Residential
CondoBusiness
Maintaining a condominium’s curb appeal
Updating a building's common elements will bring new investors, new owners and new visibility in an ever-growing ...
CondoBusiness
Luxe downtown lofts win architecture award
500 Wellington St. W. was recently recognized as Toronto’s favourite new residential building at this year’s ...
Design Quarterly
Colour trends for the kitchen
This year's overarching theme will focus on clean vertical and horizontal lines, using shades of grey and touches of vibrant colour.
Design Quarterly
The lure of luxury
Soaring 32-storeys, Three Harbour Green is the tallest of the three Harbour Green towers in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour. But that is not the only reason this luxury condominium stands above the rest.
Design Quarterly
Digital fever
Ink-jet technology represents a new system of floor and wall tile decoration that is positioned to alter the way ceramic and porcelain is decorated.
Design Quarterly
High-performance bathrooms
From varying faucet spout heights to all inclusive shower systems, designs are effortlessly blending technology and style, while allowing personal customization to enhance daily activities in the home.
Design Quarterly
Beyond the colour wheel
Effective use of colour must always be motivated by a clear design rationale that can be related aesthetically to the built form, functionally to wayfinding or branding, or psychologically to the needs of the end user.
Design Quarterly
Beyond the walls
The most significant trend is the kitchen that creates a seamless transition between indoors and out. Today’s kitchen contains all the desired accoutrements that can adapt to serve both spaces in a cohesive way.
CondoBusiness
Making the right flooring choice
Making the right flooring choice and then installing and maintaining it properly can result in years of durable service and significant cost-savings.
Design Quarterly
The outdoor kitchen
The outdoor kitchen has become the new indoor kitchen, encompassing all the conveniences of an indoor kitchen so delicious culinary creations can be executed from start to finish outside.
Design Quarterly
The ratings are in
As television prices continue to drop and sizes increase, designers need to rethink room design.
Design Quarterly
The “live-in” kitchen
The new kitchen revolves around changing where traditional work centres are placed within an expanded roomscape still labelled the kitchen.



