Elsa Lam

A redeveloped pier offers recreational and museological space connecting downtown Nelson, BC, to its waterfront.

At the eastern edge of Vancouver's Granville Island—a dense tangle of industrial buildings rendered into a lively marketplace and artisan hub in the early 1980s—a place of quiet stands out. This building, like many of its neighbours, is clad in corrugated metal and assembled from shipping containers. But a gently uplit wood slat wall, fronted by a spray of ornamental grasses, hints at something different inside.

Every two years, the prestigious Governor General’s Medals in Architecture recognize and celebrate outstanding design in recently built projects by Canadian architects. Here are this year’s winners.

Last February, Canadian Architect was invited to Spain’s Castellón province to attend Time of Spain, an initiative co-hosted by the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER), which represents 90 percent of the country’s producers, and the Spanish government’s Institute for Foreign Trade. The event was meant to draw attention not just to the Spanish tile […]

2026 Governor General’s Award juror Colin Ripley discusses how this year’s winners confront global debates with seriousness and ambition.

Sarah Bonnemaison reviews two books: Colin Ripley's The House is (Not) a Prison: On the Queerness of Architecture and Milena Charbit's Architectures lesbiennes: Subversions du lien, de l’intime et de l’espace.

This year’s exhibition at the Venice Art Biennale explores the relationship of buildings to the natural world.

The University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape inhabits—and transforms—the city’s former Nova Tower.

An Indigenous Student Centre at Keyano College, in the centre of Fort McMurray, aims to uplift the area’s many First Nations.

25 years after a landmark book examined the absence of women in Canadian architecture, a recent symposium asks: what has improved, and where are we still stuck?