Ideas

A strategy of charging for initial consultations allows architects to get paid for all of their work—as well as giving clients more confidence in the design…

Community-building synergies are behind a pair of Thier + Curran's recent projects: a social service oriented development in Hamilton, and another in Richmond…

By Joan Grierson with Alex Champlin. Table Rock Press, 2016. University of Toronto teacher and architect William Grierson, one of the partners at Brook…

By Hans Ibelings and PARTISANS. The Architectural Observer, 2016. “Sprawl” has multiple definitions, but my personal favourite was raised by Ellen…

By Marya Cotten Gould, Gregory Henriquez and Robert Enright. Edited by Robert Enright. Blue Imprint, 2016. Unlike a traditional call to action that urges…

Colin Ellard’s Places of the Heart makes a powerful argument for the paramount importance of our daily surroundings.

Beyond Patronage developed out of a symposium hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.

The Prince Edward Island Ark, a 1970s bioshelter, offers lessons for the present in an exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown.

An exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture examines the conflicted relationship between our nation's ideal of nature—and the realities of our…

The recently opened Marine Gateway Complex by Perkins+Will and PCI Developments exemplifies a growing push to create dense, mixed-use communities adjacent to…

The Canadian construction industry is abuzz about a new form of procurement—Integrated Project Delivery—that is based on increased cooperation.

The 2017 Festival of Architecture kicks off Wednesday, May 24 with an opening party at the Canadian War Museum.