urban design

Located on the Mount Royal Heritage Site, McGill University enjoys a strategic position between the mountain and the Montreal business district. In 2010, the campus was converted to become completely pedestrianized. Since then, the previous…

The public is invited to a free evening of awards presentation and public lecture featuring the 12 recipients of the 2018 National Urban Design Awards from nine communities across Canada. Each recipient will give a four-minute presentation…

World Architecture Festival, the world’s largest international architectural event, opened earlier today in Amsterdam. Following a busy day of live presentations, in which hundreds of shortlisted projects were presented by architectural…

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."…

The Quartier des spectacles Partnership is pleased to announce that it has formed a major international partnership with Quays Culture, an organization that presents temporary public art works and cultural events in Manchester, United…

The City of Québec has launched a call for tenders to professional services in landscape architecture, urban design and environmental services for the development of an enhancement plan for the four major rivers within the municipal…

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) announce that entries are now being accepted for the 2018 National Urban Design Awards.…

More than one-half mile of elevated expressway was demolished in the heart of downtown Montréal to make way for a ground-level urban boulevard and over six acres of continuous public space, bookended by two monumental sculptures. Montréal…

For decades, Winnipeg residents have debated the idea of allowing pedestrians to once again cross a downtown intersection many consider iconic.This fall, they may be able to vote on it.Mayor Brian Bowman announced Wednesday he…

An arcade console-inspired installation, interactive drumming vibrations, large pin-impression walls inviting you to “leave your mark”: these enticing installations are the result of Ryerson University’s ShapeLab design challenge for the…