Ideas

Sometimes a building isn’t just a building. Occasionally, a building invites you to interact with it, injecting a moment of levity in your visit to a museum,…

This essay was one of the winners of a 2019 RAIC International Prize Scholarship Lucie Palombi’s essay adopts the form of a letter to Le Corbusier. She…

This essay was one of the winners of a 2019 RAIC International Prize Scholarship Laure Nolte recounts “uncomfortable” visits with her mother in a long-term…

This essay was one of the winners of a 2019 RAIC International Prize Scholarship. In an essay about his childhood in Nigeria, Odudu Umoessien writes about…

This essay received a Certificate of High Merit in the 2019 RAIC International Prize Scholarship competition Amal Dirie's essay focuses on the temporary…

One of the perks of being the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) president is visiting many of this year’s graduates who will be the future of the…

Ever since initial renderings of a proposed addition to Ottawa's Chateau Laurier were released in 2016, there has been public outcry against the modernist…

What is on the minds of architects in different regions of Canada? To find out, Canadian Architect spoke to dozens of architects from coast to coast—to coast.

The Indigenous population is Canada’s fastest growing demographic, with some 1.6 million Indigenous people in the 2016 census, and an anticipated growth to over…

The postcard view of Canada’s Atlantic coast is dotted with small, colourful clapboard houses sitting by the ocean. But in some parts of the Atlantic, that’s…

“It’s busier than I’ve ever seen it,” says Gavin Affleck of Montreal’s Affleck de la Riva architects, who has practiced for 30 years. “Students and graduates…

Procurement is a big issue for architects across the country, including for Ontario architects who work in the institutional sector. Public- private…