When working with a historic building, developers can add value by expanding it or by enhancing its character, two strategies that are often in conflict.

KPMB Architects, Diamond Schmitt Architects, HDR Architecture, and Stantec Architecture designed a new hospital that would better serve patients’ happiness and well-being.

A group of recent projects demonstrates that true universal design goes beyond mere accessibility.

Architects Luc Bouliane embraced the challenges and opportunities of the site—the narrow lot sits due north, in the shadow of a low-rise apartment building—to balance spatial complexity and economic simplicity.

It’s an urban oasis, an indoor landscape, and an effective solution to brand a university campus otherwise lost in the chaos of downtown Toronto. Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with local firm Zeidler Partnership Architects, Ryerson University’s new Student Learning Centre is an audacious bid to redefine the concept of an inner-city student commons. “The program is amazingly open,” says project architect Michael Cotton, of Snøhetta’s New York office. “It’s almost like a 10-story lobby. Sometimes we call it a library without books.”