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AIA Canada Society has announced the recipients of its 2025 Design Awards. The annual awards program advances AIA Canada’s mission to promote architectural excellence and professional leadership...

The Toronto Green Standard (TGS) is Toronto’s sustainable design requirements for new private and City-owned developments, which consist of tiers of performance measures with supporting guidelines...

Premier Doug Ford’s government is taking another swipe at green standards while nixing a requirement for municipalities to build climate change goals into their official plans. The new changes would...

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming (MTCG) awarded a fixed price contract of $1.04 billion to Ontario Science Partners to design, build, finance and maintain a new...

Imagine if we embraced wood as the primary solution for everything we are capable of building tall. As Canada and industry mobilize to scale our national housing stock under Build Canada Homes, I...

Lara McKendrick has been named the new council president of the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA). An Ottawa-based Architect with 25 years of experience, she was elected to the one-year...

The 2026 SABMag Canadian Green Building Awards are now open for registration. Architects, designers, and builders are invited to showcase their innovative and sustainable projects. Eligible projects...

The University of Toronto’s newest venue for research and instruction in ecology and environmental biology aims to reimagine the future of school design while demonstrating how a project can combine...

As architects, designers and city builders, we spend our days thinking about the systems that make cities work: how a tree canopy cools a sidewalk; how a cycling route can be safe and continuous; how...

Last month, Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works became a global hub of sustainable design thinking. From architects and urban planners to industrial designers, activists, fabricators and civic leaders...

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