architecture

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Arts & Culture

Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 - by Tracey Lindeman

Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?

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May 2021 / Memoir

The House That Mum Built

April 21, 2021March 24, 2022 - by Anubha Momin

Touring the homes of Frank Lloyd Wright helped me see what my architect mother had always wanted in life

Society

Canada’s Greatest Playground and Its Visionary Designer

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 - by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Fifty years ago, he transformed a children’s park into a social utopia

Environment

The Decade in Environment

December 19, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From natural disasters and extreme weather to the last tree left standing in a forest, these are the environment conversations that helped define Canada

A series of construction workers building a high-rise as the building and a nearby car emit large clouds of black smoke

Environment / November 2019

The False Promise of Green Housing

November 6, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Viviane Fairbank

One designer is challenging the conventional wisdom about environmentally friendly construction

Arts & Culture / July/August 2018

Who Says Canadian Architecture Is Boring?

July 19, 2018November 8, 2021 - by Simon Lewsen

From Toronto’s Union Station to saunas in cottage country, Partisans is reimagining design

Image courtesy of Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation

Politics

Mommy Dearest

July 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Drew Nelles

Mother Canada may be hideous and humiliating, but she’s who we are

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Ice Charades

July 17, 2015December 22, 2020 - by Omar Mouallem

Oilers owner Daryl Katz leads a misguided plan to remake downtown Edmonton

Photograph by Ema Peter/courtesy of Michael Green Architecture

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Wood Is the New Steel

April 13, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Adele Weder

Engineering laminated timber in British Columbia

April 2014

Back to the Drafting Table

April 8, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Hans Ibelings

What Belgium can teach us about better architecture

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Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?

Canada’s Greatest Playground and Its Visionary Designer

The Decade in Environment

The False Promise of Green Housing

Who Says Canadian Architecture Is Boring?

Mommy Dearest

Ice Charades

Wood Is the New Steel

Back to the Drafting Table

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