In 9 days the Toronto Offsite Design Festival will begin, and once again Coolearth is hosting a window installation. See our previous years installations here, and here. We’re happy to be hosting MAGICBOX, and installation exploring how the world of “smart devices” still remains in an old paradox of flat, rectinlinear screens and boxes, …
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Coolearth wishes to extend their thanks to all of the clients, engineers, tradespeople, architects, and everyone around the world a Happy Holidays! At the firm we designed these giant pop-up cards with the words Peace, Love, and Joy, in order to celebrate what is truly great and important in our lives. Politicians and …
Sustainable architecture encompasses the energy a building uses, as well as the materials used. Any reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions required to product a building will contribute to the global effort to fight climate change, immediately. This is the idea of doing things efficiently: accomplishing the same task with less energy allows us to either store, or …
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A big thank you is necessary to everyone who came out to the Roundtable on Tuesday to Meet Ontario’s Next Generation of Passive House Designers. Students from Ryerson, Waterloo, and Humber College, as well as industry professionals (Contractors, Material Suppliers, Energy Consultants, and Architects) from across Ontario came together to listen to students …
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Many of our clients own detached or semi-detached homes in Toronto from around the WW2 era and are looking to either renovate or add an addition. Today we were wondering whether it makes sense for our clients to combine a Renovation and/or Addition with an overall energy efficiency upgrade on their homes through the use …
On November 17th we are hosting an event entitled “Roundtable: Meet Ontario’s Next Generation of Passive House Designers” on from 6-9pm at our office. This is an opportunity for six groups of architecture students, who are part of the Passive Building Show, from three of Ontario’s Architecture Schools as they present their work to …
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