In many Ontario communities, we are seeing the effects of sprawl, gridlock in major thoroughfares and the dangers of pollution to the province's water and air quality. It is clear the development patterns of the past can no longer…

TORONTO -- The city of Toronto has announced the winner of the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Competition. The winning team, chosen from 48 international proposals, is comprised of Toronto firms PLANT Architect and Shore Tilbe Irwin…

The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in the Schickedanz case is a real watershed decision for the development industry in Ontario. The Schickedanz decision deals with the relatively new development vehicle known as the "common…

Green building has taken off in Canada. Look no further than the Canada Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program as an example. Since its inception in December 2004, about 60 buildings have been…

The idea of laying a rubber sidewalk might sound more like a college prank than a serious endeavour by a city public works department, but a Toronto-based company is betting Canadian municipalities like Toronto will take to the idea like a…

Several years back, reports architect Eric Gauthier of Faucher Aubertin Brodeur Gauthier architects (FABG), there was considerable consternation in Montreal's design community about the city's cultural future. The source of this soul…

Two hours west of Toronto, the Niagara Escarpment knifes 725 kilometres through southern Ontario from Lake Erie north, forming a stiletto of land jutting into Georgian Bay known as the Bruce Peninsula. Along its rocky edges are…

Paris is called the City of Light for the flair with which most of its historic monuments and many of its architectural gems are illuminated externally after dark.Then there is Vancouver, which isn't Paris, but in its own unassuming yet…

The unfortunate truth is that land rights disputes between First Nations and non-natives pre-date the founding of Canada. Since 1867, the responsibility for managing First Nations land rights was held by the Crown, and since then a…

Maimonides Park, first developed in the 1960s when Cte Saint Luc was a rapidly developing suburb of Montreal, is characterized by two distinct spatial realities: located adjacent to the sprawling Cte Saint Luc railyards, the park is an…