Dispatch From Canada | Q&A Amongst Burgers Architecture Inc.
Thursday 23 March 2017
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| Burger Residence (photo Martin Tessler) |
Continuing alongside our series, Dispatch from Canada, today we're excited to characteristic the piece of job of West Vancouver-based architecture firm, Burgers Architecture Inc. Being fans of their piece of job for a spell now, nosotros were thrilled to inquire them a few questions close their trouble solid as well as thoughts on blueprint inwards the Canadian landscape. Here's our Q & H5N1 (as answered past times Mary Burgers):
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| Burgers Residence (photo Martin Tessler) |
Cedric’s parents Robert as well as Marieke Burgers founded Burgers Architecture inwards 1981. Robert received his diploma inwards architecture as well as technology scientific discipline from the University of Delft, Netherlands, as well as upon immigrating to Canada inwards 1967 the dyad began edifice as well as designing contemporary homes out of the piece of job inwards West Vancouver. Cedric received his Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia, as well as thus worked inwards the architectural offices of Daniel Liebeskind as well as landscape architects Muller Knippscheld Wehburg, both inwards Berlin Germany. He thus completed his architectural internship inwards his family's trouble solid inwards West Vancouver, nether the supervision of architect Robert Burgers as well as mentor Peter Cardew. I, (Mary Burgers) studied at Simon Fraser University as well as finished my score at St. Charles University inwards Prague earlier moving on to BCIT where I studied Interior Design. We get got a squad of talented architects, interior designers as well as technologists, continuing the vision Cedric’s parents had when they brought a crisp European minimalism to Canada over twoscore years ago.
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| Cedric as well as Mary Burgers (Photo Kyrani Kanavaros) |
Our adjacent projection is ever the most exciting one!
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| Burgers Residence (photo Martin Tessler) |
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| Burgers Residence (photo Martin Tessler) |
Living as well as working inwards Canada, what component of Canada inspires your piece of job if at all usage y'all think?
We are ever happy to accept inwards our immediate surroundings, as well as are constantly inspired past times this powerful, natural playground of rugged landscapes, windswept cliffs as well as gorgeous waters. Every chance nosotros tin flaming hold upwards outside, nosotros are, alongside the kids inwards tow, whether nosotros are sailing equally a identify unit of measurement upwards to Desolation Sound, or cross province skiing inwards Callaghan, or hiking as well as biking upwards these mountains. I intend this genuine as well as tangible human relationship nosotros get got to the outdoors translates to a deep agreement of the sites nosotros cook on, as well as the homes nosotros usage for our clients are intuitive as well as tasteful to their environments.
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| Residence - Bowen Island (photo Michael Boland) |
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| Residence - Bowen Island (photo Michael Boland) |
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| Photo Martin Tessler |
What are y'all currently working on that excites you?
Cedric as well as I late purchased a beautiful belongings alongside a lush, gurgling creek as well as lots of beautiful sometime trees hither inwards West Vancouver as well as are inwards the procedure of designing our novel abode together. It’s a sensitive landscape, which demands that nosotros are ecologically thoughtful, but interestingly what is happening is a novel agreement of what a luxury abode is. We are drawing from our surroundings as well as designing for good, cook clean air as well as ventilation, rooms that breathe inwards that they are non overstuffed as well as over composed, lots of natural light, plants, as well as the collection of rainwater, everything as well as anything that volition contribute to a holistic living environment. All those things y'all experience when y'all are outdoors, y'all should experience within too… lightness, breathability, freshness.
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| Photo Martin Tessler |
What Canadian Designers/Architects/Artists usage y'all admire?
Cedric has ever been inspired past times Arthur Erickson. Brent Comber is equally lovely equally a human equally he is a
designer. Niels Bendtsen is admirable merely equally much equally his lovely married adult woman as well as trouble organisation partner Nancy, I honour their dedication to the local blueprint community equally they locomote on to force the boundaries inwards seeking out novel designers as well as collections, spell they themselves usage such beauty themselves.
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| Ocean Residence |
Thank y'all Cedric as well as Mary as well as the Burgers family!
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