Ideas

By Shannon Mattern A visit to Sidewalk Labs’ workshop at 307 Lake Shore Boulevard in Toronto grounds this incisive analysis of the now abandoned Quayside…

By Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample (Canadian Centre for Architecture and Corrani Edizioni, 2019). “At first glance, children’s books seem like the…

By Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and Iván López MunueraPart of The World Around, an online Earth Day summit, this 13-minute film is a…

By Reza Aliabadi (Actar, 2020) In this pocket-sized manifesto, Persian-Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi explores the idea of emptiness as the essence of…

By Léa-Catherine Szacka (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019) Considering the inherent limitations around exhibiting architecture, it is a…

By John Ota (Penguin Random House Canada, 2020) The kitchen—always the most functional room of the house—has become the most socially pertinent room in…

Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming Our society is grappling with the effects of an anthropogenic climate crisis.…

As the world faces one of the worst pandemics in recent memory, we now make conscious, everyday decisions that immediately protect our health. Stories…

Evan Spence is an architect, set designer and humorist based in Calgary. More of his work can be seen at archimatects.com.

Last week, Google-affiliate Sidewalk Labs announced that it was canceling its pursuit to build Quayside, a smart city on Toronto’s waterfront. According to a…

Change is all around us.While some of the change is good, some is threatening to bring a lot of stress into our lives. And I don’t think I need to remind…

How will the Covid-19 pandemic affect the built environment? Will we have to rethink concepts such as urban densification—or will we simply return to “business…