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Becoming Architects Canada launches as an advocacy group
Becoming Architects Canada / Devenir Architect Canada is a new non-profit advocacy group for interns, others on the path to architectural licensure, and recent licensees, created by former RAIC Emerging Practitioners and CASA members.
While this group was officially launched in April 2021, their journey began more than six years ago when intern…
ZAS Unveils a Wood-Based, Net Zero Carbon design for TRCA’s new headquarters
ZAS Architects, in a joint venture with Bucholz McEvoy Architects, designed the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s (TRCA) new headquarters. Sitting adjacent…
OAA Launches New Web Resource for Calculating Total Energy Use Intensity
The OAA is launching a new online tool to allow its members and the public to measure the Total Energy Use Intensity (TEUI) of a building.
Initiated in 2020…
Gow Hastings Architects selected to design Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation…
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital’s Bloorview Research Institute (BRI) kicked off construction on the final phase of its largest research expansion in…
Nominees Announced for the 2021 National Magazine Awards: B2B
The National Media Awards Foundation has announced the nominees of the third annual National Magazine Awards: B2B. This year, Canadian Architect has been shortlisted…
Eleonore Leclerc Named Female Frontier’s Emerging Architect of the Year
Eleonore Leclerc, architect and design principal at Stantec, has been selected as Emerging Architect of the Year by the Female Frontier Awards: Powered by World…
Polygon Gallery receives a 2021 AIA Award for Architecture
Patkau Architects has received a 2021 AIA Architecture Award for the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver. The project is the new home for an independent photography…
SR&ED tax credits for construction
The Canadian construction industry is turning problem solving into profit...
THE LAD Series: Where Power Assist meets Soft-Close
Our LAD Assist Damper Series features Sugatsune's patented Lapcon technology with a spring mechanism that assists in lifting and soft-closing panels to eliminate lids...
PAC-CLAD Perforated Aluminum Panels: Architectural Flair with Practical Applications
Perforated metal panels create a myriad of effects: adding visual texture to a sidewalk screen, transforming a parking garage screen into art, overlaying a...
Planning key for electric car charging stations
Electrical contractors help to ensure installation safe and effective...
Accessible Design Boosts Principles and Aesthetics
Consumer demand for accessible spaces has grown substantially in recent years. At first, the demand was driven largely by legislation like the Canadians with...
Applying Neuroscience to the Architectural Features of Masonic Temples
Join Square & Compass in speaking with Prof. Andrea de Paiva, founder of NeuroAU & Professor of Neurology/Built Spaces....
IDEAS
RAIC President’s Medal for Multimedia Representations of Architecture…
EDITORS Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey
CHAPTER AUTHORS George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Hénault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell, Sherry McKay, Marco Polo, Colin Ripley, Lola Sheppard, David Theodore,…
PROJECTS
Rural Retreat: Hinterhouse, La Conception, Quebec
If God is said to be in the details, then Ménard Dworkind Architecture & Design has lavished their concept for a cabin retreat with blessings. On first glance, Hinterhouse—a modernist, nature-adjacent answer to Airbnb—may look like a simple rectangular box, and it is. But zoom in and you’ll discover details, treatments and storage solutions…
Friends of Ruby Home, Toronto, Ontario
To write about a building you cannot visit is a daunting task. When I took on this assignment amid a global pandemic and in an emergency stay-at-home order in…
Attached to the Detached: South House, Mississauga, Ontario
PROJECT South House, Mississauga, Ontario
ARCHITECT Giaimo
PHOTOS doublespace photography
As you travel down Third Street in Lakeview, Mississauga—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…
Vancouver Public Library Roof Garden, British Columbia
A new roof garden has been announced to open at the Vancouver Central Library over two decades after its completion. The joint venture architectural team of…
High Park Residence, Toronto, Ontario
Batay-Csorba Architects pays homage to Toronto’s traditional homes, and the Italian heritage of its clients, with a three-story dwelling. Built for a retired…
SoLo House, British Columbia
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…
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