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Odami Finds Romance in a Toronto Shopping Mall
Are malls dying? In 2025, the long tail of the COVID pandemic and the ever-growing ubiquity of online shopping looms ominously over physical retail. Meanwhile, the persistent decline of department...
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Fisher & Paykel Opens a Capacious Experience Centre in Toronto
From the moment you step inside the Fisher & Paykel Experience Centre in the iconic Toronto Carpet Factory in Liberty Village, you immediately sense that this is not your typical showroom....
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SkLO Takes a Foray into Handblown Glass Furniture
In the Czech Republic, glass is more than a business. In the Lusatian Mountains, the earliest archaeological glassblowing sites date back some 800 years, with the region’s famed Bohemia Crystal...
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10 Products Embracing the Cherry Red Colour Trend
Roses are red, violets are blue, and cherries are particularly hot right now — at least according to the colour trend reports, that is. Dark cherry red, a deep crimson colour that first crossed our...
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Navigating Narratives: A Conversation with Joël León Danis, Athenea...
In 2022, Pouya Khadem, Sebastián López Cárdozo, Mai Okimoto, and Lauren Phillips founded Architecture Writing Workshop, a non-profit “platform for writers, practitioners, and academics — or anyone...
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Mexico’s Rubra Restaurant Joins the Pink Concrete Club
The first marker of a great restaurant is that it manages to cultivate a meaningful sense of arrival. Rubra, a culinary hotspot on Mexico’s Pacific coast designed by frequent collaborators Ignacio...
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4 Things to Add to Your Reading List This Black History Month (and Beyond)
1 Greatness Pascale Sablan, CEO of Adjaye Associates’ New York studio, did a Google search for the term “great architect.” The results overwhelmingly favoured white men. When she visited Google...
View ArticleAZ Awards: 15 Years of Designer Trophies
Every year, the AZ Awards commissions a designer, often a member of our illustrious jury, to create a one-of-a-kind trophy that winners take home at the AZ Awards Gala. It’s our way of reflecting the...
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Alison Brooks Designs a Zero Energy Cyclist Haven in Cambridge
Oftentimes, a city’s worst urbanism happens at the fringes. From highways and exurban sprawl to polluting heavy industries, the peripheries can easily become sites of neglect, with wealth, resources —...
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A Madrid Apartment Makes the Most of its Tiny Footprint
In a compact, narrow space, the natural temptation is to go minimal. After all, a busy clutter of forms, colours and design motifs would only emphasize spatial limitations, making for a cramped and...
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A Library Renovation in Chicago with an Open Heart
Before its transformation, the Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was typical of many similar institutions. Much used, well loved – but stuck in the past. Drab ceiling...
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Q&A: Gene Kansas on Preserving Black History in Atlanta
By nature, real estate development is not an altruistic business. Driven by profit as the primary metric for success, cultural preservation, community engagement and quality of space commonly take a...
View ArticleDeadline Extended for AZ Awards 2025!
Need a few more days? We’ve got you covered. The submission deadline for entries to the 15th anniversary edition of the annual AZ Awards has been extended to February 26, 2025. Make sure to log onto...
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Ringo Studio Sets Out to Bolster Steve Madden’s NYC Foot Traffic
Where Madelynn Ringo leads, shoppers follow. Over the past few years, the intrepid designer has worked with brands like Bala, Glossier and Our Place (all of which started out as e-commerce operations)...
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In Memoriam: Steven Levy, Canada’s Great Design Impresario
Steven Levy was an irrepressible force in the promotion of made-in-Canada ingenuity. As the co-founder of the One of a Kind Show, the Interior Design Show and many other platforms for homegrown and...
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5 Standouts from Stockholm Design Week 2025
While February can be a dreary month, it comes with a major consolation: Stockholm Design Week offers a dose of fun, colour and novelty that helps quell the winter blues — and ease us into the busy...
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Is the “Ecodistrict” the Future of North American Cities?
Across North America, cities are in crisis: With housing affordability increasingly out of reach for millions of residents, floods, fires and hurricanes make the devastation of climate change...
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17 Architecture, Design and Art Events to Bridge Winter and Spring 2025
With lectures by Shirley Blumberg, Konstantin Grcic and Rossana Hu, exhibitions celebrating hip hop culture, the immersive world of Do Ho Suh and architecture from the American South, and blockbuster...
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Shane Laptiste on Reframing Spatial Narratives in Montreal and Beyond
“How are the spatial experiences of community embodied today?” This question is at the heart of architect Shane Laptiste’s work. Through his award-winning practice SOCA, or the Studio of Contemporary...
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