The design event this year I’m most excited for is the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games
Sahra Samnani is a Vancouver-based interior designer with a distinct eye. Her palettes are minimal – white, grey, the occasional hint of oak – and her lines are razor straight. But in the future, she doesn’t think her clients will necessarily come to her because they feel an affinity for her aesthetic. “Increasingly, people are aware of the importance of wellness,” she says. “They want a sense of health and mental well-being in their homes.
Critically, Fortin sees Indigenous and northern architects playing a leadership role. “Instead of the south supplying what it thinks the north needs,” he says, “I see a change happening where things are more regionally focused, with ideas coming from the north and stimulating the economy in the north. It’s important that our architecture reflects the lived experience of being in a place, because that experience is meaningful, and ultimately provides a deeper knowledge.
But that doesn’t mean that at his new, eponymous studio, Wolfond will cravenly pursue the novel. Quite the opposite. “There’s a tendency to get caught up in the idea of newness,” he says. “But in thinking about sustainability, we can’t just make new materials and technologies all the time. We are going to have to be better at recognizing the merits in the things we already have that have been working well for a long time.
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