In the October issue, Canadian Architect published the winners of the RAIC’s annual awards, including Emerging Architectural Practice winner UUfie. While this…
I am encouraged to see so many architects signing the Architects Declare statement, and your ongoing coverage of the climate change emergency. It has inspired…
Climate change has emerged as a critical issue, and yet Canada’s politicians (of all stripes) are ignoring the easiest, the fastest, the least expensive and…
The Chicago Architecture Biennial challenges the profession’s entanglement with neoliberal economics, and its accompanying social and environmental ills.
TEXT AND DIAGRAMS J. David Bowick
The most novel architectural material in Canada right now is an old one—wood. But when made into mass timber beams and…
More than a century ago, Nikola Tesla fought with Thomas Edison about whose hydro-electric power technology would be adopted—Tesla’s alternating current (AC) or…
Richard Johnson began looking at his own city with a new set of eyes when he and his partner moved to a 47th floor condo near Union Station. From there, he…
Book by AnnaLisa Meyboom with drawings by Lörinc Vass (Routledge, 2018)
Review by Adele Weder
There was a time when “manual driving” denoted the heady…
Location Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect Number TEN Architectural Group
Opened in 1970, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (RMTC) was designed by Winnipeg firm…
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…