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Why Immigrants Answer When Edmonton’s Suburbs Call
Canada’s population is expected to grow significantly within the next few decades – an increase of 38.2 to 52.5 million from 2021 to 2043. Alberta alone…
“Keekagin, the thing you look for to steer when you are lost”: Healing and…
For the third and final instalment of In the Postcolony, a three-year thematic series facilitated through the CCA Master’s Students Program, we undertook a…
Editorial: The Value of Awards
When the Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence began in 1967, there were few architecture awards in Canada. The Massey Medals, which later became the…
Jury Comments: The 55th annual Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence
In October, jurors Peter Hargraves, Betsy Williamson, Louis Lemay,and photo juror Félix Michaud met to adjudicate the 55th annual Canadian Architect Awards of…
Reimagining Canada’s long-term care facilities
Canada’s older adult population increased by nearly one million people over the last five years and is projected to grow exponentially more in the coming…
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…
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