Winnipeg?s 5468796 Architecture and Toronto?s LAMA?s studio have been featured in the second edition of Domus Magazine?s 50 Best Architecture Firms list.
Assembled by architects and scholars who are former editors-in-chief of Domus, the list identifies the world?s 50 most creative emerging architecture practices.
Founded in 2007 in Winnipeg by Finnish-Canadian architect Johanna Hurme and the Bosnian-Canadian architect Sasa Radulovic, who were later joined by Canadian architect Colin Neufeld, Domus describes 5468796 Architecture?s designs as ?Calvinistical figures.?
The firm?s rigour and conceptual simplicity shows affinity with several European architects from the preceding generation, such as Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
The Avenue on Portage. Photo courtesy of winnipegarchitecture.ca Domus contributor Guido Musante writes that more than a few design experiments conducted by the Canadian office go beyond this affinity: ?They contain an organismic bent for eccentric surprises with a neo-avant-gardist touch. ?The Avenue on Portage? building (Winnipeg, 2012) and its shimmery cantilevered balconies of polished aluminium are a felicitous miniature reinterpretation of?the jutting terraces premiered by MVRDV in Holland for the WoZoCo apartments.?
In 2018, Wei-Han Vivian Lee and James Macgillivray founded LAMAS Architecture in Toronto. According to Domus, the firm represents a trend among architects to distance themselves from the purely formal work that preceded them thro...