Dingy is a word that conjures thoughts of old institutional spaces. Academic buildings with dimly-lit hallways and windowless classrooms punctured with fluorescent glare. Rarely are

Indigenous communities across Canada continue to be sidelined or completely excluded from initial planning phases of new developments and renovations.

How AMPED Sports Lab and Ice Complex in Ottawa, Ontario, became the first Zero Carbon Building Performance Standard certified arena.

When considering products with recycled content, pay attention to the types of recycled materials that are in them.

In the age of COVID, it's also important to consider how chemical exposures influence our ability to fight disease.

Qaumajuq, meaning “it is bright” or “it is lit” in Inuktitut, opens virtually this week, but the 40,000-square foot addition has been almost a decade in the making.

The Edmonton Public Library recently revamped its flagship branch: the Stanley A. Milner Library.

Ultimately, the hybrid office will have at its heart a planning principle based on people rotating in and out of the office, with flexible schedules they have more control over than ever.

Crafted into a mix of interconnected brick buildings circa 1970, Niagara Welland Commons brings natural light to a decades-old campus.

Colleges and universities are questioning how much space will be needed in the future campus, how it will be operated, and how to make our built environment more healthy, sustainable and resilient.

Facility management affects a significant component of total lifetime embodied carbon.

A much anticipated, and unfinished, addition to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto was fast-tracked to keep pace with a fast-moving pandemic.

How to socially distance in spaces charged for social interactions? This is just one challenge facing community centres as they prepare for reopening—bit by bit—across

One area where cohesive design is becoming increasingly important is residential healthcare, which encompasses memory care and mental health.

Sunnybrook Hospital has become the first healthcare facility in Toronto to welcome honeybees to its 100-acre property.

Commuters’ willingness to jump on the bus, light-rail car or subway is expected to be a driving factor in repopulating office space in some major North American markets, including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Humans are naturally social creatures. So why shouldn’t our built environment be designed to accommodate and encourage this natural state of being?