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Canam Group founders and Quebec investor group buying back Canadian operations
A group of Quebec investors including the founding Dutil family is buying back the Canadian operations of the Canam Group architectural steel company, as well as certain assets in the United States and overseas, less than three years after…
Nova Scotia Launches a Design Competition for a New Art Gallery
The province of Nova Scotia invites international architectural teams to participate in a design competition for a new art gallery on the Halifax Waterfront.“We are embarking on an exciting phase of the project to build Nova…
Drummondville Public Library
Originating from an architectural competition, the Drummondville Library, by Chevalier Morales in consortium with DMA architects, transposes the historical, cultural and poetic essence of the region into a studied urban and architectural…
University of Calgary launches new Doctor of Design program
The University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL) is launching a doctoral program which is the first in Canada that specifically focuses on practicing architects, planners, and landscape architects, according…
U of T proposes 10-storey graduate residence on St. George campus
The University of Toronto has unveiled plans for a 10-storey building on Harbord Street that would provide housing for over 200 graduate students and expand living, social and study spaces on the St. George campus.With a brick exterior…
Supreme Court eyes brighter future with skylight, grand hall in temporary digs
OTTAWA – They say justice must be seen to be done, and that should become a little easier in the Supreme Court of Canada's temporary new home.A few years from now, visitors to the renovated West Memorial Building in Ottawa will enter a…
Federal scientists study how to adapt building codes to climate change
When storm winds howl and rivers flood, buildings take the brunt.And as climate change makes all kinds of extreme weather more frequent and more destructive, scientists at the National Research Council are trying to figure out how to…
Laurier Brantford YMCA
When the YMCA partnered with Wilfrid Laurier University to erect a new facility in downtown Brantford, the chosen site — a steep hill nestled between two parallel streets — revealed a rich and exciting past. Some 400,000 artefacts dating as…
Carleton University Announces the New Hobin Prize in Architecture and City Building
The new Hobin Prize in Architecture and City Building recognizes outstanding work produced by students at Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism.The Ottawa firm Hobin Architecture, whose founder Barry…
Canadian Architects are Taking on the World
Donald Schmitt is Principal of Diamond Schmitt Architects.On Monday, Lincoln Center announced that my firm, Diamond Schmitt, would lead the transformation of its David Geffen Hall, the home of the New York Philharmonic symphony…