The 2024 Canadian Architect Awards were tightly contended. Over two days of deliberation in October, jurors Andrea Wolff, Matthew Hickey, and D’Arcy Jones considered 143 entries to arrive at a selection of four Awards of Excellence winners and six Award of Merit winners. They also considered 35 student entries—the top architecture thesis projects in Canada […]

Nov 1, 2024 · PROJECTS T3 Sterling Road and T3 Bayside Phase 1 ARCHITECTS–T3 STERLING ROAD DLR Group Architecture inc. (Design Architect and Architect-of-Record) and WZMH (Local Affiliate Architect) ARCHITECTS–T3 BAYSIDE WZMH Architects (Executive Architect) and 3XN (Design Architect) TEXT Lloyd Alter In 1970, Barton Myers and Jack Diamond bought the Eclipse Whitewear Building on King Street in Toronto

Dec 11, 2024 · DesignTO, Photo by Simon Liao. The DesignTO Festival will be returning to Toronto to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The festival, which will be taking place from January 24 to February 2, 2025, will feature over 100 free events, installations, tours, talks and exhibitions by more than 300 designers and artists.

Nov 25, 2024 · Too Fun by Leala Hewak ($35 CAD). This LP-sized book explores Raymond Moriyama’s brutalist masterpiece, the Ontario Science Centre, through 150 photographs of Hewak’s family outings to the playhouse in the months before its closure.

5 days ago · Groundwork is a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of engagement with new project sites.Using documentary as a curatorial tool, the CCA will take a critical look at how designers across diverse geographies and contexts engage with their environments in preliminary phases of projects.

Dec 12, 2024 · Rendering: Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital in Picton, Ontario. The Quinte Health Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital in Picton, Ontario, which has officially broken ground, will be the first all mass timber acute care hospital in North America upon completion in 2027.. The new hospital is designed by HDR and currently under construction with M. Sullivan & Son and Infrastructure Ontario.

Dec 2, 2024 · Designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area, South Parkdale demonstrates a commitment to social equity in the face of gentrification. Within the neighbourhood, Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church was selected for its signs of disrepair and intent for revitalization.

Oct 4, 2024 · The Canada Council for the Arts will award 14 grants, and give priority to people who identify as First Nations, Inuit or Métis, Black, racialized, Deaf or disabled, members of official language minority communities, young people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people of diverse gender identities, women and people at the crossroads of these identities.

Nov 5, 2024 · The development also includes 1,508 student housing beds (1,333 new and 175 replacement), focusing on graduate students, a 400-seat dining hall, 37 new childcare spaces, common amenity spaces and academic and administrative office spaces honouring the communal legacy of St. John’s College.

Oct 1, 2024 · Now, almost 10 years later, with a team of nearly twenty, Leckie chuckles at the word “emerging,” wondering if being emergent ultimately comes down to being clear about what projects to turn down.