CBC-Steven and Chris show is doing a TV episode featuring the Mini Craven House in Toronto. The episode is airing Thursday April 5th on CBC @ 2pm. If you miss it on TV then you can absolutely catch it on our website – www.cbc.ca/stevenandchris

“The Modern Shop was opened in the summer of 2010 to address a need for a fine modern lighting & furniture store in the Ottawa / Gatineau area. The Modern Shop prides itself on selling quality designs from some of the best brands in the world. We will match any price found online and offer free shipping on most items”

Modern Shop

TV episode on Linebox Studio and Lighthouse – 1×5 des espaces et des idées Saison 2

CASA TV Episode-29

CASA TV episode on Foldplace – Stair is now posted the Casa TV website.
CasaTV

“Town aims to be unique: a passionate artisanal restaurant, family owned and operated in downtown Ottawa. We’re bringing experience from some of the best restaurants in town and will be spending all our time creating great food and a warm atmosphere. Come as you are—you’ll have a great time.”

“We aim to build a unique experience for everyone. Town will be bright, warm, and energetic: an oasis on Elgin from work, chores, or a particularly hectic day.”

town

A blog site dedicated to all things modern in the city of Toronto – Architecture – Art – Design – Furniture – Technology.

“Your local source for Toronto’s contemporary architecture, art, design, and technology.”- Modern Toronto

Modern Toronto

World-Architect

Amazing store and pieces…..Makes you wonder why in today’s world we seem to devalue more and more the beauty and integrity of an object.

“My expertise in modern design is derived from over 30 years of collecting experience, coupled with an extensive library assembled over the same period. The hundreds of reference books, trade magazines, exhibition and auction catalogues provide a basis for what is gleaned through search and acquisition and handling of thousands of objects.” – Found Design

Great Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal based magazine showcasing healthy and progressive stories big and small!

“Spacing is one of the most unique magazines to appear on Canadian newsstands in years. The magazine uncovers the joys, obstacles and politics of Toronto’s urban landscape by cutting through the cynicism that often pervades any discussion about urban issues. Spacing pushes readers to think critically about how they can shape the public spaces that surround their everyday lives.” – Spacing Magazine

We just started designing a modern sustainably focussed home for a client that specializes in Rammed Earth Wall technologies.  Being a very unique client and home we decided to start a blog that will follow this project from start to completion.  This home will   be contemporary, sustainable, budget sensitive and will present very compact ways of living. 

Follow us as the project evolves and feel free to ask questions.

Rammed Earth Home

“Toronto Design Offsite is a shortlist of parties and exhibitions that visitors to Toronto design week can trust will be filled with innovative and inspiring art and design. Formed by an association of several ‘offsite’ shows, all of our exhibitions and events have been hand-picked because they feature and promote the best in new, Canadian practices – not only the art and design within each show, but also the ways they are organized and produced.”

http://todesignoffsite.com/

“From LineBox Studio, a modern infill that “fits both the dimensions of its irregular and narrow (20′x60′) lot, and the owners’ pattern of working and living.”

Article

“Urban Capital is organizing a series of interactive lectures to discuss the evolution of design. For the next couple of months a series of five lectures regarding design trends in the city building, architecture, fashion, interior design and industrial design will take place in Ottawa and Toronto.”

NIGHT 1 | SEP 16 2010
Fashion Trends by Lara Ceroni, editor at ElleCanada.com

NIGHT 2 | OCT 28 2010
New Thinking in Designing Cities by George Dark, Partner at Urban Strategies Head

NIGHT 3 | NOV 25 2010
Where Industrial Design is Taking Us by Julian Goss, Program Chair of Industrial Design Department at the Ontario College of Art & Design

NIGHT 4 | JAN 27 2011
Architecture in Our New Century by Robert Claiborne, Design Lead at Cannon Design Lead Architect

“Tikifish uncovers the wild and wacky remnants of mid century modern architecture hidden away in various corners of the Megacity. Even if you live here, you may be surprised!”

TIKIFISH

“MIKAZA HOME is Ottawa’s best place for Modern Furniture and Modern Classic Reproductions. We ship across Canada!”

MIKAZA HOME

For anyone that followed the blog on the “Mini House” here is a link to a story about it and its owner in the Globe and Mail.

Globe and Mail – Article

How Walkable is your neighborhood? Pretty interesting website that rates the walkability of your neighborhood.

Walk Score

 ”Walkable neighborhoods offer surprising benefits to the environment, our health, our finances, and our communities.

Environment: Cars are a leading cause of climate change. Your feet are zero-pollution transportation machines.

Health: The average resident of a walkable neighborhood weighs 7 pounds less than someone who lives in a sprawling neighborhood” – Walk Score website

For anyone that may be interested a couple of our projects (Mini and Butcher) have been posted on The Slow Home website including a interview with me about the Mini House.

The Slow Home

“Slow Home Studio is an educational resource for people wanting to live a more sustainable, higher quality kind of domestic life. Our goal is to provide relevant, easy to understand design advice and information for home owners, home buyers, design enthusiasts and design professionals” – The Slow Home

“While the house is definitely small – and totally not the norm – I believe there is a large number of people interested in a house like this who aren’t served by the building industry. Just as some smaller sized condos work better than larger ones because of a really good floor plan – a modern compact home can work in the same way” – Client

We are very proud to have one our Ottawa projects feature in Canadian Interiors Magazine. “To the Lighthouse” by – Rhys Phillips

Lighthouse – Page-53

Canadian Interiors Magazine

We are very please to be selected as one of style magazines “trend setters” for Ottawa – 2010.

“Architect Andrew Reeves is a lot like the homes he designs —he has a modern edge while also conveying a feeling of comfort and invitation” – Charles Enman

style Magazine – Autumn 2010

Edition 10 will continue to highlight the work from the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University.  This eddition continues to showcase critical and captivating explorations into the realm of architecture through an ever growing reach and influence.

Event details;

Building 22 – Book Launch
Friday, October 1 at 6:00pm
Location: Mikaza Home & Petit Chicago, Hull

We are very excited to be hired as the Architects for a new contemporary single family residence that will focus on green building technologies, its ecological footprint, off grid power and use rammed earth walls as its primary construction method.  Because of the uniqueness and healthy environmental focus of this project we decided to start a blog dedicated to its design and development from concept to completion.  This should be a very interesting journey and one that we hope spreads knowledge and awareness.

Rammed earth home

“OTTAWA CITIZEN — A most unusual building hugs the corner of Pretoria Avenue and O’Connor Street. The concrete walls could easily be the palette for a collection of ancient cave paintings or the pictorial history etched onto the side of a large mud hut set on the African savannah.  Using a piece of bone, the homeowner, who also happens to be a talented artist, has covered the large concrete panels with a series of free-flowing elements to produce a unique, award-winning work detailing the history of this shop-home that was built 109 years ago.” -  By Gillian Magnan, Citizen Special

Link to the Archticle