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Toronto-based Dream approached Ottawas Multifaith Housing Initiative last June about a partnership for the development competition.

Parliament took too long to respond to the protests. Further action could require following the principles of the Silver Covenant Chain

The Symposium focused on Indigenous representation, narratives, and collaborations, with sessions related to two themes: Making Room for New Indigenous Voices on the Leading Edge of Architecture, and Practice and Collaborations: Indigenous / Non-Indigenous Co-Design and Building with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Communities. A full report on the Symposium was published in September. The […]

Native American belts made of wampum shells have long fulfilled a diplomatic purpose, writes Ruth B. Phillips – and as such are very much a living art

For Immediate Release This afternoon, 90 activists representing Food & Water Watch, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Two Row and other members of the Stop Danskammer Coalition took to the water to protest the Danskammer fracked gas plant expansion proposal currently under review by the New York State Siting Board. Activists deployed the historic sloops Woody Guthrie and Clearwater in a multiple hour on-water protest against the proposal. The proposal currently under review is from Wall Street-b...

Copy The rising popularity of mass timber products in Canada and the United States has led to a rediscovery of fundamentals among architects. Not least Indigenous architects, for whom engineered wood offers a pathway to recover and advance the building traditions of their ancestors. Because timber is both a natural, renewable resource and a source of forestry jobs, it aligns with Indigenous values of stewardship and community long obscured by the 20th century’s dominant construction practices...

Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced - Canadian Architect By Mar 15, 2021 The functionality, beauty and diversity of wood is illustrated in the wide range of projects that won this year’s awards. With an increasing focus on renewable materials and net-zero buildings, the use of wood is a solution embraced by many of the world’s best architects and engineers. Share Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced Ottawa, ON, February 22, 2021 – Wood Design & Building maga...

Article content In a recently published Quillette article, political science Prof. Frances Widdowson described the difficulties that Canadian university administrators face when they seek to “Indigenize” their schools. Everyone in academia seems to agree that Indigenization is an urgent task, but the particulars are typically ill-defined. As Widdowson reports in a newly published book, these efforts at Indigenization (sometimes referred to as “decolonization”) comprise a com...

Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced By Wood Design & Building magazine   has announced the winning projects from the international Wood Design & Building Awards program. This year,  16 Canadian firms received awards across six categories. The program recognizes the outstanding work of visionaries around the world who inspire excellence in wood architecture. SoLo, Soo Valley, British Columbia by Perkins & Will won an Award of Merit in...