1st Place (tied) + Planners Prize Winner: $20,000 prizeTowerhouse by Studio Oh Song | New York, United StatesTeam members: Ericka Song, Justin Oh Urbanarium recently announced the winners of Decoding Density, an affordable housing ideas competition...

Alexandre Cassiani et François St-Hilaire, Architects, PartnersPhoto credit: Martine Doucet Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes (MSDL Architectes) has announced the appointment of Alexandre Cassiani and François St-Hilaire as partners...

Photo credit: Le Canal de Lachine 4.0 A total of 18 applications were received after the City of Montréal announced it was seeking the services of three multidisciplinary teams to help design scenarios for both public and private lands in the...

Rendering by PLAY-TIME, Courtesy of Diamond Schmitt Diamond Schmitt has been selected as the primary consultant to design and plan Toronto Metropolitan University?s (TMU) new School of Medicine. The building, which will be located in Brampton,...

Welcoming ceremony, Ng? Aho International Indigenous Design Forum, NZ, 2018. The RAIC International Prize was established in 2013, and was originally called the RAIC Moriyama Prize. It was based on Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama?s belief that...

Over 100 black-and-white photos document the current state of Ontario Place?s buildings by Eberhard Zeidler and landscape by Michael Hough. Photo by Steven Evans As It Is: A precarious moment in the life of Ontario Place takes readers on a journey...

WINNER OF THE 2024 RAIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AWARD The Temple of Light in Kootenay Bay, BC, was the first large-scale realization of a prototype by Patkau Design Lab. The structure?s curved petals are made from wood joists laid in non-parallel...

In February 2019, the Senate and House of Commons moved to temporary locations while Parliament?s Centre Block, their permanent home, is rehabilitated. The House of Commons is currently situated in the restored West Block, designed by...

Winner of a 2024 RAIC Architectural Journalism and Media Award Kathleen Fu?s cover artwork, developed as part of her work with the University of Waterloo School of Architecture?s Humanics Lab, explores how a high-rise tower corridor could be...

Radoslav Zuk in his office. Photo by Manon Paquet It is with sadness that we announce the death on February 25, 2024, of our colleague Emeritus Professor Radoslav Zuk, B.Arch. ?56 (McGill), M.Arch. ?60 (MIT), D.Sc. ?92 Hon (Ukrainian Academy of...

Platform.Middle?Architecture for Housing the 99% By 5468796 Architecture (Arquine, 2024)   5468796 Architecture Winnipeg architecture firm 5468796 is known for working outside of the norm?the puzzle-box Bloc 10, the flying-saucer-like 62M?and...

Justice Murray Sinclair is the winner of this year?s RAIC Gold Medal. Photo courtesy Sinclair Family Born and raised on the former St. Peters Indian Reserve North of Selkirk, Manitoba, Justice Murray Sinclair has become a leader for human rights...

Manitoba Women in Design By Marieke Gruwal (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, 2024) Manitoba is an important site for the history of women architects in Canada. Between 1920 and 1960, the University of Manitoba graduated the highest number of...

WINNER OF THE 2024 RAIC EMERGING ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE AWARD The front elevation of The Sandbox, a home in Bathurst, New Brunswick, appears as a simple box form wrapped by a weathering steel stair. A second steel element forms a windbreak over the...

Winner of the 2024 RAIC Advocate for Architecture Award Current and recent BEAT executive and advisory committee members include Dimitra Papantonis, Kiana Mozayyan, Camille Mitchell, Brigitte Shim, Jennifer Esposito, Shirley Blumberg, Angela Gou,...

Editor Elsa Lam was part of the OAA Design Excellence jury, which convened for in-person deliberations at the OAA Headquarters this spring. Photo OAA This month?s issue of Canadian Architect is a celebration of award winners: it features the...

Winner of a 2024 RAIC Architectural Journalism and Media Award Jim Taggert Jim Taggart left architectural practice in 1993 to pursue parallel interests in writing, editing and education. He started as a freelance writer whose byline soon became a...

WINNER OF THE 2024 RAIC ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE AWARD Dubbeldam?s office is located in a building on Toronto?s St. Clair West owned and renovated by the firm into a mixed-use creative hub. The building also includes a coworking space, a ground-floor...

100 Women: Architects in Practice By Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft (RIBA Publishing, 2024) This sampling of work by women architects is, according to its authors, ?a snapshot of innovative architectural...

An exterior daytime rendering shows the Arts Commons Transformation three-level, 162,000 sq. ft.expansion building. (Rendering: CMLC) After two years of planning and design work, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and its partners at Arts...

Conceptual rendering of the fenced-in outdoor pickleball court at the East Village Washroom. A total of 11 submissions were received from design teams across Canada, and after deliberation by a jury of architects, designers, and community...

Rendering courtesy of PUBLIC WORK Over the last two years, The Bentway and the City of Toronto have collaborated on a vision for underutilized public spaces below and adjacent to the Gardiner Expressway, from Dufferin to the DVP. Earlier this...

Photo credit: Olivier Blouin The Montréal Olympic Park is launching an international idea competition to reuse and valorize the components of the roof of the Olympic Stadium, an architectural icon for Quebec and Canada. Student and...

A new micro-unit prototype designed by Superkül featuring a retractable ceiling bed. Photography by Ryan Fung. Every day brings more news about Canada?s ? and the world?s ? housing crisis. Large numbers of people of different demographics are...

The Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ) has announced the winning projects of its Prix d’excellence en architecture 2024. Eleven projects were honoured at a gala event hosted by Jean-René Dufort, which was held at Espace St-Denis in Montreal....