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Meet the Sprawling Ensemble Cast of Quebec’s Booming Design Scene

For the second year in a row, a show staged by the Montreal collective Ensemble (most deservedly) won DesignTO’s “Best Exhibition” award.

Words: Eric Mutrie
From: Design

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Sydney’s New Market Is Filled With Mass-Timber and Plenty of Fish

A landmark new building on the city's waterfront is as much a destination for seafood wholesalers as it is for architecture fans.

Words: Penny Craswell
From: Architecture

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Lounge Ware: 5 Outdoor Furniture Collections that Support Leisure Time

From a reimagined icon to sure-to-be classics, these outdoor furniture collections make the most of fresh air living.

Words: Kendra Jackson
From: Design

Tickets to Menu Extra’s debut dining pop-up, hosted at Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 around a bespoke 40-seat table by Modulor, sold out in just one hour.

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The Hospitality Industry Trades Routine Restaurant Meals for High-design Dining Pop-ups

How Menu Extra and Mason Studio opened some of Canada’s best restaurants — for a few nights only.

Words: Sydney Shilling
From: Design

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Public Joy, Part 1: Defining the Framework

Jay Pitter provides the core tenets for enshrining public joy in our public spaces through action-oriented place-making principles.

Words: Jay Pitter
From: Urbanism

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Meet the Sprawling Ensemble Cast of Quebec’s Booming Design Scene

Words: Eric Mutrie
From: Design

Sydney’s New Market Is Filled With Mass-Timber and Plenty of Fish

Words: Penny Craswell
From: Architecture

Lounge Ware: 5 Outdoor Furniture Collections that Support Leisure Time

Words: Kendra Jackson
From: Design

Guests gathered around a glowing diamond-shaped terrarium inspired by the brutalist architecture of the building’s nave.

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Words: Sydney Shilling
From: Design

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Words: Jay Pitter
From: Urbanism

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Scavolini’s Flair Collection Rounds Out the Contemporary Interior

Words: Azure
From: Design

4 Trends We Spotted on the Show Floor at Coverings 2026

Words: Sydney Shilling
From: Design

A Brutalist Icon, Milan’s Doomed San Siro Stadium Embodies Cultural Memory

Words: Nathan Abraha
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Trends: The Eames House Goes Prefab and a Halifax Home Basks in Blue

Words: Elizabeth Pagliacolo, Beth Hitchcock
From: Architecture, Interiors

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#314: Jan/Feb 2026

+ Jan/Feb 2026

Byoung Cho’s Sloped Roof House Meets the Ground — and the Mountain

On Jeju island, with a view of Sanbangsan, Sloped Roof House is the latest and most daring courtyard-typology house by Byoung Cho and his Seoul-based BCHO Architects Associates.

Words: Jinyoung Lim
From: Architecture

The open-concept kitchen hosts Kenneth Montague’s eclectic collection of salt and pepper shakers — and a trio of lithographs by Alexander Calder.

+ Jan/Feb 2026

The Art of Living: Inside Kenneth Montague’s Family Home and Gallery

The art collector's Toronto home may serve as a gallery for the Wedge Collection — one of Canada’s largest collections of emerging Black artists — but it’s a space for family first and foremost.