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We humans long for daylight, a view of greenery, and a sense of connection. Yet today, transparent building envelopes seem less in demand. Instead of granting views in and out, we create retreats. What forms of transparency remain desirable amid social uncertainty and urban densification? And do transparent or translucent envelopes still make sense when contemporary(...)
Detail 12 2025 : Transparency translucency
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We humans long for daylight, a view of greenery, and a sense of connection. Yet today, transparent building envelopes seem less in demand. Instead of granting views in and out, we create retreats. What forms of transparency remain desirable amid social uncertainty and urban densification? And do transparent or translucent envelopes still make sense when contemporary energy concepts are applied? Light, air, and sun are no longer universally welcome. The spaces behind the climate envelope must be protected from solar gains and heat loss. Limited opening ratios, smart building technology, and algorithm-driven facade design have become the norm. In such scenarios, people are treated as disruptive elements, better kept passive. Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal show that another way is possible. Working with 51N4E in Brussels, Lacaton & Vassal recently extended a residential block in the Peterbos district using their familiar approach: adding new winter gardens. Transparent and translucent sliding panels alternate, while curtains provide shade or privacy when needed. The result is adaptable space that responds to changing conditions – yet always leaves the final decision to the human user. A drawn curtain can create a sense of withdrawal, but it can just as easily be opened again
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Pour ce 63e numéro de The Funambulist, nous nous sommes associé·es à Myriam Amri, anthropologue et artiste tunisienne avec qui nous « Suivons l’Argent ». Nous nous immérgeons dans les méandres du système capitaliste et remontons à ses nœuds centraux : la propriété, la terre, le capital et la classe. Nous analysons comment l’argent est au cœur des projets coloniaux et(...)
The Funambulist n.63 : Suivons l'argent
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Pour ce 63e numéro de The Funambulist, nous nous sommes associé·es à Myriam Amri, anthropologue et artiste tunisienne avec qui nous « Suivons l’Argent ». Nous nous immérgeons dans les méandres du système capitaliste et remontons à ses nœuds centraux : la propriété, la terre, le capital et la classe. Nous analysons comment l’argent est au cœur des projets coloniaux et impériaux, mais aussi comment la souveraineté et la libération de notre imaginaire monétaire peuvent être des outils d’émancipation.
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Azure 314 : Houses
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What’s inside: fabulous flooring, tiles for miles, hospitality hardware, lighting for every room and more. The AZURE Houses issue returns in 2026 with stunning, innovative residential projects from Canada and around the world. Plus, we take a look at that seeming relic of the past: the mall!
Azure 314 : Houses
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What’s inside: fabulous flooring, tiles for miles, hospitality hardware, lighting for every room and more. The AZURE Houses issue returns in 2026 with stunning, innovative residential projects from Canada and around the world. Plus, we take a look at that seeming relic of the past: the mall!
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"Now, and Then” is a nice elliptical phrase, never standing on its own — inconclusive in an expansive kind of way. It can be read to mean “occasionally,” as in — now and then I have a craving for raw oysters. It can be understood comparatively: this is now and that was then or it can be read as a double state of mind, considering what we are doing now and what took place(...)
Border Crossings 169 : Now, and then
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"Now, and Then” is a nice elliptical phrase, never standing on its own — inconclusive in an expansive kind of way. It can be read to mean “occasionally,” as in — now and then I have a craving for raw oysters. It can be understood comparatively: this is now and that was then or it can be read as a double state of mind, considering what we are doing now and what took place then. This is the way in which our topic for the current issue came to mind. It might also serve as an anchor in our rudderless time, to be consistently nautical, in that we can be engaged in the unavoidable present but we can also be assured that there is a history behind us — both bolstering, and dreadful, some of it we can draw and build on and much for which we ask to be forgiven.
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C magazine 162 : Tidal
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This issue begins from the tidal as literal image and metaphor for ceaseless movement and its force. We think alongside the inseparability of ocean and land, inspired by Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite’s idea of tidalectics that moves away from easy binaries—the ones that continually justify colonial and capital expansion. From Turtle Island to the Caribbean(...)
C magazine 162 : Tidal
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This issue begins from the tidal as literal image and metaphor for ceaseless movement and its force. We think alongside the inseparability of ocean and land, inspired by Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite’s idea of tidalectics that moves away from easy binaries—the ones that continually justify colonial and capital expansion. From Turtle Island to the Caribbean archipelago, Palestine, Central America, and Bidong Island in Malaysia, artists wade through interconnected and overlapping struggles across multiple shores, times, and material inheritances.
