Cool Comfort: Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub, Iqaluit, Nunavut
A new health hub promotes culture and healing in an underserved Arctic capital.
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Health + Wellness
Taking Care Through Design: Galt Health, Cambridge, Ontario
A modest family health clinic is designed—and crafted—with a palpable sense of care for patients and clinicians alike.
Emergency Renewal: Renew Sinai – Phase 3A Emergency Department Renovation,…
A Toronto emergency department exemplifies how hospitals can help heal through human-centred design.
Book Review: Constructing Health
Constructing Health
Tye Farrow (University of Toronto Press, 2024) REVIEW Laure Nolte
For a moment, recall a memory of when you felt instantly at…
Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal Expansion opens
Located on Gouin Boulevard in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal (HSCM) was first completed in 1927 and functioned as a…
Reimagining Canada’s long-term care facilities
Canada’s older adult population increased by nearly one million people over the last five years and is projected to grow exponentially more in the coming…
LAAB Collective and Signature Design Communication present Agora Maximus
The Agora Maximus is a pedestrianization project inspired by Montreal’s Quartier Latin, designed by the LAAB collective in collaboration with Signature Design…
Build it and they will come: Bringing small house to the Canadian long-term care…
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,…
Bangladesh hospital wins RIBA International Prize
The RIBA has announced the winner of the world’s best new building. The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh designed by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA will be awarded…
Stantec to design new expansion for Trillium Health Partners’ Queensway site
Stantec has been selected as the prime consultant to provide architectural, interior design, and building and civil engineering services for the new Queensway…