Heritage + Adaptive Reuse

Domestic and international reaction to the Paris blaze has been swift. But is this flurry of activity happening too quickly? And does it sufficiently account…

The prime minister’s official residence at 24 Sussex Drive is in critical condition. Its last major renovation was in 1951, and, according to an NCC report…

In a two-decade-long project, Parliament Hill’s West Block has been meticulously restored, and a monumental glass roof added over its courtyard to crown the…

Housed in a former train station, the new Senate of Canada Building sits at the junction of nineteenth-century craft and twenty-first-century technology.

A riverfront post office in a mid-sized Ontario city is sensitively remade into Canada's first bookless library.

A new kind of urban park, The Bentway repurposes the space under Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway. The string of outdoor rooms brings much-needed breathing space…

By the time Arthur Erickson tackled the design of the Bank of Canada Headquarters in Ottawa in the late 1960s, he had demonstrated mastery in concrete at Simon…

In this superbly researched and handsome book, Gauvin Alexander Bailey presents a groundbreaking assessment of three and one-half centuries of rampant French…

They don’t make them like they used to. For 72 years, Winnipeg’s Green Blankstein Russell and Associates (GBR) were prolific in ways not possible anymore. This…

Love it or hate it, no-one in Montreal can ignore the new Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal—the CHUM. It is gargantuan, all three million square…