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…
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 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, the sister company to Vancouver architecture firm LWPAC, has begun building net-zero, mass timber urban housing projects in a newly opened…
As a child, Anishinaabe/French artist Caroline Monnet watched her parents renovate old cottages into homes. The powerful act of transforming raw construction…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Spots are available for professional architects to participate in a technical workshop on full-scale robotic fabrication, scheduled to be held at UBC from…
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…