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…
Browsing Tag
Construction + Materials
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.
Shutterstock
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…
Farrow Partners develops Grip Timber CLT blocks for quick-assembly ICU wards
Canadian-based Nucap Industries and Farrow Partners has developed a state-of-the-art CLT building block that can be rapidly assembled into temporary…
FPInnovations launches new edition of the CLT Handbook
FPInnovations—a non-profit specializing in creating solutions that support the Canadian forest sector and its government and industry partners—has launched the…