Ideas

Long before LEED became an industry buzzword, Peter Busby was figuring out how to make buildings that consumed fewer resources.

In New York, Vancouver and Saskatoon, architects are taking on a triple-bottom-line strategy, producing buildings and public spaces with economic, environmental…

David Stouck’s biography of renowned local architect Arthur Erickson is the winner of the second annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book…

Architecture of Saskatchewan, A Visual Journey 1930-2011 by Bernard Flaman is this year’s winner of the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the Center…

The $100,000 Moriyama RAIC International Prize has far-reaching aspirations.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander will be in Toronto with author Susan Herrington on May 3, 2014 to sign copies of the recent publication Making the Modern Landscape.…

A new publication by Christopher Armstrong, professor emeritus of history at York University entitled Making Toronto Modern: Architecture and Design…

The ability to think at multiple scales--responding to both regional and local realities--will be key in generating an effective vision for the North.

The handsome adaptive reuse of a Carnegie library in Dundas, Ontario exemplifies the proactive use of project planning expertise by Perkins+Will.

Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport is the site of contentious debate over the future of Toronto’s waterfront.

Last year, I got a jump on a New Year’s resolution. About four months ago, I bought a treadmill desk. Most of the text in the current issue—as well as the…

The alternatives to succession planning are stark: the death of a firm with the retirement of its founder, its buy-out by a larger conglomerate, or the…