Pamela Young

Oct 1, 2024 | canadianarchitect.com | Pamela Young |Jessie Mendoza

“What do you feel is unique about your practice or process?” this year’s Twenty + Change entry form asked. “Every project, no matter its size or context, is a venture aimed at either confronting fundamental challenges or fostering experimentation,” Nonument founder Dom Cheng responded. For Cheng, gaining extensive experience at leading design firms was the run-up to that leap into investigation and experimentation. His 2005 entry in the University of Toronto’s portfolio competition for M.

Oct 1, 2024 | canadianarchitect.com | Pamela Young |Jessie Mendoza

If it’s not one thing, it’s another–or better yet, a bit of both. Aránzazu González Bernardo, who is from Spain, and Michael Fohring, a Canadian, met when they were both working at an architectural practice in Austria. The couple, who founded Toronto-based Odami in 2017, describe themselves as two very stubborn people with very different architectural educations.

Oct 1, 2024 | canadianarchitect.com | Pamela Young |Jessie Mendoza

Balance matters to Vanessa Fong. Whether the challenge is figuring out how to use natural materials to take the chill off clean, contemporary lines, or balancing family life with a demanding career, she’s given careful thought to getting the ratio right. In becoming an architect, she struck a balance between the careers her Asian-immigrant parents envisioned for her when she was growing up in Toronto—medicine and accounting were at the top of their list—and her own affinity for creative work.

Oct 1, 2024 | canadianarchitect.com | Pamela Young |Jessie Mendoza

In 2006, when Geneviève Noël saw T. Maginnis Cocivera’s competition-winning M.Arch thesis on sewage biofiltration, it was a meeting of environmentally aligned minds. Raised in Quebec’s trees-and-skis Eastern Townships, Noël grew up knowing that she was Québécoise with some Indigenous ancestry, with the latter largely assimilated into the former.

May 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Pamela Young |Dwayne Smith |Kathy Reichs |Stacy Willingham

For readers who like their detective stories with a “will they or won’t they” romantic dynamic. Two Black private investigators have to go on the run when a missing person case turns deadly. Mackenzie Cunningham and Jackson Jones run their own PI agencies in Los Angeles but keep bumping into each other after they’re hired separately to find a missing woman.