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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past eight years, a national, volunteer-led committee of architects, educators, advocates and organizations that regulate the architectural profession in Canada have been hosting conversations ...

Telus Sky’s elegant form lends a distinctive presence to the Calgary skyline. The tower’s pro-forma, or economic equation, is brilliant. Rising up from a low-priced, orphaned triangle of land adjacent ...

Recently, Canadian architects have had deep cause for worry about the fates of three of Toronto’s key modernist monuments: Eberhard Zeidler’s Ontario Place, and Raymond Moriyama’s Japanese Canadian ...

The 7.7-acre site formerly housed The Globe and Mail’s facility, and is located in the midst of the densifying King West area. To the south, it adjoins the future Rail Deck District, a five-tower ...

In 1881, the newly opened Royal Hotel was a striking presence in Picton, the centre of Loyalist-settled Prince Edward County near Kingston, Ontario. It included a grand staircase leading to spacious ...

Following the integration of the former TSX-listed IBI Group Inc., things are going well for Dutch-owned Arcadis and its US-based design arm CallisonRTKL, after Arcadis acquired IBI last fall.