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PROJECT Gastown Child Care Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia ARCHITECT Acton Ostry Architects TEXT Adele Weder PHOTOS Michael Elkan Photography Let’s…

PROJECT Clayton Community Centre, Surrey, British Columbia ARCHITECT hcma Architecture + Design TEXT Jim Sutherland PHOTOS doublespace photography, unless…

PROJECT Ken Soble Tower, Hamilton, Ontario ARCHITECT ERA Architects Inc. As the effects of the climate crisis take hold, it is increasingly clear that to be…

Book by Avi Friedman (Thames & Hudson, 2021) Pre-Fab Living provides a timely overview of current pre-fabrication technologies through a collection of…

“Show me a wealthy architect,” architect Lloyd Hunt once quipped to his class at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, “and I’ll show you a…

A timber-framed ice rink is a vibrant meeting place for a dozen communities in Central BC.

TEXT Ya’el Santopinto and Graeme Stewart, ERA Architects / The Tower Renewal Partnership As Canada sets out on the path toward COVID-19 recovery, retrofits…

Next Monday, April 22, is the 49th annual Earth Day. With climate change’s accelerating pace, we have all the more reasons to pay head to the environment’s…

British Columbia (UNBC) has a public mandate to be a leader in high-performing buildings and innovative wood projects. Working with UNBC, our design team at…

The Province of BC and Integral Group have launched a new incentive program and juried competition called Better Buildings BC: The Net Zero Energy Ready…

Passive House Canada will offer an intensive course on design and construction in Winnipeg at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, from November…

Across Canada, provincial and municipal levels of government are also raising performance requirements and establishing roadmaps for reaching Net Zero energy…

Ever since the first OPEC oil crisis of the early 1970s, I have been fascinated by the concept of the “urban farmhouse”—an urban yet off-grid, self-sufficient…

Recounting the trials — and joys — of building a Canadian home that meets the "Passivhaus" standard.

WINNER OF A 2016 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S MEDAL IN ARCHITECTURE