How the City of Calgary is incentivizing the conversion of office towers into…
A City of Calgary program incentivizes the conversion of office towers into residences.
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Benchmark 2023 design competition winner announced
Storefront Manitoba and the Winnipeg Trails Association have announced Winnipeg furniture designer Thom Fougere, currently based in Montreal, as the winner of…
Editorial: Growing Up Fast
Toronto is the fastest-growing city in the developed world—a fact evidenced by real estate prices that remain well beyond affordability thresholds despite…
Housing Multitudes
At a recent exhibition, a pastel-toned panorama filled the long front wall of the gallery at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of…
Why Immigrants Answer When Edmonton’s Suburbs Call
Canada’s population is expected to grow significantly within the next few decades – an increase of 38.2 to 52.5 million from 2021 to 2043. Alberta alone…
Perkins&Will Vancouver Reimagines Waterfront Station in speculative project
The re-imagining of the Waterfront Station precinct, in downtown Vancouver, blends the seamless integration of existing and future transit modes with the…
Architects respond to Ontario’s Bill 23
On Friday, over a dozen of Ontario’s most prominent architectural firms issued an open letter to Premier Ford and Minister Clark in response to Ontario’s Bill…
Environmental organizations call for amendments to Bill 23
The David Suzuki Foundation and The Atmospheric Fund are among organizations calling for the government to amend the More Homes Built Faster Act,…
Planning Regime Shake-up: What Bill 23 means for you
On October 25, 2022, the Province of Ontario (the Province) introduced Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23). Bill 23 is the next…
Recalibrating Infrastructure and Ecologies: Port Lands, Toronto, Ontario
TEXT Shannon Bassett
PHOTOS Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker
Something big is happening east of downtown Toronto. The Don River runs through one of Toronto’s…
Urban is Everywhere
Given that 67.5% of all Canadians, or 23 million people, live in the suburbs, cities and those who plan, design, and invest in them, are exploring a myriad of…
SvN launches online talks June 1 addressing city building and climate change
SvN Architects + Planners (SvN) is launching a LinkedIn Live Series dubbed SvN Speaks on June 1, 2022. Hosted by various practice leaders at the firm, each…
WorldGBC launches a programme to advance circular built environments
World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and its network of over 70 Green Building Councils are launching Circularity Accelerator — a global programme to…
The Bentway announces winners of Waterfront ReConnect design competition
The Bentway, in partnership with the City of Toronto, Waterfront BIA, and Toronto Downtown West BIA, has announced the winners of the national Waterfront…
Waterfront Toronto names new partners for land Sidewalk Labs intended to build on
TORONTO — Waterfront Toronto has named two companies that will develop a swath of lakeside land a Google affiliate once hoped to turn into a high-tech…
Urbanarium announces winners of The Mixing Middle competition
Winners of The Mixing Middle competition, presented by the Vancouver Urbanarium Society, have been announced. The group launched the competition to generate…