Spreading the Wood: Three projects that are leading the way in Canadian mass…
A look at the latest mass timber innovations by Michael Green Architecture, Moriyama Teshima Architects, Acton Ostry Architects, and Intelligent City.
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Good Citizen: Park by Sidewalk Citizen, Calgary, Alberta
A design-build firm crafts a parkside restaurant inspired by Victorian-era conservatories.
Shell Game: Focal on Third, Vancouver, BC
An expressive structure raises the bar for spec office buildings in Vancouver.
BC firms launch new report on wood use in K-12 schools
A new report on the use of wood in the design and construction of kindergarten to grade 12 schools has just been released. The report, titled Wood Use in…
Eleven Building Projects Receive Copper Architecture Award
The North American Copper in Architecture Awards program recognizes excellent uses of copper in educational, religious, and government buildings .
City of Edmonton velodrome and community centre breaks ground
The construction phase of the Coronation Park Sports and Recreation Centre is underway following the City of Edmonton’s approval of the $153 million budget in…
DIALOG files for patent of hybrid timber floor system
DIALOG has officially filed for the patent of its Hybrid Timber Floor System (HTFS), a zero carbon prototype that received an award for Fast Company’s “2021…
Intelligent City opens automated urban housing factory
Intelligent City, the sister company to Vancouver architecture firm LWPAC, has begun building net-zero, mass timber urban housing projects in a newly opened…
Making an Entrance: Bamboo Bamboo, Yangshuo, Guilin, China
PROJECT Bamboo Bamboo, Yangshuo, Guilin, China
DESIGNER llLab
PHOTOS arch-exist photography
As frequent concertgoers know, you’ve scored a double bang for…
Resilient to the Bones
As a child, Anishinaabe/French artist Caroline Monnet watched her parents renovate old cottages into homes. The powerful act of transforming raw construction…
Hope scrapes the sky
Over the past year, DIALOG have been designing a prototype for a supertall zero-carbon hybrid timber tower; we’re calling it the Beacon of Hope. At 105 stories,…
Book Excerpt: Concrete—From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future
The following excerpt is taken from Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future by Mary Soderstrom (University of Regina Press, 2020). The book can…
Bata Shoe Factory, Batawa, Ontario
The late Sonja Bata, working with her husband Tomáš Bata, was the driving force behind the creation of the modernist factory town of Batawa, located 175 km east…
Copper is great at killing superbugs – so why don’t hospitals use it?
Stainless steel is the metal of choice in hospitals.
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Fantasilandia in Chile, one of Latin America’s largest theme parks, has replaced its most…
Call for participation in robotic fabrication workshop
Spots are available for professional architects to participate in a technical workshop on full-scale robotic fabrication, scheduled to be held at UBC from…
Editorial: Building Capacity
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…