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Winner of a 2024 RAIC Architectural Journalism and Media Award Jim Taggart left architectural practice in 1993 to pursue parallel interests in writing,…

Platform.Middle—Architecture for Housing the 99% By 5468796 Architecture (Arquine, 2024) Winnipeg architecture firm 5468796 is known for…

100 Women: Architects in Practice By Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft (RIBA Publishing, 2024) This sampling of work by…

Manitoba Women in Design By Marieke Gruwel (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, 2024) Manitoba is an important site for the history of women architects…

As It Is: A precarious moment in the life of Ontario Place takes readers on a journey through the landmark site, aiming to capture the essence of the iconic…

Every day brings more news about Canada’s — and the world’s — housing crisis. Large numbers of people of different demographics are moving out of the cities…

The biannual National Urban Design Awards program was established in 2006, through a partnership between the Royal Architectural Institute of…

When North America’s building codes were first drafted in the late 1800s, they had strict measures to prevent the spread of fire—a reaction to…

Toronto architect John van Nostrand’s firm, SvN, has long worked with housing at all scales—from individual cottages, to highrises and masterplans. In doing…

PHOTOS Ziechen Zhou In recent years, housing has returned to prominence as an acute issue for Canadians, rising in salience in our municipal, provincial,…

The sky on that Friday morning last August was a bright, bright yellow. I went outside to find my neighbours milling about on their driveways and pointing…

On June 16, 2023, Canada’s population reached 40 million, a historic milestone for the country. Sixteen weeks later, on October 1, 2023, Statistics Canada…