Canadian Architect

Canadian Architect is a magazine aimed at architects and other professionals in the Canadian design field. It stands out as the only monthly design publication in Canada and has been consistently published since 1955. This national magazine highlights important architecture and design from all over the country, featuring articles that cover current practices, building technologies, and social issues impacting the field of architecture. Additionally, it serves as the official journal for the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

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2025 RAIC Gold Medal: Charting the Course

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

KPMB is one of Toronto and Canada’s leading design practices, a firm of influence and action. The four founding partners—Bruce Kuwabara, Thomas Payne, Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg—were senior associates in the studio of Barton Myers Associates. In 1984, Myers opened an office in Los Angeles, and in 1987 relocated his practice there to focus on American projects.
2025 RAIC Gold Medal: Community Champion

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

“What I’m into,” says Marianne McKenna, “is architecture as a game-changer for the institution you’re building for.” Her community-centred work has created Positive, lasting change for clients in Toronto, Montreal, New York City, and beyond. Here’s our interview with Marianne McKenna. Elsa Lam: Tell me about your early life and what brought you to architecture.
2025 RAIC Gold Medal: Ethics in Action

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

“I think you can’t be complacent as a citizen,” says Shirley Blumberg. It’s an ethical stance that she has brought to her work on projects at all scales at KPMB, as well as to pro bono advocacy initiatives. Here’s our interview with 2025 RAIC Gold Medalist Shirley Blumberg. Elsa Lam: Why don’t we start with your upbringing in South Africa? Shirley Blumberg: I was born in Cape Town, South Africa, which is stunningly beautiful.
RAIC 2025 Gold Medal: The Genius of Collaboration

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

As co-founders of KPMB Architects, Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg have shaped the trajectory of our practice and profoundly influenced the architectural landscape in Canada and beyond. Together with Thomas Payne, Marianne, Shirley, and I launched Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects in 1987, following our first collaborations as associates at Barton Myers Associates.
A Contributing Community

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

TEXT Ian ChodikoffPHOTOS Salina KassamIt has been nearly 12 years since the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada awarded His Highness the Aga Khan IV the RAIC Gold Medal, and 40 years since Bruno Freschi’s Ismaili Centre in Vancouver opened its doors for a then-fledgling Muslim community.
RAIC Awards: Original town site of Grand Falls

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

WINNER OF THE RAIC’S 2025 PRIX DU XXE SIECLELOCATION Grand Falls, NewfoundlandDESIGNER Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co.Grand Falls is remarkable for being among the first—possibly the first—garden cities created outside the United Kingdom at the beginning of the twentieth century.
RAIC Awards: Six Acres House and Studio

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

WINNER OF THE RAIC’S 2025 PRIX DU XXE SIECLEARCHITECT Wallbridge and ImrieLOCATION Edmonton, AlbertaThe architects Jean Louise Emberley Wallbridge (1912-1979) and Mary Louise Imrie (1918-1988) realized their Six Acres house and office in Edmonton in 1957. The work remains an important instance of Canadian modernism that aims to engage nature, nurture domestic comfort, and support creative life.
RAIC Awards: Yorktown Psychiatric Centre

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

WINNER OF THE RAIC’S 2025 PRIX DU XXE SIECLELOCATION Yorkton, SaskatchewanARCHITECT Izumi Arnott and SugiyamaKiyoshi Izumi’s design for the Yorkton Psychiatric Centre (1964) draws on his analysis of a predecessor: the Saskatchewan Hospital at Weyburn. When that psychiatric treatment facility opened in 1921, it was the largest building in the British Commonwealth. Izumi made extensive analysis of the Saskatchewan Hospital’s long, crowded, hard-surfaced corridors.
RAIC Awards: Set Pieces-Architecture for the Performing Arts in Fifteen Fragments

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

WINNER OF THE 2025 RAIC ARCHITECTURAL JOURNALISM AND MEDIA AWARDSpaces for gathering always imply or set up a performance. A ceremony, theater or music, a display, a dance, an encounter, a conversation. Great spaces amplify the power and effects of these expressions. What makes some spaces so well loved as to become icons while others fail to move us? How might architecture engage the body and trigger the senses? How does architecture create these enduring, embodied memories?
RAIC Awards: Western North York Community Centre

1 month ago | canadianarchitect.com | Elsa Lam

WINNER OF THE 2025 RAIC RESEARCH & INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE AWARDARCHITECT MJMALOCATION Toronto, OntarioIn 2017, the City of Toronto commissioned MJMA to design the Western North York Community Centre, a Net Zero Energy Aquatic Facility. As a demonstration project, the design aimed to validate the latest Toronto Green Standard near-zero emission goals for city-owned facilities, setting the standard for future recreation centres.