Ideas

The spaces we design have order and understanding: plans, elevations, a parti. The spaces we inhabit contain things we recognize: named objects that give…

In the summer of 2004, I curated a small exhibition at Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery that coincided with the 40th anniversary of its construction. Character…

Think beyond “educating the client” to build transformational relationships

Looking back on five decades of architectural hopes, triumphs and signs of our times.

Marking the 50th anniversary of our annual Awards of Excellence, we look back at the esteemed jurists that helped shape our awards program into what it is…

While we celebrate the 50th birthday of our Canadian Architect awards, we also would like to laud another major award just announced elsewhere in the design…

A move to add nearly 100 Toronto buildings to the city's heritage registry list amid letters of objection — including from one owner who says his building is a…

Yale University scholar Vincent Scully, a revered architecture historian and professor who inspired generations of students ranging from David McCullough to…

The inaugural EDIT festival imagines a perfect world—or at least a sustainable one.

When Fuji Kindergarten in Tokyo was awarded the Moriyama RAIC International Prize in September, it marked an affirmation of the building’s innate ability to…

Canada’s history is an urban history—as well as a modern one—whose roots began towards the end of the nineteenth century, when the transcontinental Canadian…

Looking back at the Centennial as the Sesquicentenial ends.