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Whether it’s a mountain top skiing hut or a off the grid backcountry hut, rammed earth, reclaimed cedar or sod, there’s a good chance you’ll find it in our pages.

Designed by Cover Architecture, the new Confluence building will house the city’s Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Centre while adhering to state-of-the-art Passive House certification.

The Crescent is a new 102-unit housing complex at Red Mountain Resort in Rossland, British Columbia. It’s being promoted as the future of alpine flats, but its history harkens back to an all-female team that forever changed the sport of hockey in Canada.

A team of self-professed high-tech Kootenay hippies is helping build a tower of timber within Vancouver’s glass and concrete skyline.

The teachers at this esteemed Olympic Peninsula institution know that while owning a boat will change your life, building one may change who you are.

Red Mountain and the Columbia Basin Trust have announced a partnership to construct a new hostel at the base of the resort.

The Columbia Basin Trust is currently supporting 42 heritage projects around the Kootenay region with over $2 million.

Who has a richer life: Whistler’s wealthy and worldly or woodworker and dad of one Zeke Helliwell? Depends how you look at it. Photos and…

A-frames were born from utilitarian roots, then embraced throughout the 1960s and 70s by holiday home builders in vacation destinations worldwide. Now , a Vancouver…

Nelson-based Purcell Timber Frame Homes was just recognized by popular design and architecture magazine Dwell in an article called, “20 Modern Prefab Companies Perfect For…

For the unchurched among us, finding sacredness in the everyday means not caring about tomorrow. FOR A CERTAIN BREED of self-absorbed thinker, the latest news from…

For over 25 years, a fight has been raging in the heart of British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains. The proposed construction of Jumbo Glacier Resort in the…

He’s done with this place. The fickle weather. The giant smallness of it. Everywhere he goes, it seems, there’s a requisite hug, a wave, the…

A Norwegian mountain town long cloaked in shadow finally sees the light. Funded by local donations, assorted government grants, and sizeable funds from Norsk Hydro—the…

As the swifts gather their numbers overhead, human families snack on KFC, or, this being Portland, Tilth-certified vegan picnics washed down by sulfite-free Pinot. At…

the abyss, and I begin to imagine every single bad thing that could happen to me right now. Like climbing mountains or venturing deep into…

Seattle outdoor brand KAVU wanted to celebrate the launch of their apparel, bag and accessories line in Canada so they spent a weekend in Fernie…

Baldface Lodge is excited to announce a brand new two-story, 9,000 square foot, 26 room dorm style building to replace the existing Atco trailer wing…

I just spend a couple of days at Baldface Lodge following abstract artist Jeremy Down around the mountains while he crafts his unique style of…