OCT

Pleasing possibilities: Ecological demo house Quebeck, Canada by Gervais Fortin with the Ecologia Foundation.

Pleasing possibilities: Ecological demo house Quebeck, Canada by Gervais Fortin with the Ecologia Foundation.

Photos: Alexandre Parent

With an enthusiastic owner, keen to commission a healthy house that would help her to reduce her ecological footprint, things previously out of reach become possible. This is the first house in Quebec aiming for a Platinum LEED Certificate, but to get there, the design team have not had to sacrifice the quality of the spaces they have created.

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MAY

Spirit in tension: Pagoda by Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects + Sunao Koase + Maniackers Design

tower in landscape

Photo: Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects

Philosophers have grappled with the idea of an object, a place, or being, having spirit, throughout the ages. Culturally such notions are well developed in Japan where the spirits of certain inanimate objects such as particular rocks, are sometimes revered. Prosaic questions such as what is the spirit, and when is it present are perhaps missing the point, but when people respond to a spontaneous manifestation of spirit in a particular place, there is something to note.

This is what happened with the Pagoda, an elegant polished tower designed by Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects + Sunao Koase + Maniackers Design. Located near the holy mountain of Takeyama, where beliefs were collected since ancient times, the tower sways in delicate tension with nature. Read more

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