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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Cities

Ice Charades

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

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

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Cities

Wood Is the New Steel

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

Engineering laminated timber in British Columbia

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April 2014 / Cities

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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