Canadian projects recognized in the 2014 Holcim Awards
The winners of the 2014 Holcim Awards for North America were recently announced in Toronto. The 13 winning projects share in more than USD 300,000 prize…
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Next Big One: International Open Ideas Competition
Next Big One is an international open ideas competition organized by the Architecture for Humanity Vancouver Chapter, and raises awareness of the high-magnitude…
Shigeru Ban receives 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Shigeru Ban will receive the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, according to Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the…
National Trust Conference 2014: Heritage Builds Resilience-Call for Papers
Resilience (noun): (1) elasticity; (2) toughness. Heritage builds resilience by rooting identity and sense of place, acting as a catalyst for economic and…
How did Architects Respond Immediately After 3/11-The Great East Japan Earthquake?
From January 21 to February 9, 2014, the Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal presents the Canadian premiere of…
What Was Will Be
This exhibition at Toronto’s Gallery 44 runs from January 10 to February 15, 2014, and features evocative media installations based on natural disasters…
Surrey Memorial Hospital Critical Care Tower Emergency Department opens
On October 1, 2013, the new Emergency Department at Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) opened for patients. The new ER is the first completed phase of the SMH…
After the Flood and Urban Resilience: makeCalgary International Symposium
Resilience is the ability for a system to recover quickly from unexpected change or misfortune. In the design of resilient communities the challenge is to…
Canadian firms design two out of three winning solutions in the AIA Designing…
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the three winners of its Designing Recovery competition, which was launched this year in collaboration…
AUTOnomous exhibition at Harbourfront Centre
Running from June 24-September 8, 2013. this exhibition at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre concerns, as the title would suggest, the automobile. Asked to…
RAIC Members can help with the flooding situation in Calgary and Southern Alberta
Samuel Oboh, FRAIC, RAIC Regional Director for Alberta & NorthWest Territories, has issued the following statement regarding the current situation in…
Curator Franklin Sirmans lectures at Harbourfront Centre
The Power Plant presents a lecture by Franklin Sirmans, Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County…
Canada Council for the Arts announces its 2012 grants for the Assistance to the…
This program provides grants to Canadian organizations for the public presentation of works in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. The grants…
Core77 Design Awards
After a successful inaugural launch last year, Core77 - the world's first online design resource - is now accepting entries for the Core77 2012 Design Awards.…
USGBC and AIA announce Burtland Granvil as second Architecture for Humanity…
Two years after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, the process of rebuilding has taken another step forward with the selection of Burtland Granvil,…
Design Exchange to host Pecha Kucha Night Toronto for global Pecha Kucha Japan…
The Design Exchange (DX), Canada's National Design Centre and Museum, will be hosting project Pecha Kucha Night Toronto on April 16, 2011 to support…