Azure Magazine

“We knew from the beginning that we wanted this to be mass timber,” says DIALOG’s Lindsay Duthie, describing the early ambitions for The Hive, a striking 10-storey office building that now graces a prominent site overlooking Vancouver’s False Creek Flats. Considering the height and scale of the 15,500-square-metre development, a mass timber structural sy...

At the beginning of a public joy excursion with unhoused youth from Eva’s Phoenix, two young men disappeared.

We were exploring a verdant botanical garden tucked beneath the edge of a sleepy suburban neighbourhood. The group c...

Toronto’s Mirvish Village was born in the 1960s from a failed attempt to build a parking lot for Honest Ed’s, the discount department store that once stood at the corner of Bloor and Bathurst streets. Seeking more space for his customers’ cars, “Honest” owner...

Completed in 2024, the striking factory by Davood Boroojeni Office has many sides: on one elevation, raw iron sheets convey the industrial nature of the building; on the other, masonry blocks articulate a friendly, almost residential character. A co...

Welcome to Design Calendar, a new monthly roundup thoughtfully assembled to help you find the architecture and design events worth knowing about now. While our Events section is always updated with listings from across the industry, this series offers a more curate...