Like many architects, we have begun to pay much closer attention to the embodied carbon associated with the materials we are specifying. All other things being…
Many jobs require, or expect, some form of apprenticeship as a sort of interim between academic training and being fully qualified for the profession. Whether…
In 2014, three competitions organized in parallel by the Montreal Botanical Garden museum and the institution Space for Life resulted in the selection of three…
Chronicling the evolving vision of a site in Muskoka over several decades, The Architecture of Point William: A Laboratory for Living (ORO Editions, 2021) is…
Book by Avi Friedman (Thames & Hudson, 2021)
Pre-Fab Living provides a timely overview of current pre-fabrication technologies through a collection of…
As Canadian cities slipped in and out of lockdowns over the past year, architecture firms have been periodically turning to virtual site visits to limit…
“Show me a wealthy architect,” architect Lloyd Hunt once quipped to his class at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, “and I’ll show you a…
The delicate dance that occurs among collaborators when tackling a design problem is a balance of ideas, communication and ego. Innovation can be sparked with a…
It has been nearly a year since most people have gone into the office. Boxing Day deals were not the same without the crowds, and meeting at the coffee shop is…