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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. Ethiopia, Demond Melancon, 2018. I like to listen to podcasts and art interviews, or I’m listening to my reggae music. Ethiopia, Demond Melancon, 2018.

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

Lee Alumni Centre and Ponderosa Hub, both at the University of British Columbia (UBC); Ottawa’s Global Centre for Pluralism for the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada; the Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan; and the recently completed Harrison McCain Pavilion for Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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The 10 Projects that Defined a Decade of Canadian Architecture

Azure Magazine

The Borden Park Pavilion was the first of several interventions by the architecture and urbanism firm, which also designed the magnificent natural swimming pool that recently opened there (one of our favourite projects of 2018 ). Audain Art Museum by Patkau Architects, 2016. the Audain Art Museum by Patkau Architects of Vancouver.

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

Moriyama & Teshima and Acton Ostry Architects ’ winning scheme for the mass-timber tower (formerly dubbed The Arbour) was announced in April 2018 and took home the AZ Award for Unbuilt Buildings the next year. Due to be completed imminently, the Hampi Art Labs is his most recent masterstroke.

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AZ Awards 2024: A Look Back at 13 Years of Design Excellence

Azure Magazine

Thirteen years — and hundreds of winners — later, our awards program is an established part of the international design landscape, regularly drawing more than 1,000 submissions from over 40 countries and across six continents. And along the way, they highlight a few Canadian treasures that confidently take their place on the global stage.)

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Grafton Architects’ Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Win 2020 Pritzker Prize

Azure Magazine

Renowned for crafting weighty, solid buildings of concrete and stone, the Irish duo was recognized by the Pritzker jury for an architectural approach that’s “always honest, revealing an understanding of the processes of design and construction from large-scale structures to the smallest details.” Solstice Arts Centre.

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Design in Conversation: Stephanie Hosein, Jeff Shaw, Jordan Rice, and Omar Gandhi

Azure Magazine

From Douglas Cardinal’s Canadian Museum of History and Raymond Moriyama’s Science North to John and Patricia Patkau’s Audain Art Gallery, the country’s public galleries and museums claim a leading place in the national design discourse, providing a civic lens through which we understand culture, art, history, and nature.