Interior Design

Perhaps nothing can kill a project budget or give an owner heartburn quite like costly code fixes during (or in the worst case, after) construction. As architects, we do our best to navigate construction codes during design, but there’s no denying their complexity. Projects have to comply with multiple different codes at both the federal and local levels; different codes sometimes even contradict one another, leading to headaches for the design team.

Perhaps nothing can kill a project budget or give an owner heartburn quite like costly code fixes during (or in the worst case, after) construction. As architects, we do our best to navigate construction codes during design, but there’s no denying their complexity. Projects have to comply with multiple different codes at both the federal and local levels; different codes sometimes even contradict one another, leading to headaches for the design team.

In 2009 BOLLES+WILSON won the 1st prize for housing and a kindergarten on the site of the 1960s St Sebastian Church. It was expected that the emblematic oval form of the church be demolished. Instead the kindergarten colonized the nave. It was opened in 2013 – a much published reuse with interior green weather protected play decks.

In 2009 BOLLES+WILSON won the 1st prize for housing and a kindergarten on the site of the 1960s St Sebastian Church. It was expected that the emblematic oval form of the church be demolished. Instead the kindergarten colonized the nave. It was opened in 2013 – a much published reuse with interior green weather protected play decks.

Private Sezin School Open Roof Space is a ‘beyond-classroom’ pedagogical space with a spatially hybrid program that fosters meeting, making, learning and working. The key question in this project was how ATOLYE could transform a progressive K12 school towards a pedagogical laboratory for 21st century skills.

after years of planning and nine months of construction, the ottawa institution has officially opened the new ‘canadian and indigenous galleries’.

The post adrien gardère opens renovated galleries inside moshe safdie’s national gallery of canada appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.