Ideas

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…

There are important lessons to be learned from the immediate crisis on our doorstep that can help us deal with the much greater crisis looming on the…

When lockdowns and stay-at-home orders began to respond to Covid-19, so did questions of when things can “return to normal”. This line of questioning…

It is difficult to overstate the burden of COVID-19. Right after you hit hyperbole, you hit reality. It has shuttered our institutions and our professional…

Because of our creative nature, those in the design industry are accustomed to a certain level of ambiguity. Designers actually seek out situations that…

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a few construction sites in Canada are ramping up: those that expand the capacity of the healthcare system. The…

Canadian-based Nucap Industries and Farrow Partners has developed a state-of-the-art CLT building block that can be rapidly assembled into temporary…