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Addressing climate change through advocacy, policy and planning
Architects, landscape architects and urban planners are influential brokers to facilitate change in the built environment, yet we rely upon experts and…
Editorial: Back to the office – or not?
As we head towards the winter, many offices are settling into new patterns of work—some maintaining hybrid work options established during the pandemic, some…
Book Review: The Site Magazine—Deviant Devices and The Edit
REVIEW Christian Maidankine
Since taking over On Site Review in 2015, the designers, academics, practitioners, and journalists that make up The Site…
Creative Turn: How will AI change architecture?
TEXT AND IMAGES Sami Kazemi
To say that I created the above images may not be entirely accurate. Perhaps it’s more appropriate to say that I…
Exhibition Review: House of Card
TEXT Peter Sealy
PHOTO Thomas Demand
A blue blanket, white sheet, and two wrinkled pillows cover a bed in the corner of a room lit by a single, wall-mounted…
What you learn from an RFP site meeting
There’s a quiet tension that often comes from getting a bunch of candidates together for a site meeting during a Request for Proposals. Competing architects,…
Book Review: Unplanned Visitors—Queering the Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic…
By Olivier Vallerand (McGill – Queens University Press, 2020)
REVIEW Maya Orzechowska
“Gender and sexuality’s influence on the design and use of a space are…
Book Review: Ron Thom, Architect—The Life of a Creative Modernist
“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…
Canadian architects can lead the way in becoming better global citizens
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…
Interview: Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa
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,…
Editorial: Building Resiliency
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…
Policy: Rise for Architecture
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…
Panellizing Deep Energy Retrofits
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…
Recalibrating Infrastructure and Ecologies: Port Lands, Toronto, Ontario
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…
Hiding in Plain Sight: Embodied Carbon & MEP Systems
Most industry embodied carbon targets and benchmarks focus on architectural building materials, without considering the embodied carbon impact of mechanical,…
Book Review: Beyond the Divide—A Century of Canadian Mosque Design
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…
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