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Patkau Architects

Audain Art Museum, Patkau Architects, museum, British Museum, metal facade, wooden cladding, green architecture, flooding, glass walkways, British Columbia

Amazing elevated museum lets you stroll through the treetops in British Columbia

This angular museum meanders through a forest in British Columbia. Canadian firm Patkau Architects designed the...

Patkau Architects, Whistler, Hadaway House, Whistler valley, ipe wood, geometric home, wedge-shaped home, British Columbia, ski chalet, contemporary home, thermal mass, steep site

Spaceship-like ski chalet sheds snow with its sharp crystalline form

Commissioned by Martin and Sue Hadaway, the eponymous 460-square-meter home is clad in ipe hardwood planks and...

Patkau Architects, Tula House, Quadra Island, British Columbia, architecture, home design, BC architecture, green roof, blended design, floating homes, cantilevered decks, pacific ocean views, Governor General’s Medal, Canadian Architect Award of Excellence,

Breathtaking Green-Roofed Tula House Hovers Over the Craggy Cliffs of British Columbia

Inspired by the fairly hostile landscape of the island's topography, the architects used a combination of natural...

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