New Building Material Exchange program launches on Vancouver Island
BMEx helps connect construction, manufacturing, and design professionals through resource sharing to reduce landfill waste.
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Crafting Architecture: Inside the studios of Patkau Design Lab, Omer Arbel, and…
Fabrication is a core part of architectural practice for three firms in Western Canada.
2024 RAIC Research & Innovation Award: Patkau Design Lab
WINNER OF THE 2024 RAIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AWARD Patkau Design Lab is the research and fabrication wing of Patkau Architects. More than simply a…
Brock researcher says giant bamboo may be future of sustainable construction
Mofidi is recognized internationally for rehabilitating existing concrete structures.
Ottawa to launch pre-approved home design catalogue, bring back post-war effort
The federal government intends to resurrect a post-war effort to ramp up housing construction across Canada, but with a 21st-century twist.
A consultation…
Spreading the Wood: Three projects that are leading the way in Canadian mass…
A look at the latest mass timber innovations by Michael Green Architecture, Moriyama Teshima Architects, Acton Ostry Architects, and Intelligent City.
Good Citizen: Park by Sidewalk Citizen, Calgary, Alberta
A design-build firm crafts a parkside restaurant inspired by Victorian-era conservatories.
Shell Game: Focal on Third, Vancouver, BC
An expressive structure raises the bar for spec office buildings in Vancouver.
BC firms launch new report on wood use in K-12 schools
A new report on the use of wood in the design and construction of kindergarten to grade 12 schools has just been released. The report, titled Wood Use in…
Eleven Building Projects Receive Copper Architecture Award
The North American Copper in Architecture Awards program recognizes excellent uses of copper in educational, religious, and government buildings .
City of Edmonton velodrome and community centre breaks ground
The construction phase of the Coronation Park Sports and Recreation Centre is underway following the City of Edmonton’s approval of the $153 million budget in…
DIALOG files for patent of hybrid timber floor system
DIALOG has officially filed for the patent of its Hybrid Timber Floor System (HTFS), a zero carbon prototype that received an award for Fast Company’s “2021…
Intelligent City opens automated urban housing factory
Intelligent City, the sister company to Vancouver architecture firm LWPAC, has begun building net-zero, mass timber urban housing projects in a newly opened…
Making an Entrance: Bamboo Bamboo, Yangshuo, Guilin, China
PROJECT Bamboo Bamboo, Yangshuo, Guilin, China
DESIGNER llLab
PHOTOS arch-exist photography
As frequent concertgoers know, you’ve scored a double bang for…
Resilient to the Bones
As a child, Anishinaabe/French artist Caroline Monnet watched her parents renovate old cottages into homes. The powerful act of transforming raw construction…
Hope scrapes the sky
Over the past year, DIALOG have been designing a prototype for a supertall zero-carbon hybrid timber tower; we’re calling it the Beacon of Hope. At 105 stories,…