Ontario Place Cinesphere; Photo: Raysonho via Wikimedia Commons A court challenge by Ontario Place Protectors to stop the Ontario Place redevelopment has been dismissed by Justice Lisa Brownstone. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has upheld...

(Photo by Steve Frost) Architect Bruce Kuwabara, co-founder of KPMB Architects, has received a University of Toronto honorary doctorate. While Kuwabara has designed fine structures in Canada, he is also an accomplished city-builder, a valued...

Photo credit: WZMH Architects Architect Brian Rankin Andrew, a former partner at WZMH Architects, died peacefully on July 3, 2024, at the age of 73. He endured two years with terminal brain cancer, but remained optimistic throughout his...

Image credit: TMU The Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Architectural Science will be hosting an internationally recognized architecture exhibition about women in architecture entitled Buone Nuove: Good News from Italy, and has issued...

Image courtesy of University of Toronto School of Cities Park(ing) Day, an annual worldwide, public art project that reimagines parking spaces into pop-up parks and social spaces for a day, is making a comeback this September. Taking place from...

Image credit: Hariri Pontarini Last year, CreateTO and TO Live announced that a team led by Hariri Pontarini Architects was the winner of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (STLC) Design Competition. The winning team also included LMN Architects,...

Ontario Science Centre. Photo by James Brittain, courtesy Moriyama Teshima Architects On Thursday, July 11, Infrastructure Ontario doubled down on its unfounded claims that closing the Ontario Science Centre was necessary, and that repairs to the...

A photo by SwimOP shows fencing around Ontario Place that the group asserts was illegally moved from the high water mark to endanger swimmers and paddlers. In an all-day hearing on Friday, July 19, advocacy group Ontario Place Protectors challenged...

Photo credit: The Institute of Architects, Bangladesh (IAB) The Institute of Architects, Bangladesh (IAB) has announced its landmark expansion into Canada with the establishment of its first-ever international chapter in Canada. This occasion...

Image credit: Architecture Without Borders Quebec (AWBQ) Architecture Without Borders Quebec (AWBQ), Dark Matter Labs, Les Interstices, and RECYC-QUÉBEC have announced the premiere of the docu-fiction short film Les Matérialistes, focused on the...

Exterior view from the South-East. Photo by Harel Gilboa. The Shaare Zedek Helmsley Cancer Centre, designed by Canadian architect Farrow Partners with Rubinstein Ofer Architects, has received multiple international awards. The project, which is...

Phase one of the East Block of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Ont., jointly led by Architecture 49 and DFS Architects with contractor Heather & Little (Photo credit: HeatherAndLittle) Phase one of the East Block of the Canadian Parliament in...

André Mercure | Source : DMA Architectes Architect André Mercure recently passed away. Mercure was born in St-Hyacinthe in 1935 and graduated from Collège classique de St-Hyacinthe in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction. He went on to...

The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia (AFBC) is hosting its first design competition, a pavilion-scaled pop-up titled ?Lemonade Stand? that will be launched and on display at this year?s Design Festival Vancouver. ?A lemonade stand is a...

Photo credit: Steven Evans Ontario Place Protectors (OPP) has advised that the Ontario Government has agreed to stop demolition at Ontario Place, pending the hearing of OPP’s Application to the Superior Court of Ontario on July 19, 2024. The...

Multiplex (Credit: ReHousing) ReHousing has announced that its website resource, ReHousing.ca has been selected as a semi-finalist in the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Housing Supply Level-Up Challenge. The Housing Supply...

Photo credit: TCLF On Thursday, June 27, 2024, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) released a video oral history with the late landscape architect Claude Cormier. The 115-minute-long Cormier oral history is parsed into 28 two- to five-minute...

This article is a follow-up on my previous articles debunking the business case for the Ontario Science Centre’s relocation, analyzing how the engineers’ roof report doesn’t call for a complete closure, demonstrating how a temporary location...

This article is a follow-up on my previous articles debunking the business case for the Ontario Science Centre’s relocation, analyzing how the engineers’ roof report doesn’t call for a complete closure, and demonstrating how a temporary...

Photo courtesy of Stanley Paulus Architect Inc. The Al Kawthar Educational Centre and Mosque by Stanley Paulus Architect Inc. is a two-storey, 20,000 square-feet community centre for the Shiite Muslim Community that recently opened in Surrey,...

Large Buildings: North Island College Student Housing, HDR Architecture Members of British Columbia?s zero-carbon buildings community recently came together to recognize six individuals, projects, and organizations for their leadership in reducing...

Walking Tour: St. Lawrence (Photo credit: TSA) The 14th season of the Toronto Society of Architects? (TSA) Walking Tours, a popular summer initiative that invites Torontonians and visitors to explore the stories behind the city?s buildings and...

Jeet Malhotra, Workers forming a human chain to pour concrete manually at a building site in Chandigarh, India, ca. 1953. Gelatin silver print on paper, 7.6 × 7.6 cm. ARCH264665 Pierre Jeanneret Fonds, CCA. Gift of Jacqueline Jeanneret The CCA has...

Ontario Science Centre. Photo by Amanda Large Hot on the heels of the abrupt closure of the Ontario Science on Friday, June 22, 2024 the government?s search for a temporary location for the Science Centre began. The Monday after the closure,

The current Ontario Science Centre on Don Mills Road, in Toronto. Photo by BuBZ at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php"curid=3056582 On June 21, 2024, the...