The sky on that Friday morning last August was a bright, bright yellow. I went outside to find my neighbours milling about on their driveways and pointing…
Pergola Garden, officially unveiled last May, is a device for contemplating the age-old struggle between man and nature. Commissioned by Richmond’s public art…
ARCHITECT Rhone & Iredale Architects
TEXT D’Arcy Jones
In 1965, Vancouver was a frontier town in ways that seem far-fetched today. That year, BC Hydro…
The infrastructure required to process water—both as it enters our cities and homes, and returns to our lakes and streams—is vital to our everyday lives, and…
Last August, a new tourist attraction opened in Malahat First Nation, just north of Victoria, BC. The Malahat SkyWalk is a 600-metre walkway that spirals up…
PROJECT Pearl Block, Victoria, British Columbia
ARCHITECT D’Arcy Jones Architects
TEXT Paul Koopman
PHOTOS Ema Peter Photography
A four-storey rowhouse…
PROJECT Grosvenor Ambleside, West Vancouver, BC
ARCHITECT James K.M. Cheng Architects
TEXT Sean Ruthen
Discussions of the “missing middle” often focus on…
The Williams Lake First Nation government administration building is a dynamic two-storey hybrid mass timber facility located in the central interior of British…
The Canadian Wood Council’s Wood WORKS! BC program recognizes excellence in contemporary design and building with wood in Vancouver at the virtual 16th Wood…
Sara Jacobs, an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia, has received a Graham Foundation grant for her project…
Sitting lightly upon a forested knoll overlooking the Soo Valley in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, Perkins and Will’s performance-led project is not a…
Two Canadian architecture firms—HCMA Architecture + Design and PHAEDRUS Studio—have received American Institute of Architects (AIA) International Region Awards,…
Located in Vancouver’s Killarney neighborhood, Johnston Davidson Architecture (JDA)’s Vancouver Fire Hall No. 5 is the city’s first fire hall collocated with…
As of November 26, 2020, the Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC) is officially part of the Ministry of Attorney General. The change was…