When curator Jean-Louis Cohen introduces journalists to his new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, his enthusiasm bubbles over. Before he…

In the 2018 film The Public, a group of homeless library patrons refuses to leave a downtown public library after closing time. A cold front has hit…

Embodied carbon explained “Embodied carbon” is an imperfect term. The word “embodied” sounds like we’re talking about carbon encapsulated in a material.…

Boundary Sequence Illusion: Ian McDonald, Architect. Edited by Brian Carter (Dalhousie University Press, 2019) An elegant volume on the work of Toronto-based…

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women By Jane Hall (Phaidon, 2019) A few years ago, the conversation about gender equity in architecture centered on the…

University of Toronto: An Architectural Tour (The Campus Guide), 2nd Edition By Larry Wayne Richards (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) Part of a series…

Imagine a Canada where every new building is completely carbon neutral, and our impact on the climate is cut by 25 per cent. The Canadian government aims to be…

I have a confession: the idea I had about a woman’s path from victim to survivor in cases of domestic abuse was all wrong. I thought that seeking emergency…

The 2019 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence jury—Rami Bebawi of KANVA, Joe Lobko of DTAH, and Cindy Wilson of LWPAC/Intelligent City—met at a charged…

In 2004, the cover of the Canadian Architect awards issue featured a drawing of the nine-sided Bahá’í Temple of South America, a design by Hariri Pontarini…