July’s deluge on the Don Valley Parkway was the result of fateful planning choices decades ago. A Port Lands project is now trying to avert disaster downstream – but there are more far-reaching ways to create ‘sponge cities’ for the future
The city has dabbled with pedestrianizing streets, and then decisively backed away. Other than a few bike lanes, it’s as if those summers of ‘slow streets’ and raucous patio parties never happened
Azabudai Hills are Tokyo’s newest neighbourhood – an eight-hectare collage of offices, shops and homes designed by American architect Pelli Clarke & Partners and the British provocateurs Heatherwick Studio
Judging from the latest 12 awards, the best of Canadian architecture is well-meaning, moderately attentive to sustainability and maybe – or maybe not – interesting or beautiful
Social and demographic changes have left many Canadian heritage sites and churches underused and in poor condition, while government funding for their maintenance is scarce