Urban Wetland in heart of Adelaide wins Australian sustainability award
Designed by Australian landscape architecture and urban practice firm TCL, Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens Wetland has won the 2017 Sustainability Award for…
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Diamond Schmitt’s Hatch Centre opens at McMaster
The expansion of Hamilton's McMaster University has continued this year, and the school's growth was recently marked by the opening of the Gerald Hatch Centre…
Canadian design wins big at LafargeHolcim sustainability awards
Last week, designers, architects, and engineers from across North America gathered in Chicago to celebrate the best of sustainable design across the continent…
TimberFever competition explores design possibilities of wood
In partnership with Moses Structural Engineers, Ryerson University recently hosted TimberFever – an intense design and construction competition. Taking…
Over 20,000 Green Buildings Now Registered On B.C. Map
British Columbia's green building industry is growing by leaps and bounds. On August 21st, the non-profit Pembina Institute released a comprehensive update to…
Indigenous Housing Competition Invites New Architectural Visions
Striving to raise awareness of Indigenous Housing issues across the country, Architects Without Borders Canada (AWB) is now accepting proposals for the…
McCallumSather and B+H Design for Net Zero Performance at Mohawk College
The new Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation at Mohawk College’s Fennel Campus in Hamilton, Ontario, will be one of the region’s first net zero energy…
Perkins+Will project first in world to achieve LEED and WELL Platinum
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) headquarters office is the first space in the world to achieve both Platinum Level Certification for the…
Canadian Architect editor Elsa Lam speaks on CBC Ideas
Canadian Architect editor Elsa Lam recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by Paul Kennedy of CBC Ideas. The discussion, titled "Building…
Canadian projects chosen for CaGBC’s Zero Carbon Building Pilot Program
The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) has announced that 16 Canadian projects have been chosen to participate in a two-year pilot of CaGBC’s Zero Carbon…
RAIC joins architects worldwide in support of AIA’s declaration on Paris…
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) has joined with architects around the world in supporting the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA)…
NRC research aims to factor climate resilience into design of future buildings in…
Canadian buildings and infrastructure are being more and more challenged by the impacts of climate change and an increase in extreme weather events such as…