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A Brave New Hotel Debuts in Berlin
The guestbook, or visitor log, is a staple of a traditional hotel experience. Within its pages, visitors can vent about missing bottles of complementary shampoo or come down hard on a snoring...
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The Ontario Science Centre: Now, Then and What Comes Next
The closure last week of the Ontario Science Centre came as a shock. Though there were clear indications the Ontario government has long been planning to shutter the beloved institution, this final,...
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Ghost Rivers: Uncovering Baltimore’s Hidden Landscapes
This spring, I found myself kneeling in the centre of a busy four-lane intersection in Baltimore as trucks and honking traffic roared past. Sheltered by a tight circle of road cones and a diligent...
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In Rural Quebec, Espace Péribonka Bridges the Centuries
Some 200 kilometres north of Quebec City, the village of Péribonka sits on a picturesque site at the mouth of its eponymous river, which spills into a bay on the shores of Lac Saint-Jean. And while...
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“The Place Where Architecture Was Invented.” Emilio Ambasz on His Casa de...
Emilio Ambasz is getting his due. The Argentinian architect is the subject of Green Over Gray, a film by Francesca Molteni and Mattia Colombo debuting at Toronto’s ICFF film festival that dives into...
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The Ontario Science Centre Played an Airport on “Station Eleven.” The Show’s...
When Station Eleven, the television adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic 2014 novel, originally aired during the winter of 2021, it felt eerily familiar — and not just because the...
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Scenes from the AZ Awards 2024 Gala
On Friday, June 21, AZURE celebrated the winners and finalists of the 14th annual AZ Awards. Taking place at the Evergreen Brick Works, the AZ Awards 2024 Gala gathered architects, designers,...
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10 Can’t-Miss Architecture & Design Events This Summer
Trade show season has come to an end, the school year has wrapped up, and Azure’s Human/Nature climate conference is still a few months away, but there are still plenty of ways to engage with...
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Keynotes, Panels, Workshops: Previewing AZURE’s Human/Nature Conference
On October 24 and 25, architects, urbanists, policy-makers and designers of all stripes are set to converge in downtown Toronto. Taking place at the Waterfront Campus of George Brown College, the...
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A Transitional Housing Development is 3D Printed on an Alberta Reserve
Roughly 12 months after breaking ground, the largest 3D printed housing development in Canada, Kakatoosoyiists, or Star Lodges in Blackfoot, is ready to welcome 16 members of the Siksika Nation in...
View ArticleSummer Flash Sale: 40% Off For Two Weeks
Time to catch up on your Azure summer reading! For two weeks only, we’re offering 40% off subscriptions and single copies of Azure. From trailblazing design innovations to spectacular structures and...
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ECAL Students Design Turbines that Harness the Winds of Fogo Island
One gusty evening in late October 2022, a group of design students and teachers from ECAL, the University of Art and Design Lausanne, reached Fogo Island. Like many before them, they were glad to...
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Hospitality Meets Home Comfort in a Quebec Ski Chalet
Catalyzed in part by the shift from hotels to home rental services like Airbnb and Vrbo, hospitality spaces have evolved to feel increasingly residential. Yet, when a Quebec couple approached local...
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In Porto, Student Housing from a Prefabricated Kit of Parts
Rightly or not, prefabricated buildings have a reputation for being boxy, boring and repetitive. None of those words describe Porto’s Hoso tower, a 13-storey student residence immediately...
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Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral Unveils a Subtle Addition
Since the year 930, a church dedicated to St. Vitus has stood on the site. That year, a modest romanesque rotunda was built to honour the saint — in light of the fact that the Duke of Bohemia had...
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An Aquatic Complex at Home on the Slovenian Mountainside
For all the thrill and community-building excitement of sport, the infrastructure that supports it can be a sprawling mess — from the moats of parking that surround suburban hubs to blockbusting...
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After the Flood: Rethinking Toronto’s Urban Infrastructure
By 11 am, our ceiling was leaking. And just as we finished shuffling desks to avoid the stream of water, the power went out. Even as I write from a darkened, empty office, I feel reasonably lucky....
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5 Modern Sofas That Maximize Relaxation
Often the centrepiece of the living room, a well-designed modern sofa can easily elevate everything from quiet movie nights to boisterous social gatherings. Here, we’ve rounded up five distinct sofa...
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A South African School Makes the Most of Minimal Resources
In Canada, building a school costs tens of millions of dollars. As post-COVID inflation has raised the price of labour and materials by as much as 20 per cent, now more than ever, architects need to...
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In Suburban Belgrade, a Lantern of a Mid-Rise
Throughout Serbia and across much of southeastern Europe, unfinished homes are a common sight. Whether stalled for lack of funds, left intentionally incomplete as part of a tax avoidance strategy, or...
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