Ideas

“Something akin to a miracle….” This is how John Fraser, Master Emeritus of Massey College describes his former institution, designed by Ron Thom in the early…

Any practice that's gone through the B Corp process will understand the joy (and immense relief) when their certification is confirmed. As a framework to…

The winners of the 2022 AIA Gold Medal, the organization’s top award, are Angela Brooks, FAIA and Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, co-founders of the Hawthorne,…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2022 report focuses on the impacts of climate change, and the capacities of natural and human systems to…

INTERVIEW WITH Darryl Condon and Lisa Landrum Since 2016, a task force of Canadian architects and educators has been mobilizing conversations on the future of…

TEXT Max Amerongen PHOTOS Courtesy Butterwick Projects There’s a lane in Sundance Housing Co-op that provides a perfect “before” and “after” picture for…

TEXT Shannon Bassett PHOTOS Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker Something big is happening east of downtown Toronto. The Don River runs through one of Toronto’s…

Most industry embodied carbon targets and benchmarks focus on architectural building materials, without considering the embodied carbon impact of mechanical,…

Beyond the Divide—A Century of Canadian Mosque Design By Tammy Gaber (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022) REVIEW Roberto Chiotti Beyond the Divide: A…

Context and Content: The Memoir of a Fortunate Architect By A.J. Diamond (Dundurn Press, 2022) REVIEW Stefan Novakovic In the opening chapter of his…

From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities By Alison Sant (Island Press, 2022) REVIEW Anne Lissett As the climate crisis worsens, and we…

Ice is elemental. As crystallized water, it might be seen as a building block of life. But it can be a literal building block too: witness the Warming Huts…