Online retailer Needs & Wants Studios has collaborated with a Toronto architecture student to transform a shipping container into a mobile boutique that serves as the brand's first physical store (+ slideshow). More about Shipping container serves as mobile boutique for luxury sportswear brand Needs & Wants
Canada-based architect Reza Aliabadi has completed a home made up of vastly different halves at a lakefront site on the outskirts of Toronto (+ slideshow). More about Reza Aliabadi's Opposite House in Toronto is split down the middle
Toronto firm Reigo and Bauer has created a three-bedroom home in the city, which features a hot pink entrance and is otherwise clad in black shingles (+ slideshow). More about Bright pink doorway marks the entrance to Reigo and Bauer's Winona House in Toronto
Canadian firm Ian MacDonald Architect has completed a family retreat in southern Ontario that cantilevers over a rocky hillside and is designed to be mostly hidden from view (+ slideshow). More about Ian MacDonald hides island cottage in Ontario within a pine forest
Local firm Tom Chung Studio has converted an industrial space in downtown Toronto into a multi-purpose venue with rooms and furniture that can be easily reconfigured. More about Tom Chung transforms factory floor in Toronto into flexible workspace
Plant Architect has used weathering steel to create a series of wing-like structures for bird watchers in a Toronto park, which are punctured with both patterns and information about local species (+ slideshow). More about Bird-watching pavilions by Plant Architect are made from perforated plates of weathering steel
Canadian architecture studio UUfie has inserted polycarbonate partitions into a medical clinic, part filling them with glass to create a hazy "horizon" (+ slideshow). More about UUfie completes light-filled Ontario medical clinic with translucent polycarbonate walls
The interior of this juice bar in Toronto is lined with a prefabricated cedar structure that is designed to be dismantled and reconstructed in future locations (+ slideshow). More about Kilogram Studio designs cedar-lined interior for Toronto juice bar
The wooden facade of this Toronto property by local practice Williamson Chong Architects is set-back and angled towards a nearby ravine (+ slideshow). More about Williamson Chong Architects adds "carved" facade to Toronto family home
Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled designs for a major residential development in downtown Toronto, reminiscent of the experimental housing complex built by Moshe Safdie in the 1960s (+ slideshow). More about BIG designs "Habitat 2.0" for Toronto
A transparent sauna that exposes its bathers and a charred timber globe offering refuge from the chilly weather are among this year's Winter Stations installations on the shores of Lake Ontario (+ slideshow). More about Winter follies open along the frozen beaches of Canada's Lake Ontario
Canadian firm ZAS Architects + Interiors used an algorithm to create the triangular patterning on the facade of the new Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence in Toronto (+ slideshow). More about ZAS wraps a Toronto engineering school in a tessellated metal and glass screen
This enclosed bridge with a geometric black and white facade connects a hotel to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, helping visitors pass between the two even in the depths of winter. More about Covered bridge provides all-weather connection between Toronto hotel and convention centre
Irish studio Heneghan Peng Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design for the Canadian Canoe Museum in Ontario – a wavy waterside structure with glass walls and a grass roof (+ slideshow). More about Heneghan Peng unveils winning design for canoe museum in Canada
British designer Tom Dixon has created a kitchen designed to resemble jagged chunks of ice and made using quartz surface material Caesarstone. More about Tom Dixon presents angular Caesarstone kitchen referencing frozen lakes in Canada
Design retailer EQ3 is debuting a capsule collection of furniture, objects and accessories called Assembly by 10 emerging designers from Canada at the Interior Design Show in Toronto. More about EQ3 showcases 10 emerging Canadian designers at Toronto's Interior Design Show
A fur-lined globe, a steam-emitting canoe and a transparent sauna are among the winning designs for a series of shelters to be erected on the edge of Toronto's frozen lakes (+ slideshow). More about Winter Stations proposals unveiled for Toronto's frozen beaches
This house near Hamilton, Ontario, relies on a combination of fireplaces and straw walls to keep it warm, with a rooftop meadow adding to its green credentials (+ slideshow). More about Straw bales insulate monochrome house in Ontario by Nicolas Koff
This family home in Toronto by local firm Paul Raff Studio features a brise-soleil made of aluminium louvres, designed to "bounce sunlight deep into the space". More about Aluminium louvres screen facade of Toronto home by Paul Raff Studio
Snøhetta has completed a student centre for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, featuring chamfered edges and a patterned glass facade (+ slideshow). More about Fritted glass creates patterned facade for Ryerson University student centre by Snøhetta