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Heady times for Chelten Homes as they reach goal as certified net-zero builders

It should come as no surprise that Chelten Homes would want to cement a reputation as certified net-zero builders. Anyone familiar with the Waterdown, Ontario, company would be the first to....

Bleutech Park, The First Digital Infrastructure City Of Its Kind In The World, Selects Las Vegas As Inaugural Site To Break Ground With $7.5 Billion Project

Bleutech Park Las Vegas will break ground in the Las Vegas Valley in December of this year as the first city in the world to boast a digital revolution in....

Singapore’s new 1.3 billion Jewel Changi Airport welcomes the world

Safdie Architects’ Jewel Changi Airport features world’s tallest indoor waterfall View of the Shiseido Forest Valley and HSBC Rain Vortex from Changi Airport Terminal 1 Upon setting foot into Jewel, visitors are greeted....

BIG AND PARTNERS UNVEIL OCEANIX CITY AT THE UNITED NATIONS

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group As part of UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda, floating cities non-profit OCEANIX, the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, BIG and partners propose a vision for the world’s....

CREATING A PATHWAY TO CLIMATE POSITIVE COMMUNITIES

By Charlotte Matthews, Director of Sustainability, Sidewalk Labs I love buildings. When I was eight years old my family moved to Hong Kong, one of the world’s most amazing cities. But....

Safdie Architects to Set New Standard for Community-Centric Airport Design With the Opening of Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore in 2019

Features include an expansive indoor forest, the world’s tallest indoor waterfall, tree-top walking trails, restaurants, retail, and a variety of gathering places Jewel weaves together an experience of nature and the....

PLUG-IN CITY 75

Inhabit the Facades Located in the heart of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, a stone’s throw away from La Seine river, this building of the 1970s is, like most buildings of this....

Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils the design of the proposed University of Toronto building

90 Queen’s Park provides an urban and cultural hub, bringing together nine previously dispersed departments—including the School of History, Music, Law, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies....

The Launch of “Burj Jumeira” – The New Icon to Dubai Skyline

Following a record-breaking 2018 and its completion of 13 different high-rise buildings that are 200 meters and more, Dubai – the well acclaimed “World’s Capital of Modern Architecture”, is back....

Celebrating seven successful years

It’s been an exciting whirlwind of activity since we started out, but we feel the best is yet to come. Please join us as the ride continues. As Ontario’s only magazine....

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