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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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