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For the past five decades, Klaus Nienkämper has been a champion of design in Canada. He has continuously collaborated with architects and furniture designers…

For almost 20 years, Toronto artist and designer Kathryn Walter has created feature wall installations in Canada and the United States through collaborations…

Brent Bellamy is an architect and creative director at Number TEN Architectural Group in Winnipeg. He has become a leading advocate for sustainable…

Alex Bozikovic is the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail. In his columns, he mixes reporting and critical analysis to reveal what is happening in the…

The success of Kenneth Borton, MRAIC shows that Canadian architects need not work abroad to produce exciting work, and that a commitment to Winnipeg can lead…

Location Mohawk College, Fennel Campus, Hamilton, Ontario Architect McCallumSather and B+H Architects, architects in joint venture Photos Ema Peter The…

Location Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario Architect Architecture49 and EVOQ Architecture, architects in joint venture The restoration of the West Block, the…

Thank you for shining a light on the enormous blind spot of our industry—embodied energy—in July’s issue of Canadian Architect.  Anthony Pak’s observation that…

Founded in 1989 by Janna Levitt, FRAIC and Dean Goodman, MRAIC, LGA Architectural Partners (formerly known as Levitt Goodman Architects) is a 30-person firm…

Location Vancouver, British Columbia Architect DIALOG Photos Ema Peter The Campus Energy Centre (CEC) is a state-of-the-art hot water facility that…

Thank you for running Anthony Pak’s article on embodied carbon (CA, July 2019). As an industry, we’re catching on to the idea that embodied carbon is…

UUfie is an interdisciplinary research-based architecture studio founded in 2009 in Tokyo, Japan, by partners Irene Gardpoit, MRAIC and Eiri Ota. In 2013,…