COVID-19

The public message was clear: maintain six feet apart. As people began to physically distance themselves to prevent the spread of COVID-19, cities and rural…

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…

Manual of Physical Distancing Principal investigators Paul Lewis, Guy Nordenson, David J. Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki. Updated August 2020,…

The current global pandemic has quickly transformed our spaces, affecting how people are living, working, and moving through their day-to-day lives.…

When June 21 marked 100 days since universities collectively flipped to remote learning, I completed a qualitative analysis of the suddenly-virtual classroom…

The Main Street Design Challenge – developed by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) – invites all Canadian…

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…

A multi-disciplinary team led by Citizen Care Pod Corporation, in collaboration with WZMH Architects, PCL Construction, Insight Enterprises and Microsoft, has…

Last month, Carleton University developed an internal funding opportunity to provide seed funding for individuals or teams of researchers for solutions to…

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,…