Canadian Architect


Keyword
Digital Fabrication

TaylorX Symposium – University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design

TaylorX Symposium – University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design


A 3D-printed sandstone wall by Swiss architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger.

How Big Can 3D Printing Go?

The architects in 3DXL, the Design Exchange’s summer exhibition, are working big—creating full-scale building components using 3D printing.

new design for OCAD U creates new gateway at mccaul and dundas streets in toronto

Bortolotto designs interactive gateway to the Ontario College of Art and Design University


3DXL: a large-scale 3D printing exhibition

3DXL: A Large-Scale 3D Printing Exhibition


SINE is an installation developed by [R]ed[U]x Lab, a collective of Ryerson Architectural Science students interested in digital fabrication. The prototype was created with the Hobby Electronics Club from the Engineering department and presented at the Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

Wired Education


A winter installation by Montreal design firm Kanva arrays thousands of plastic stalks in long, rectangular plots across the downtown Place des Festivals. Downlights gently sweep the site, recalling sunrise and sunset over the province's wheat fields. Martine Doyon

Winter Wonderland

Montreal's fourth annual Luminothrapie festival animates the downtown Quartier des Spectacles with site-specific installations and video art.

school of architecture at the university of waterloo in cambridge, ontario

Adaptive Architecture 2013: ACADIA Conference in Cambridge this fall


chuck hoberman, hoberman associates, expanding aluminum sphere, partially deployed (detail), 1991. walter wick shoei yoh + architects, galaxy toyama, gymnasium, imizu, toyama, japan: experiment of photoelasticity for the roof (detail), 1990 -1992 shoei yoh + architects

CCA welcomes archives donated by Chuck Hoberman and Shoei Yoh


Faade consultancy Front Inc designed the futuristic envelope for Neil Denari's HL23, a residential building overlooking the elevated High Line park in Manhattan. Exploring new modes of practice, Front also worked through a sister company to supply the glazing portions, taking responsibility for all aspects of the system's design and production. The firm was co-founded by Marc Simmons--who trained in architecture at the University of Waterloo--along with partners Bruce Nichol and Na Min Ra. Marc Simmons

Editorial: Alternative Pathways

Buildings deteriorate, projects falter, relationships fall apart--all yielding openings for new working methods and new talent to enter the market.

The designed insertions are lenses that facilitate the progressive understanding, through user movement, of a sense of place; a simultaneity within the city characterized as both a north/south bridge between the Beltline community and downtown and the CPR trajectory that connects eastern and western Canadian territories.

1st Street SW Underpass Enhancement