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SABMag 54 - Winter 2016-17

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King Edward Villa

Innovative thinking derives maximum benefit from construction budget King Edward Villa is a six-storey mixed-use building located in east Vancouver. The ground floor commercial space and the single level of underground parking are constructed in concrete, with five storeys of wood frame construction housing 77 rental apartments above. By Jim

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Continuing Education: Designing Interiors for Human Health

Designing Interior Environments that Support Human Health Although we have known for a long time that Canadians spend over 90% of their time indoors, only recently have we consciously begun to design environments that not only meet health and safety regulations, but also actually improve occupant health and wellbeing. By

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SABMag on high-performance housing: MAFCOHOUSE

Modernist, modular design comes to cottage country Picture a mid 20th century Case Study house overlooking Los Angeles; the flat roof and glass walls, the refinement of form and Modernist ideals. Now transpose those forms and philosophies into the 21st Century amid the lakes and forests of the Canadian Shield

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Stade de Soccer de Montréal

Dramatic neighbourhood stadium pursues ecological restoration and high embodied energy The land now occupied by the St-Michel Environmental Complex has a long history of human intervention: being used first as a mining centre, then as a dumping site. The impacts have been both ecological and symbolic, with environmental neglect translating

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