architecture | The Walrus

Cities / 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 12, 2019 - 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 / Web Exclusives

Mommy Dearest

July 23, 2015December 4, 2019 - by Drew Nelles

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

Cities / Web Exclusives

Ice Charades

July 17, 2015March 14, 2020 - by Omar Mouallem

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

April 2014 / Cities

Back to the Drafting Table

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

What Belgium can teach us about better architecture

April 2014 / Society

Block by Block

March 17, 2014January 7, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

How Lego pieced together modernism

Two men and one women talking at a table

Books / January/February 2014

Iron Lady

January 28, 2014January 7, 2020 - by Adele Weder

For Phyllis Lambert, the Seagram Building was just the beginning