to the city by one of its most celebrated residents, Thistletown’s...

Lake Cottage (2013)

The dialogue between building and nature - structure and site - is among the most fundamental considerations in the design of a cottage. Whether it is through materiality, siting, scale, or views...

Mink Islands Cottage (1996)

Georgian Bay’s eastern shoreline – characterized by distinctive granite outcrops, windswept eastern white pines, and the notorious Thirty Thousands Islands archipelago --- has long been a...