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Design Quarterly

UVIC student complex certified passive house

The first of two buildings in the University of Victoria’s (UVic) new Student Housing and Dining (SHD) complex is now Passive House certified.
Uvic student housing

Design Quarterly

The Sngequ House student complex opens at UVic

A new student housing complex is open at the University of Victoria (UVic), the university’s largest capital infrastructure project to date.
The Library Parcel

Canadian Apartment Magazine

A model for inclusive, sustainable housing

A behind-the-scenes look at Dream LeBreton's new mixed-use residential project underway in downtown Ottawa, known as the "Library Parcel."
Wallace Emerson Community and Child Care Centre

REMI Network

Toronto’s Wallace Emerson Community and Child Care Centre breaks ground

The Wallace Emerson Community and Child Care Centre broke ground this week at the site of the future 20-acre Galleria on the Park community.
community centre

REMI Network

Design revealed for Ontario’s first net-zero community centre 

The 95,000-square-foot facility will achieve net zero status through energy efficient design and renewable energy systems.
campus

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Campus high-rise brings health to new heights

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
interior design public

Design Quarterly

Perkins and Will acquires Penoyre & Prasad

Global architecture and design firm Perkins and Will has acquired Penoyre & Prasad, based in London, United Kingdom.
SFU stadium fast epp

Construction Business

SFU breaks ground on outdoor stadium

Construction has begun on a new stadium at Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Burnaby Mountain campus. Chandos Construction is building the project.

Design Quarterly

Perkins+Will marks 10 years as greenest employer

Perkins+Will celebrates its 10-year milestone named as one of Canada's Greenest Employers by Canada’s Top 100 Employers 2018 competition.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Bank of Canada HQ gets energy-saving revamp

An invisible second skin was a core component of the energy-saving, heritage-sensitive intervention at the Bank of Canada complex.

Design Quarterly

Understanding future mobility and design impacts

The advent of self-driving vehicles are now underway, ushering in one of the biggest changes to cities that we will see in our lifetime.

Design Quarterly

USGBC adopts building resilient rating standard

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has formally adopted RELi, a building resilience rating standard, which will soon become a global rating system.

Design Quarterly

Guide for NLT design and construction a first

A new comprehensive guide on Nail-Laminated Timber (NLT) with detailed expert advice is now available for Canada’s design and construction community.

Canadian Property Management

Marine Gateway wins ULI Global Award

Marine Gateway, a major transit-oriented development in Vancouver, has won an Urban Land Institute 2017-2018 Global Award for Excellence.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Albion Library first with trans-friendly signage

The new Albion Library, opened earlier this summer, is the first of Toronto’s 102 branches to introduce gender-neutral washrooms.

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.

Design Quarterly

Perkins+Will celebrates Evergreen Line opening

Global architecture and design firm Perkins+Will celebrates the official opening of the Evergreen Line, the 11-kilometre extension to Metro Vancouver’s SkyTrain system that connects the