Submissions are now being accepted for the 2027 National Urban Design Awards, which recognize projects, professionals and ...

Over the past decade, engineered mass timber has evolved from a new and innovative choice of structural material to becoming almost mainstream. Canadian architects have played a major role in the ...

As architects, designers and city builders, we spend our days thinking about the systems that make cities work: how a tree canopy cools a sidewalk; how a cycling route can be safe and continuous; how ...

Transforming Birthspace: A Global Colloquium, held at OCAD University in late October, brought together architects, designers, artists, midwives, doctors, doulas and health-care researchers from ...

The Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre (completed by DIALOG, in collaboration with Stantec) provides valuable precedents for the design of other cancer centres. The radiation treatment ...

In collaboration with Circular Construction Canada (CCC), Canadian Standards Association (CSA Group) is driving an initiative to help transition Canada’s construction sector from a linear ...

Like many architects, we have begun to pay much closer attention to the embodied carbon associated with the materials we are specifying. All other things being equal, selecting a material with a lower ...

Construction fences were erected on Friday, June 21 around the perimeter of the Ontario Science Centre, following a provincial announcement of the Centre’s immediate and indefinite closure. Photo by ...

Toronto’s Waterworks development, designed by Diamond Schmitt, is transforming a 1930s masonry utility building into condos, a food hall, and a YMCA. Photo by Joy von Tiedemann Photography, courtesy ...

One of the few lazy diagonals in a hard-working grid-iron city, Edmonton’s Fort Road is well-named. Dating from the 18th century and by far the oldest street in the city, Fort Trail—now renamed to the ...

A still from the Indian Affairs film “We Learn English” includes a modernist school building as a backdrop. Courtesy NFB Writing about modernism in colonial contexts, architectural historian Gwendolyn ...

As the effects of the climate crisis take hold, it is increasingly clear that to be good architecture, buildings must be sustainable. Conversely, even buildings that meet the highest standard of ...