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How can architecture deliver on its promises when budgets are tight, tasks are pressing, and resources are limited? A new generation is rethinking the act of building: pragmatic, yet far from simplistic. By concentrating on what truly matters, they achieve unexpectedly inventive outcomes even under austere conditions. Standards, regulations, and established norms can(...)
Detail 1/2 2026 : Simply well built
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How can architecture deliver on its promises when budgets are tight, tasks are pressing, and resources are limited? A new generation is rethinking the act of building: pragmatic, yet far from simplistic. By concentrating on what truly matters, they achieve unexpectedly inventive outcomes even under austere conditions. Standards, regulations, and established norms can sometimes stand in the way of intelligent ideas – but they can also set them in motion. Building simply remains a complex field. In this issue, we hear from architects who have embraced the discipline of doing more with less.
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Les prophéties artistiques ouvrent des perspectives inédites et des brèches dans le temps pour faire tomber les évidences et interroger l’ordre des choses. Les artistes ont ainsi troqué les grandes utopies pour des visions fragmentaires, situées et sensibles. La conscience d’un futur qui se devine et se façonne dans le présent se révèle dans leur regard inquisiteur et(...)
Espace 142 : prophéties/ prophecies
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Les prophéties artistiques ouvrent des perspectives inédites et des brèches dans le temps pour faire tomber les évidences et interroger l’ordre des choses. Les artistes ont ainsi troqué les grandes utopies pour des visions fragmentaires, situées et sensibles. La conscience d’un futur qui se devine et se façonne dans le présent se révèle dans leur regard inquisiteur et dans les formes expressives de leurs pratiques plastiques et médiatiques. Ils et elles prennent ainsi le relais des oracles, des sibylles, des prophètes ou des chamans, à la fois en phase avec le réel et légèrement décalé·e·s, dans un positionnement qui confère à leurs relectures du monde une acuité particulière. Le dossier Prophéties réfléchit aux langages de l’art pour imaginer et pressentir l’avenir, aux rituels déployés pour réécrire l’histoire et à la notion même de croyance.
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This issue focuses on how architectural skills are deployed in entertainment to communicate design and form the backdrops for stories to play out. It includes articles on installations, exhibition designs, entertainment architecture, narrative projects, speculations on future human identities, video gaming, and memorial tombs – an international plethora of staged examples(...)
AD 01:95 Staged: Architecture for performance, exhibition, and fiction
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This issue focuses on how architectural skills are deployed in entertainment to communicate design and form the backdrops for stories to play out. It includes articles on installations, exhibition designs, entertainment architecture, narrative projects, speculations on future human identities, video gaming, and memorial tombs – an international plethora of staged examples of how architectural thinking can bring vitality to situations not usually perceived to be within the realms of traditional practice. The issue engages with popular culture, fictions, art, performance, technology, and architectural history and theory. Exploring the full spectrum of spatial propositions that architects can bring to staging events, the work featured is theatrical and exuberant, and the product of many collaborative architectural voices including curators, artists, performers, digital intelligences, fabricators, and writers.
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The first issue of 2026 opens with a tribute to the late Frank Owen Gehry (1929-2025). Larry Wayne Richards looks at how Frank’s legacy intersected with his hometown of Toronto, beyond the AGO and in-construction Forma towers; The editorial parses the news that the Ontario Place Protectors case is heading to the Supreme Court. A coalition is challenging the provincial(...)
Canadian Architect v.71 n.01 : February 2026
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The first issue of 2026 opens with a tribute to the late Frank Owen Gehry (1929-2025). Larry Wayne Richards looks at how Frank’s legacy intersected with his hometown of Toronto, beyond the AGO and in-construction Forma towers; The editorial parses the news that the Ontario Place Protectors case is heading to the Supreme Court. A coalition is challenging the provincial government’s ability to exempt the waterfront land from environmental and heritage requirements, and to broadly indemnify itself against civil litigation related to the development. This month’s cover story is the redevelopment of Toronto’s Union Station, a 14-year-long project led by NORR Architects & Engineers with heritage architect EVOQ Architecture. Pamela Young examines the comprehensive overhaul, which vastly increases and improves the public realm within Canada’s largest multi-modal transportation hub, equipping it to handle 130 million passengers annually.
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Log 10 : summer / fall 2007
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Observations on architecture and the contemporary city.
Log 10 : summer / fall 2007
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Observations on architecture and the contemporary city.
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