Katharine Logan

To design healthier buildings with smaller carbon footprints, firms are making systematic changes.

The wood-framed structure, perched atop a rocky bluff near Whistler Mountain, draws lessons from alpine architecture.

As Canada’s first purpose-built school for the integrative discipline of biomedical engineering, the new Gordon B. Shrum Building prioritizes collaboration.

The two-story house disregards the formal and compositional conventions of its context, while elevating locally common materials—stucco, regional cedar, and board-formed concrete—to give it a strong sense of fit.

Residential landscapes by Surfacedesign, Design Workshop, and LaGuardia Design Group repair the land, heal ecosystems, and look good while doing it.

Architects are marshaling new tools like AI and augmented reality to design the next generation of health-care environments.

Steel from a hospital slated for demolition is incorporated into the structure of a new fire station.

Combining cantilevered forms and vibrant color, the 12-story office building combines traditional Scandinavian aesthetics with forward-thinking sustainability features.

A focus on emissions rather than energy efficiency is making carbon-free retrofits possible.

The conversations, ranging from material exploration to mass customization, are complemented by photography of significant 21st-century buildings.