Specifications

A return to technically competent specifications is required: specifications that are firmly rooted in performance, with product listings that illustrate the…

For decades, micro-apartments and their predecessors have offered relatively affordable living spaces in the heart of North America's largest cities.

Entitled "Where do you Stand?" The 2011 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference challenged architectural educators to adapt not only to the…

The new Business Incentive Program (BIP) from Toronto Hydro-Electric System promotes electricity-saving renovations to buildings totalling 25,000 square feet or…

To critical acclaim, a financial institution builds Canada's first double skin building for severe climatic conditions.

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada actively seeks new and better ways to serve its members, providing practical, tangible benefits to them. To this…

A condominium project remains sensitive to the scale and detailing of a historically significant sister building in Montreal's Paper Hill district.

An overview of international and Canadian efforts to use photovoltaic solar energy, derived from UBC's recent workshop on Building Integrated Photovoltaics…

A sausage factory incorporates complex mechanical systems and environmental stewardship in an updated industrial architecture.

In his 1927 book, The Public and its Problems, American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey remarked that "a class of experts is inevitably so removed from common…