The winners of the 2014 Holcim Awards for North America were recently announced in Toronto. The 13 winning projects share in more than USD 300,000 prize…
Next Big One is an international open ideas competition organized by the Architecture for Humanity Vancouver Chapter, and raises awareness of the high-magnitude…
Shigeru Ban will receive the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, according to Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the…
Resilience (noun): (1) elasticity; (2) toughness. Heritage builds resilience by rooting identity and sense of place, acting as a catalyst for economic and…
This exhibition at Toronto’s Gallery 44 runs from January 10 to February 15, 2014, and features evocative media installations based on natural disasters…
On October 1, 2013, the new Emergency Department at Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) opened for patients. The new ER is the first completed phase of the SMH…
Resilience is the ability for a system to recover quickly from unexpected change or misfortune. In the design of resilient communities the challenge is to…
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the three winners of its Designing Recovery competition, which was launched this year in collaboration…
Running from June 24-September 8, 2013. this exhibition at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre concerns, as the title would suggest, the automobile. Asked to…