Winning projects celebrated at BC Wood Design Awards
Inspired architecture and innovative structural engineering using wood in a remarkable diversity of building types, sizes and purposes were in the spotlight…
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Arata Isozaki receives the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Arata Isozaki, distinguished Japanese architect, city planner and theorist, has been selected as the 2019 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award…
Diamond Schmitt wins Civic Trust Award for National Arts Centre
The Civic Trust Awards in the UK has presented Diamond Schmitt Architects with a Commendation Award for the National Arts Centre rejuvenation in Ottawa. The…
IDC seeks ideas and participants for 2019 Design Symposium
The Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) are inviting designers to participate in this year’s IDC Design Symposium, which will be held in Vancouver on September…
Sidewalk Labs unveils heated walkways and building raincoats for Quayside
Sidewalk Labs offered a glimpse at a handful of high-tech prototypes it hopes to launch in a waterfront smart city it has proposed for Toronto on Friday.…
Policy makers eye data frameworks amid Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside project
As a proposal to build a high tech neighbourhood on Toronto’s waterfront slowly progresses, policy-makers from the municipal and provincial governments are…
Designing Safe Spaces: DXTalks in Toronto on March 5
On Tuesday, March 5, ahead of International Women’s Day, (Design Exchange) DX hosts an important and insightful DXTalks conversation with architect Janna Levitt…
Living Architecture Symposium comes to Toronto March 1-3
The Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) is celebrating the halfway mark of its multi-year SSHRC Partnership Grant with a Symposium from March 1-3, 2019 at…
CAAJ hosts student design competition for ‘The Modern Police Station’
In the context of social unrest, violent protests, easy access to guns, the decanting of mental health services and the legalization of marijuana, society’s…
First Class Parcel: Idea Exchange Old Post Office, Cambridge, Ontario
A riverfront post office in a mid-sized Ontario city is sensitively remade into Canada's first bookless library.
55% of Torontonians support Sidewalk’s Quayside project: Environics
Despite months of negative headlines about an apparent wave of public opposition against Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs-Waterfront Toronto partnership, a new…
Fire deaths could prompt new safety measures, upgraded building code: experts
Experts say the deaths of the seven Barho children in a ferocious Halifax house fire last week could lead to new fire safety measures and changes to the…
DIALOG launches youth architecture camp in Edmonton
Two things are not happening in Edmonton that put us at a disadvantage when designing our city. First, there’s very little —if any— exposure to architecture as…
March 1 deadline nears for Prix de Rome and J.B.C. Watkins Award
The Canada Council for the Arts is now accepting submissions for the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture, as well as the J.B.C. Watkins Award. Entries for…
Diamond Schmitt and Abbott Brown complete Dartmouth’s Zatzman Sportsplex
The newly named Zatzman Sportsplex has opened in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. A $28-million renovation and expansion designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and…
Heritage Toronto releases 2019 State of Heritage Report
Hot off the presses, Heritage Toronto is pleased to announce the release of the State of Heritage Report today, following a year of research, consultations, and…