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Book Review: Platform.Middle—Architecture for Housing the 99%
Platform.Middle—Architecture for Housing the 99%
By 5468796 Architecture (Arquine, 2024) Winnipeg architecture firm 5468796 is known for…
Urban Crossroads: Îlot Rosemont, Montreal, Quebec
PROJECT Îlot Rosemont, Centre de services de l’Office municipal d’habitation de Montréal + Résidence des Ateliers, Montreal, Quebec
ARCHITECT Lapointe…
CMHC announces finalists for Housing Supply Challenge: Building for the Future
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has announced the finalists for the Housing Supply Challenge: Building for the Future.
WorldGBC launches flagship report spotlighting how sustainable and affordable…
Globally, two billion additional homes will be required to be built over the next 75 years. This will only add more pressure within the housing sector,…
McGill presents exhibition Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global…
McGill University is presenting the exhibition Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority in the lobby of the McLennan Library…
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…
Linking Up: Link Apartments, Montreal, Quebec
In the west end of downtown Montreal, an area densely packed with residential highrises, the appearance of a new apartment tower is not usually a…
Architects Against Housing Alienation to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale…
Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) will represent Canada at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, from May 20…
OAA Applauds Province’s Housing Affordability Task Force Report
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) commends the provincial government’s Housing Affordability Task Force for issuing a substantive set of…
Growing Together: GROW, Calgary, Alberta
PROJECT GROW, Calgary, Alberta
ARCHITECT Modern Office of Design + Architecture
PHOTOS Ema Peter
GROW, a striking 20-unit rental apartment development by…
Why Ontario’s housing stock is not meeting today’s multigenerational living…
Over the Covid-19 pandemic, the fragility of “traditional” housing has been exposed. The inability of assisted living and long-term care facilities to protect…
Montgomery Sisam Architects to design new modular supportive housing
The City of Toronto has reemployed Montgomery Sisam Architects, which earlier this year completed affordable housing on two City-owned sites, to design modular…
Twenty + Change: Emerging Talent
It takes courage to launch any business, but starting an architectural practice is especially daunting. Architecture presents many complexities: from finding…
Developing Interests
“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…
Goodbye tristesse! Habitations Saint-Michel Nord, Montreal, Quebec
PROJECT Habitations Saint-Michel Nord, Montreal, Quebec
ARCHITECT Saia Barbarese Topouzanov Architectes
PHOTOS James Brittain
One’s first impression of…