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Architecture has traditionally been a profession of generalists, but can offer fulfilling opportunities for those who choose to specialize.  This was the…

PROJECT Old Crow Community Centre, Old Crow, Yukon  ARCHITECT Kobayashi + Zedda Architects  TEXT Adele Weder  PHOTOS Andrew Latreille  Arriving…

PROJECT Bombardier Global Manufacturing Centre, Toronto Pearson Airport, Mississauga, Ontario ARCHITECT NEUF architect(e)s TEXT Ian Chodikoff…

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…

PROJECT Les Pavillons du 49° apartment building, Chibougamau, Quebec ARCHITECT PERCH architecture INTERVIEW BY Marco Marini PHOTOS Ulysse Lemerise,…

A look at the latest mass timber innovations by Michael Green Architecture, Moriyama Teshima Architects, Acton Ostry Architects, and Intelligent City.

A design-build firm crafts a parkside restaurant inspired by Victorian-era conservatories.

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 2013, architect Michael Green recorded a TED talk entitled “Why We Should Build Wooden Skyscrapers.” To date, it’s been viewed more than 1.3 million times…

ARCHITECTS Lemay / Atelier 21 PHOTOS Stéphane Groleau Since its grand opening on January 16, 1971, the Grand Théâtre de Québec has been a prized cultural…

Like many architects, we have begun to pay much closer attention to the embodied carbon associated with the materials we are specifying. All other things being…

It has been nearly a year since most people have gone into the office. Boxing Day deals were not the same without the crowds, and meeting at the coffee shop is…

Any infection control strategy can be compared to Swiss cheese. A single strategy is like a single barrier, full of holes. A number of slices of defences…

As part of pandemic control measures, museums and galleries in many parts of Canada have been closed, partially opened, and closed again over the past year.…

TEXT Eric A. Charron and Randy Van Straaten Heritage masonry buildings make up a large portion of Canada’s urban structures—from the historic warehouses in…

High-rise living in multi-unit residential buildings is, historically speaking, a relatively recent development. Traditional housing typologies—including…