Design
Canadian Facility Management & Design
York Recreation Centre revitalizes brownfield
With the development of the York Recreation Centre, the City of Toronto is serving a previously underserved community by using a previously underused site.
CondoBusiness
Toronto looks to boost kid-friendly condos
Draft guidelines designed to promote kid-friendly condos are poised for a two-year trial run after getting green-lit last week.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Diamond Schmitt on shortlist to design civic centre
Diamond Schmitt Architects has been placed on a shortlist of firms selected to design a new civic centre for Etobicoke, Ont.: Etobicoke Commons.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Architecture49 to design Halifax Infirmary reno
Architecture49 has been selected by Nova Scotia to design state-of-the-art operating rooms and interventional suites at the Halifax Infirmary.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Getting cozy with high-density occupancies
Accessibility, ventilation, noise mitigation and privacy have become key design concerns as office floor plans are configured, or reconfigured, to accommodate more people than past workspace norms.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Evergreen targets carbon neutrality with retrofit
Evergreen is targeting carbon neutrality in the retrofit of its heritage-designated kiln building at Toronto’s Brick Works site.
Construction Business
Climate data to be revamped for future codes
Historical climate data is losing relevance in Canada's model national building, energy, fire and plumbing codes as severe storms, drought and intense heat waves become more frequent.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ryerson reveals Centre for Urban Innovation design
Ryerson University has revealed the design for the new Centre for Urban Innovation, a research and commercialization hub to solve infrastructure issues.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ergonomic considerations for the design stage
When designing a workplace, it’s important to consider all aspects of ergonomics, productivity and accessibility.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
KPMG looks to clients in locating Vaughan office
When KPMG selected its new location, proximity to clients factored prominently, leading the growing professional services firm to set up shop in Vaughan.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
B.C.-based credit union makes a bold move
Coast Capital Savings recently relocated to new headquarters with freshly fit out interiors that reflect its quirky culture.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Design and construction skill shortages noted
Revit specialists and estimators have a commanding position in the labour market as the design professions actively embrace building information modelling (BIM) and the construction bid process grows more complex.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Bergeron Centre a model for fully integrated BIM
The use of building information modelling to develop the Bergeron Centre at York University earned the project a Canada BIM Council award.
CondoBusiness
Four IBI Group projects receive awards in Q4
IBI Group, the sixth-largest architecture firm in the world, received industry awards in the fourth quarter of 2016 for four of its Canadian projects.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Good acoustics, design no longer mutually exclusive
the building community is becoming more aware of the importance of acoustics at the same time that the industry is giving designers more options.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Survey finds link between office design, innovation
The presentation brought together findings from Gensler’s 2016 Workplace Survey and Design Forecast 2016, which looks ahead 10 years.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Quadrangle recognized for accessible design
Quadrangle's 100 Broadview Lobby was recently presented with a Silver Award for Architecture at the International Association for Universal Design Awards.
