Too much empty space is bad for a city. Urbanism thrives on tight corners and complex juxtapositions. An airport runway is the opposite of that: a mile of nothing. How then do you turn a strip of...
The Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) recently celebrated this year’s PlanON award winners and announced the Project of the Year at their annual awards event held in Kitchener, Ontario...
The Town of Huntsville is now seeking submissions from qualified designers for designs of Secondary Residential Dwelling Units (SRDU). The selected designs will allow the Town of Huntsville to offer...
Architecture schools across Canada are coming together in the 2025–2026 academic year to teach design studios around a shared goal: to end housing alienation. This Superstudio meets the challenge to...
The housing affordability crisis is top of mind for many around the world, including Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, house prices in Toronto and Montréal had an average annual increase of 6.7 per...
To play is to engage in sport or recreation, or to act freely. In Edmonton, designers, builders, developers, and city planners are working hard to ensure that the word lives up to its...
The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) has announced dates for its 2025/26 season with the Canadian festivals taking place in November. To celebrate its 17th year, the ADFF will be showing...
This summer, wildfires have caused evacuations across Canada and recently forced thousands of people to flee their homes in Newfoundland and Labrador. Some of the biggest impacts are being felt in...
Toronto City Council has issued zoning and subdivision approvals for the first phase of Northcrest Developments’ 370-acre YZD community on the former Downsview Airport lands in the city. The July 25...
In Azure Magazine, Kelly Alvarez Doran and Mitchell May explore how Toronto’s car-centric design standards and loading regulations are reshaping the city’s retail landscape. Their analysis highlights...