Glen Gross, Travis Cooke, Markian Yereniuk, Jason Kun, Jordan Pauls, Kailey Kroeker, Mike Karakas, Jason Wall
The work of Winnipeg-based 1×1 architecture is a lot like the sorts of characters Gary Cooper played in classic movies: unpretentious, principled, and quietly charismatic.
Partners Travis Cooke, MRAIC, Glen Gross, MRAIC, Jason Kun, MRAIC and Markian Yereniuk, MRAIC, all in their forties, met in architecture school at the University of Manitoba and working at Cibinel Architecture. In 2010, they founded what is now an eight-person practice.
The St. Vital Park Pavilion in Winnipeg is inspired by the arcing form of a bird?s wing during takeoff. Photo by Lisa Stinner-Kun
St. Vital Park Pavilion, which serves as a picnic shelter in the summer and a heated skate change enclosure in the winter, embodies the studio?s mix of thoughtful design and resourceful pragmatism. The shelter was carefully positioned to preserve existing trees in one of Winnipeg?s oldest parks, and its adjacency to a duck pond inspired a roof evocative of flight. The type of bi-folding doors often used on auto showrooms provided an affordable, off-the-rack means of completely opening the pavilion?s long sides in warm weather. The Janzen Residence is a low-lying home set within the prairie landscape. Photo by Lisa Stinner-Kun
Janzen Residence, a house designed for an expansive Manitoba prairie site, has a sparseness that says ?Mies? and ?barn? at the same time. Many of 1×1?s other works are pa...