Canadian Urban Institute announces Brownie Award Finalists
The Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) in collaboration with FCM Green Municipal Fund and the Canadian Brownfields Network has announced the following 2015 CUI…
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Bjarke Ingels retained by Westbank/Allied Properties joint venture for Toronto’s…
Allied Properties recently announced that it has established a joint-venture arrangement with Westbank (the "King & Spadina JV") to redevelop 489-539 King…
Canadian architects figure prominently in the 2015 R+D Awards
Nine risk-taking projects, products and technologies were recognized by a distinguished jury in this year's R+D Awards program, including three Canadian design…
2015 Top Ten Endangered Places and Worst Losses List released
The Top Ten Endangered Places List is released annually to bring national attention to sites at risk due to neglect, lack of funding, inappropriate development…
Integrating renewables and conservation measures in a net-zero energy low-rise…
Housing accounts for 17 per cent of Canada’s secondary energy use and 15 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Growth in the housing stock has contributed to a…
The National Trust Responds to Federal Government’s Designation of Historic…
The National Trust for Canada is pleased to see the federal government’s (Environment Canada) announcement that 74 as yet unnamed lighthouses will be…
Architizer’s red carpet gala in New York honours the world’s best…
Architizer recognized honorees The Lego Group, Reiulf Ramstad Architects, SsD architecture + urbanism, August Smart Lock, and the 14+ Foundation at the third…
HBSA Architecture Crawl
Hamilton has become an architecture hotspot overnight and you’re invited to come find out why. As part of the Ontario Association of Architects 2015…
Valuing Urban Resilience
The Canadian Urban Institute has announced this +PLACE MAKER session on, sponsored by BOMA Canada, that will explore the latest thinking on how and what is…
KANVA named recipient of 2015 RAIC Emerging Architectural Practice Award
A Montreal multidisciplinary firm that experiments with materials and building methods is the recipient of the 2015 Emerging Architectural Practice Award given…
Last chance to submit a nomination to Canada’s Top Ten Endangered Places…
The deadline to submit a nomination to the National Trust for Canada’s Top Ten Endangered Places List is looming!There are many threatened historic places…
Come Up To My Room 2015 takes over the Gladstone Hotel
For 12 years, the Gladstone Hotel has been bringing Toronto audiences the cutting edge of art and design. Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) is unique amongst…
2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize awarded to the Finnish Committee…
Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund (WMF), recently announced that the project to restore Alvar Aalto's seminal Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia,…
RAIC poll reveals municipal candidates’ views on architecture and urban…
Candidates in Ottawa’s urban wards are far more likely to indicate support for policies aimed at improving the city’s architecture and urban design…
ResilienCity: The New Urban Paradigm at the Green Building Festival in Toronto
The largest climate march in history took place last week, as over 100 international leaders gathered in New York City to hammer out strategies addressing the…
Canadian modern furniture retailer EQ3 unveils second capsule collection in…
With a core commitment to corporate social responsibility, and, in partnership with the Michaëlle Jean Foundation, modern furniture retailer EQ3 introduces…