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Transforming Space

Architect Philip Beesley unpacks the science behind his current Royal Ontario Museum exhibition.

I went for the Art, for a vague sense of the “hip-cool” countercultural presence there. The sun rises over a cold and dusty Playa … we are riding hard against the wind, which kicks up the ever present dust, and…

Finding Our Place in the Field

Among the many celebrations and inaugurations at May’s RAIC Festival of Architecture in Saint John, New Brunswick, one event stands out to me as particularly special: the official launch of the Atlantic chapter of Building Equality in Architecture (BEA). The…

Elevated outdoor "found space" constructed around the British Pavilion. Photo by Philip Heckhausen.

The Anglo-Canoids At Venice

Two of the most astonishing installations at the current Venice Biennale are by Canadian architects who most Canadian architects have never heard of. Born and educated in Canada, and with only the rare evidence of a round British vowel to…

Italy’s Rogue Utopians

Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966–1976 exhibits at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal until October 7. The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) welcomes visitors to its current exhibition, Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966-1976, with Remo Buti’s Piatti di Architettura (1962-1975), a…