urbanism

From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities By Alison Sant (Island Press, 2022) REVIEW Anne Lissett As the climate crisis worsens, and we…

PROJECT Manitou a bi Bii daziigae (formerly the Innovation Centre) at Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba ARCHITECTS Diamond Schmitt Architects in joint…

In late June, we sat down with Canadian-born, L.A.-based architect Frank Gehry. Gehry was back in his hometown, Toronto, for the launch of Forma, a pair of…

Recently, a bench I’d barely noticed on countless walks past acquired an eye-catching sticker labeling it a DESIGN CRIME. “This item is a design against…

Certain works of architecture are so carefully woven into the times, places and cultures within which they are set, they seem to have always been there. Such…

PROJECT Grosvenor Ambleside, West Vancouver, BC ARCHITECT James K.M. Cheng Architects TEXT Sean Ruthen Discussions of the “missing middle” often focus on…

INTERVIEWER Adele Weder Nina-Marie Lister has made a career of embedding nature within the design of our daily lives. As founder of the studio Plandform and…

TEXT Trevor Boddy For over a century, ‘architectural zoos’ have been permanent collections of architectural animals—one example each from the leading species…

The Ontario Association of Architects’ (OAA) biennial SHIFT Challenge event celebrates five ideas that “exemplify how architectural thinking is uniquely…

PROJECT Habitations Saint-Michel Nord, Montreal, Quebec ARCHITECT Saia Barbarese Topouzanov Architectes PHOTOS James Brittain One’s first impression of…