Three architecture teams have been selected as finalists of an international competition to design the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.Photo courtesy Develop Nova Scotia Three finalists have been selected from an…
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Derek Newby is the new principal at Diamond Schmitt
Derek Newby, LED AP, CPHD, joins Diamond Schmitt Architects’ Vancouver office as principal.Photo © Alastair Bird Derek Newby, LEED AP, CPHD, has returned to Diamond Schmitt Architects as the principal of its…
Katerra is North America’s largest mass timber producer
Katerra is North America’s largest end-to-end mass timber design, manufacturing, and construction firm.Photo courtesy Katerra Katerra has emerged as North America’s largest end-to-end mass timber design, manufacturing, and construction firm with the…
Trump reimposes tariffs on aluminum imports
President Donald Trump has imposed a 10 per cent tariff on some aluminum imports from Canada.Photo © BigStockPhoto.com In a controversial move, President Donald Trump has imposed a 10 per cent tariff…
B+H Architects reveal design for landmark hospital in China
B+H Architects have won an international competition to design the new Shenzhen Children’s Hospital and Science and Education Building, Shenzhen, China.Image courtesy B+H Architects B+H Architects have won an international competition to…
B+H Architects and mcCallumSather to design Ontario hospital
B+H Architects and mcCallumSather have been selected as the planning, design, and conformance (PDC) team for West Lincoln Memorial Hospital (WLMH), Grimsby, Ont., rebuild.Photo courtesy WLMH B+H Architects and mcCallumSather has been…
Ground breaks on Toronto’s tall wood tower
Ground breaks on T3 Bayside, an innovative mass timber office building at Toronto’s waterfront.Image courtesy Hines Construction has begun on the workplace component of the Bayside Toronto waterfront master-planned community with the…
Researchers develop treatment to prevent bacterial spread on metal surfaces
Researchers at Purdue University, Indiana, have developed technology to create a hard metal surface that kills bacteria that try to attach to the surface.Photo courtesy Purdue University Researchers at Purdue University, Indiana,…
Revealing the world’s largest underwater lab
Proteus, a state-of-the-art marine research project by Swiss designer Yves Béhar and fuseproject, is designed to be an International Space Station, underwater.Image courtesy fuseproject Aquanaut Fabien Cousteau and the Fabien Cousteau Ocean…
Top design firms criticize Autodesk for rising cost of BIM software
Several major United Kingdom-based design firms, such as Zaha Hadid Architects and Grimshaw Architects, have written an open letter to software company Autodesk citing their concerns over increasing costs and lack of…