The City That Said No to Google Is Now Building One of Canada’s Tallest Timber Towers
Quayside’s post-Sidewalk Labs reinvention trades smart-city surveillance for mass timber, Indigenous consultation and 2.5 acres of car-free public space.
Articles by
Serra Utkum Ikiz
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The City Doesn’t Sleep: Nighttime Urbanism and Architecture’s Daytime Bias
Cities reveal a second design brief once the sun goes down.
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The 9% Problem: Why Architecture Must Move Beyond Synthetic Waste
Recycling rhetoric falters when synthetic systems cannot be separated from rubble.
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Tectonic Veils: 5 Advanced Timber Systems and Breathable Wood Envelopes
What if timber’s real potential isn’t just strength or carbon metrics, but also its ability to creat e buildings that breathe and respond to their surroundings?
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Pantone’s Color of 2026: Cloud Dancer as Fresh Start or “Landlord Special?”
People around the world are cynical about this choice. After years of housing problems and economic stress, simple white feels lazy.
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The Nano Banana Effect: How Google’s Viral AI is Reshaping Architectural Visualization
Can Nano Banana Pro change the way we design buildings? Is it a tool for liberation, or the announce r of the end for the ArchViz profession?
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Not Your Average Commune: 4 Architectural Visions for Collective Living
Responding to environmental pressure, these speculative projects replace utopian rhetoric with spati al logic and environmental reality.
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Utopia, Now in Beta: Techno-Optimism and the Future as a Design Problem
Architects keep prototyping the future, but can we debug the world with design alone?
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Announcing the A+Awards’ Newest Juror — and the Architect Shaping Vitra Campus’ Latest Landmark
A+Awards juror Khushnu Panthaki Hoof helped realize Doshi’s final project, guiding its evolution fro m dreamlike sketch to carved, light-filled chamber.
