Recalibrating Infrastructure and Ecologies: Port Lands, Toronto, Ontario
TEXT Shannon Bassett
PHOTOS Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker
Something big is happening east of downtown Toronto. The Don River runs through one of Toronto’s…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Embodied Carbon & MEP Systems
Most industry embodied carbon targets and benchmarks focus on architectural building materials, without considering the embodied carbon impact of mechanical,…
Editorial: Station Agent
In architecture competitions, the runner-up scheme is sometimes the most interesting one. That’s the case in the recent Re-imagining Railways design…
Longview: R.C. Harris Water Filtration Plant
In 1932, construction began on Toronto’s Victoria Park Water Filtration Plant and Pumping Station. Designed by architect Thomas Canfield Pomphrey and engineers…
Proofing the Future: 9th Avenue Parkade + Innovation Centre, Calgary, Alberta
PROJECT 9th Avenue Parkade + Innovation Centre, Calgary, Alberta
ARCHITECTS 5468796 Architecture in collaboration with Kasian Architecture, Interior Design…
Water Ways: Projects by gh3*, Local Practice, and Smith Vigeant architectes
The infrastructure required to process water—both as it enters our cities and homes, and returns to our lakes and streams—is vital to our everyday lives, and…
A Workplace Shines: Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage, Edmonton, Alberta
PROJECT Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage, Edmonton, Alberta
ARCHITECTS gh3* (design architect) with Morrison Hershfield (prime consultant)
PHOTOS gh3*
One of…
All the Sidewalk’s a Stage: 4th Street SW Underpass Enhancement, Calgary,…
PROJECT 4th Street SW Underpass Enhancement, Calgary, Alberta
ARCHITECT the marc boutin architectural collaborative inc.
TEXT Ximena Gonzalez
PHOTOS Yellow…
Ontario Association of Architects Joins Workforce 2030
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), along with 14 other design and construction stakeholders, has joined Workforce 2030, a new coalition led by the…
Feds announce $2 billion for large building retrofits
On October 1st, Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced a $10 billion investment in new major infrastructure initiatives to create jobs and economic growth.…
14 Montreal architects imagine the city’s future
A permanent exhibition at Montreal's Biosphere—with accompanying videos now available online—presents visions of Montreal's future by 14 of the city's…
Governor General’s Medal Winner: RTC 03
WINNER OF A 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S MEDAL IN ARCHITECTURE LOCATION Edmonton, Alberta
ARCHITECT gh3 architecture
PHOTOS gh3*
The built environment plays…
Eglinton GO Station
"It’s a building about passage and threshold, and an example of what you can do with a utilitarian infrastructure that we haven’t paid attention to for…
Things are Looking Up: Union Station Food Court, Toronto, Ontario
PROJECT Union Station Food Court, Toronto, Ontario
ARCHITECTS PARTISANS in collaboration with DIALOG and GH+A
Cultivating a future client
Seven…
Riding the Rocket: Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, Toronto, Ontario
In a Walmart parking lot north of Toronto, a turtle shell-shaped canopy balances atop the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station. An artwork by Paul Raff,…
Canada’s Infrastructure of the Future
In 2013, McKinsey & Company declared that, “Simply to support projected economic growth between now and 2030, we estimate that global infrastructure…