CANADA A SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITED BY BRIAN CARTER AND ANNETTE LECUYER VIEW 36 Venice Architecture Biennale; Cityscape Awards; Browser; exhibition diary VIEW FROM TORONTO 42 By Christine Samuelian COMMENT 46 Canada’s new spirit emerges from prosperity, social democracy and environmental consciousness CANADA 50 Quartier International, Montreal GAUTHIER, DAOUST LESTAGE INC, MARIO SAIA and others 58 First Nations Garden Pavilion, Montreal SAUCIER + PERROTTE ARCHITECTES 62 Festival theatre production centre, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario LETT/SMITH ARCHITECTS 67 Gleneagles Community Centre, British Columbia PATKAU ARCHITECTS 72 Science and Technology Centre, Toronto KPMB in association with others 76 Institute of Technology, Merritt, British Columbia BUSBY + ASSI ARCHITECTS 80 House and restaurant, Stratford, Ontario SHIM-SUTCLIFFE ARCHITECTS 83 Early Learning Centre, University of Toronto TEEPLE ARCHITECTS INTERIOR DESIGN 86 Stein Walk-in Medical Clinic, Vancouver PETER CARDEW ARCHITECTS HOUSE 89 House, Kingsburg Peninsula, Nova Scotia BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS PRODUCT REVIEW 92 Lighting BOOKS 96 Architecture’s new media; British Library; Modernism and after; Charlotte Perriand; hospitals DELIGHT 98 Millennial Time Machine Pavilion, British Columbia RODNEY GRAHAM, TIM NEWTON, JOHN WALL AND GARY SMITH COVER 50 Palais des Congrès, Montreal TETREAULT, DUBUC, SAIA ET ASSOCIES with HAL INGBERG Photograph by Hal Ingberg