Elsa Lam

Last summer, two of us requested to see a Powerpoint deck outlining options for the Ontario Science Centre's closure. Such requests are supposed to take 30 days to fill. We haven't heard back yet.

An architect-led group called HouseEurope! has a year to collect a million signatures from across the EU in support of a proposal to incentivize renovations over demolition.

In Niagara Falls, a new community building is making its mark as a hub for locals and a new draw for tourists.

How can architects actively design their own practices—and why should they do so? An article by Rick Linley in this issue  tackles the nuts-and-bolts of this question, and two recent sessions in Toronto addressed the topic head-on.  At the Interior Design Show, a panel entitled “Designing the Plane while Flying It: Leading in Turbulent Times” […]

The book presents 11 projects completed over the course of Frontini’s career at the Toronto branch of Perkins&Will.

In the next few days, Judge Paul Schabas will decide on whether to temporarily bar the government from removing the lanes on Bloor, University, and Yonge in Toronto. He will render a final decision on the case in the coming months.

The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roof didn't agree.

By Naomi Keena and Avi Friedman (Routledge, 2024) The next frontier for housing is one that looks to embedding housing as part of a circular economy. Is it possible, this book asks, to disrupt the “take, make, waste” model of producing housing to instead provide affordable, waste-free housing? A circular economy approach is often associated […]

By Robert Jan van Pelt (Park Books, 2025) The largest artifact in the touring exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away., currently on display at the ROM in Toronto, is a wooden barracks building. It’s from the Auschwitz-Monowitz camp, a satellite to Auschwitz created to provide slave labour to the IG Farben corporation for […]

A strategic renovation gives a 1990s library a major makeover on a modest budget.