Whether you arrive in Nain by plane or by boat, it only takes a quick glance to understand that there’s something different about this hamlet on the Labrador Sea. On the rocky shore stands a structure that looks nothing like the uniform rectangles that make up the offices, homes and stores here. Its undulating walls seem to dazzle – the northern lights rendered in weathering wood. Overlooking the swell where, long ago, Inuit hunters paddled their kayaks, this is the Illusuak Cultural Centre.

Designed by Todd Saunders of Saunders Architecture, the centre has already become a hearth around which the 1,125 or so inhabitants of Nain can meet. More broadly, it’s a space built by and for the people of Nunatsiavut, the self-governing...

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