When we speak of Canadian design, often we’re really referring to southern Canadian design. Our country’s largest cities, and the bulk of its population,…
Kobayashi and Zedda don’t simply take architecture you’d find in southern cities and plop it down in northern ones; they create some of Canada’s most unique and environmentally friendly buildings in response to the challenges of designing for often hard-to-access, sparsely populated territories with marginalized communities.Article content
Kobayashi is modest, but there are certainly some “sexy” inventions in his firm’s portfolio. For example, the geothermal glycol-based water loop KZA buried under a frozen lake in northern British Columbia that heats and cools the Taku River Tlingit First Nation Health Centre. The sci-fi sounding technology works by drawing heat off the lake’s bottom. The health centre has no chimney and burns no fossil fuels, making it one of the greenest buildings on the continent.
While most architects take inspiration from European cities such as Rome and Paris, KZA takes inspiration from other northern locales: Poland, Scandinavia, and parts of Japan. In 2006, the co-founders won the prestigious Professional Prix de Rome, which granted them $50,000. They used the prize money to travel the world and learn more about international design — although the ideas they brought back don’t always make it through Canada’s bureaucracy.
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