North American winners of 2011 Holcim Awards competition announced
Last week in Washington, DC, the North American winners of 2011 Holcim Awards competition were announced, where it became clearly apparent that…
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Paris-based architect Edouard Francois lectures at the National Gallery of Canada
Part of Carleton University's Forum lecture series, French architect Edouard François delivers a lecture on Monday, October 24 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at…
Winners and finalists of the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards revealed
The winners of the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards were announced last week at the US Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference and…
Greenbuild NEXT International Conference and Expo on now in Toronto
Greenbuild NEXT is the first time the US Green Building Council is hosting Greenbuild outside the United States. Greenbuild 2011, on now in Toronto until…
Matthias Sauerbruch takes the stage at IIDEX/NeoCon 2011 tomorrow
Currently underway until Saturday, September 24, 2011 at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto, IIDEX/NeoCon Canada features an exciting lineup of keynote…
The Okanagan College Centre of Excellence sets sights on the Living Building…
Imagine an educational facility that is as much a teacher as the instructors standing at the front of its classrooms; a building powered by the resources of its…
Vancouver-based Contexture Design awarded Western Living’s 2011 Eco Designer…
Vancouver-based industrial designers and co-founders of Contexture Design - Trevor Coghill and Nathan Lee - are the recent recipients of Western Living's…
Green Infrastructure: The Effects of Urban Rail Transit on Air Quality
Alex Whalley, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Merced, delivers a lecture on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 from 11:00am to 12:00 noon…
JCI Architects to design sustainable city in Bangladesh
JCI Architects Inc. (with JET Architecture, Terraplan Landscape Architects and Ecovert sustainability consultants) have been commissioned to design a new…
2030 Challenge website features Canadian projects
Architecture Canada | RAIC is hosting a website to highlight projects that meet and exceed the 2030 Challenges. Visit and see how the first two projects…
Inclusive Imagining – The Community as Eco-Project: Dibdo Francis Kr in…
The public is invited to attend an evening of presentations and discussion at the MaRS Centre Auditorium, located at 101 College Street in Toronto. As the final…
sustainable.TO Architecture + Building takes top prize in international Passive…
Canadian firm sustainable.TO Architecture + Building has taken the top prize in an international competition to design a passive house for New Orleans.…