Architecture & Design
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Niagara Welland Commons comes to light
Crafted into a mix of interconnected brick buildings circa 1970, Niagara Welland Commons brings natural light to a decades-old campus.
CondoBusiness
Condo design takes cue from commercial facilities
Designers and developers foresee a greater turn towards health and wellness in the condo design of tomorrow.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
How will campuses change because of COVID-19?
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.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Circadian lighting improves seniors’ daily routines
Circadian lighting plays a special role in facilities management as long-term care homes and schools increasingly look to enhance wellbeing among seniors and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
‘15-minute city’ making a comeback
As urban planners re-evaluate the way our cities were designed through the lens of today’s health and wellness needs, the concept of 'the 15-minute city' is making a comeback.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Blazing a trail for zero carbon in Nova Scotia
The zero carbon project marks an evolution in warehouses and, more broadly, the potential for a lower-emitting industrial sector.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Building better density key to future development
Dev Mehta, Senior Associate at Quadrangle, explains how building better density leads to healthier, happier occupants.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Virus hastens new tower at St. Michael’s Hospital
A much anticipated, and unfinished, addition to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto was fast-tracked to keep pace with a fast-moving pandemic.
CondoBusiness
Condo communities build up resilience in 2020
With always evolving guidelines and pandemic uncertainty, building resilience in condo communities is more important than ever.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Community centres redefined for a new era
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
CondoBusiness
Are condos prepared for climate change?
While many condos haven’t yet experienced the major effects of climate change, statistics and case studies foreshadow the impacts that could come.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Curating social spaces in 2020
Humans are naturally social creatures. So why shouldn’t our built environment be designed to accommodate and encourage this natural state of being?
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Working at home full time undesirable for most
The office remains a preferable environment for the majority of workers who find working from home every day an unfavourable option.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Reopening the workplace amid COVID-19 fears
Collaborative spaces will take on new importance as flexibility remains a key factor moving forward when reinventing and reopening the workplace.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
A new home for first responders in Delta, B.C.
The facility brings together a multi-purpose satellite fire station, a live-fire training building, and a municipal emergency operations centre.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Behind the design at Calgary’s SODO Residences
SODO Residences is a landmark new rental development located in Calgary’s trendy Beltline district, and a great example of where purpose-built rental design is moving.
Design Quarterly
Permacity: the next generation buildings
A2M shared their vision for the future of architecture – a concept called the permacity – at the Buildex architecture keynote in Vancouver.