coronavirus

How are architects faring as we head into the second wave of the pandemic? Two surveys in late August—one by the Ontario Association of Architects, the other…

We remain in the midst of a global pandemic, with the possibility of a second wave of infection on the horizon. How are architectural design and…

TEXT Caroline Robbie, Quadrangle In early June, The New York Times surveyed 511 epidemiologists on when we could return to a variety of everyday…

TEXT Robert Davies, Director and Principal, Montgomery Sisam Architects During the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care homes have seen a significant share of…

The shuttering of community spaces around the world, in the hope of limiting the spread of COVID-19, created an oddly shared global experience of…

Perkins and Will and the Healthy Building Network (HBN) have issued a statement that claims that building products with antimicrobial treatments are not proven…

Throughout history, disease and urban life are bound together, and together they’ve had a profound impact on the design of cities. In the 19th century,…

A new Canada-wide challenge launches today to generate responsible, sustainable, and resilient design solutions that can be implemented during COVID-19…

By Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and Iván López Munuera Part of The World Around, an online Earth Day summit, this 13-minute film is a…

Change is all around us. While some of the change is good, some is threatening to bring a lot of stress into our lives. And I don’t think I need to remind…

How will the Covid-19 pandemic affect the built environment? Will we have to rethink concepts such as urban densification—or will we simply return to “business…

When lockdowns and stay-at-home orders began to respond to Covid-19, so did questions of when things can “return to normal”. This line of questioning…

The COVID-19 pandemic has universally disrupted our lives in unimaginable ways. While it has immobilized the world physically, virtually, we’re more active…

A tourist from Québec poses with a Canadian flag in Peggy’s Cove, N.S. on Canada Day, 2016. Allowing domestic tourism to resume may be one step to carefully…

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a few construction sites in Canada are ramping up: those that expand the capacity of the healthcare system. The…

Since early April, WZMH Architects has been working alongside Quasar Consulting Group, Loring Consulting Engineers Inc., Stephenson Engineering Ltd, PCL…