The Canadian Architect magazine is Canada’s only monthly design publication designed for architects and professionals practicing in Canada. The magazine includes articles on current practice, building technology, and social issues affecting architecture.
The images along the article ‘Watching it Unfold’ grabbed my attention. The article reviews the design of film-editing studio in Toronto, designed by Giannone Associates Architects Inc. The space of the design was treated very well.
The energetic skeletal like structure serves as a strategic transition within the interior between the studio and the kitchen. The sculptural descending celling offers a dynamic enclosure. The design overall generates an attractive visual flutter of new and old, structure and image, load-bearing modernity and postmodern lightness.
The use of material in Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat building in Ottawa interested me. The building was designed by a veteran Japanese architect, Fumihiko Maki. The design must contain a material palette that would range from clear to translucent in order for the architect to capture the Islamic spirit. 
The combination of Woven glass-fibre mesh and aluminium screens modulated the interiors quality of light. Right underneath the glass roof, the lattice screens constructed of lightweight aluminium add another dimension to the visual clarity and translucency. The placement of these materials generates a dynamic array of shadows on the maple floor.
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