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Securing Public Space?
What planners and designers should think about when incorporating security measures into the built environment.
RAIC opens nominations for 2019 College of Fellows inductees
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) is inviting nominations for the College of Fellows. The College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) bestows Fellowship to RAIC members in recognition of…
B+H to design new SickKids Patient Support Centre
B+H has been selected by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) as the Design Architect and Prime Consultant for the hospital’s groundbreaking new Patient Support Centre (PSC).The PSC is the first phase of Project Horizon – the…
Federal money brings Hamilton’s Ancaster Arts Centre closer to reality
On August 27, the Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Seniors and Member of Parliament (Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas), announced funding of $1,500,000 for the development of the Ancaster Arts Centre. Minister Tassi made this…
New phase of Toronto’s The Bentway opens August 25
The first section of the Gardiner Expressway opened in 1958. The first section of The Bentway opened in January 2018. To celebrate the completion of the entire Phase 1, The Bentway now presents a block party "60 years in the making."…
Full design team named for Montreal’s new National Bank HQ
National Bank is pleased to announce the partners it has enlisted to work on its new head office, which will be located at 800 Saint-Jacques Street West in central Montreal. The design process for the head office will continue over the…
WPP to anchor Menkes’ Waterfront Innovation Centre in Toronto
Menkes Developments Ltd. (Menkes) and Alcion Ventures, L.P. (Alcion), in collaboration with Waterfront Toronto, have announced WPP will be the anchor tenant at the Waterfront Innovation Centre, a cutting-edge 400,000 square foot plus…
Church flipping: chapels reborn as cabarets, cheese plants and rock star shrines
Night peering through the stained-glass windows, the dancer preens like a burlesque black swan at what was once the Mackenzie Memorial Gospel Church in Stratford, Ont.It's the SIN Burlesque Erotic Cabaret at the Revival House, and the…
Humber College Daycare
Not too many people would envision the change that recently took place at Humber College’s main campus in Etobicoke. The former Funeral Services Education Program space which was used for teaching the preparation of bodies for funerals for…
Mixed-use ‘Wonder’ condominium to replace Toronto’s Weston Bakery
Graywood Developments and Alterra have their latest mixed-use project, Toronto's Wonder Condos. Situated at the former Bread Factory at Eastern Avenue and Logan Avenue, Wonder will transform a local Leslieville landmark into the premier,…