Projects

Project Liyuan Library, Jiaojiehe, ChinaArchitect Atelier Li XiaodongText and Photos Li XiaodongThis project is a modest addition to the small village of…

Architect Li Xiaodong has won the $100,000 award—one of the largest architectural prizes in the world—for a project that cost a little under twice that amount…

Project Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba Architects Design Architect—Antoine Predock; Executive Architect—Architecture49 Inc. (formerly…

Project Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy, Toronto, OntarioArchitect Kohn Shnier Architects Text Terri PetersPhotos Tom ArbanThere is a cardboard cutout…

Text Pamela YoungArchitectural timelines tend to be more Galápagos tortoise than mayfly: design teams generally spend months or years developing projects…

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects Contributions by George Baird, Thomas Fisher, Mark Kingwell and Mirko Zardini. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2013.…

I am deeply saddened to mark the loss of colleague Sue Williamson. Sue had been the graphic designer for Canadian Architect for over 20 years. She passed away…

University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Leslie Van Duzer, DirectorThe University of British Columbia School of…

Canada’s architecture schools—including in Toronto, Sudbury, Waterloo, Vancouver, and Saskatoon—are in an unprecedented phase of growth and change.

Canada’s schools of architecture continue to take on the challenges posed by new design and fabrication technologies.

Text Grant WanzelMany Canadian architecture schools offer students the opportunity to study overseas—but Dalhousie University is unique in having helped…

A Modernist church in Quebec City now houses a bustling library under its distinctive billowing roof.