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In a compact new book, former Smith Carter Principal and C.O.O. Rick Linley describes a simple method for understanding the financials of any architecture…

Our built spaces have a significant impact on climate change – in fact, the building and construction industry is responsible for nearly 40% of global…

We have less than 10 years to make real progress to stay within 1.5 degrees of global warming. Given that buildings are responsible for almost 40% of global…

Architects and planners must decarbonize the construction industry, and we have less than ten years to make real progress to stay within 1.5 degrees of global…

Greta Thunberg often talks about how "our house is on fire" when referencing the global climate crisis and the precariousness of our planet. Taking inspiration…

The demand for lab space and science workplaces is skyrocketing in almost every market, increasing competition among science building developers. The…

In late June, we sat down with Canadian-born, L.A.-based architect Frank Gehry. Gehry was back in his hometown, Toronto, for the launch of Forma, a pair of…

If there was any doubt as to the role the built environment plays in safeguarding public health, it’s surely been erased by now. Over the last two years,…

Toronto’s Yonge Dundas Square is usually a canyon of advertising. But in a commission for this June’s Luminato festival, photographer Ed Burtynsky…

The OAA Conference returned in person for the first time in two years, kicking off Wednesday, May 11th with a keynote panel discussing this year’s theme:…

In 2020, I led a studio at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design that asked: How can we halve the carbon…

In architecture competitions, the runner-up scheme is sometimes the most interesting one. That’s the case in the recent Re-imagining Railways design…