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Canada’s older adult population increased by nearly one million people over the last five years and is projected to grow exponentially more in the coming…

Architects, landscape architects and urban planners are influential brokers to facilitate change in the built environment, yet we rely upon experts and…

As we head towards the winter, many offices are settling into new patterns of work—some maintaining hybrid work options established during the pandemic, some…

REVIEW Christian Maidankine Since taking over On Site Review in 2015, the designers, academics, practitioners, and journalists that make up The Site…

TEXT AND IMAGES Sami Kazemi To say that I created the above images may not be entirely accurate. Perhaps it’s more appropriate to say that I…

TEXT Peter Sealy PHOTO Thomas Demand A blue blanket, white sheet, and two wrinkled pillows cover a bed in the corner of a room lit by a single, wall-mounted…

There’s a quiet tension that often comes from getting a bunch of candidates together for a site meeting during a Request for Proposals. Competing architects,…

By Olivier Vallerand (McGill – Queens University Press, 2020) REVIEW Maya Orzechowska “Gender and sexuality’s influence on the design and use of a space are…

“Something akin to a miracle….” This is how John Fraser, Master Emeritus of Massey College describes his former institution, designed by Ron Thom in the early…

Any practice that's gone through the B Corp process will understand the joy (and immense relief) when their certification is confirmed. As a framework to…

The winners of the 2022 AIA Gold Medal, the organization’s top award, are Angela Brooks, FAIA and Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, co-founders of the Hawthorne,…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2022 report focuses on the impacts of climate change, and the capacities of natural and human systems to…