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Bosco Verticale, The World's First Vertical Forest
Architecture and Design

Bosco Verticale, the world's first vertical forest

Vertical forests and vertical agriculture have long been dreamed of to help meet the need for urban food production and green space, but nothing ever got past the blueprints. Bosco Verticale in Milan is the first to break ground. Canadian cities are relatively clean, green and few are severely overpopulated. Even in…

Vale Inco Living With Lakes Centre
Architecture and Design

Perkins + Will Named One of 2013's most innovative companies in architecture world wide.

Congratulations to Perkins + WIll for securing their spot on Fast Company's list of the top ten most innovative architecture firms in the world. Having admired their work on numerous occasions we are not at all surprised that Perkins + Will made the Fast Company list of the world's top ten most innovative companies…

The VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre
Architecture and Design

The VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre

Designed to exceed LEED Platinum status, architects Perkins + Will are pursuing the Living Building Challenge with the The VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre. The 19,000 square foot VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre creates a harmonious balance between architecture and landscape from a visual and…

A building made from foam and steel structural insulated pane
Products and Materials

A new high performance wall system makes inroads into the Ottawa construction market

With the help of The Healthiest Home in Ottawa, a couple in Aylmer, Quebec are the first in the National Capital Region to build a home with an innovative wall panel system from a U.S. company called K-Tect. Brian Allemekinders and Deidre Yukich say that despite their new home being twice the size of their previous…

Chicago green roof
Urban planning

Toronto bylaw to mandate green roofs

Toronto will soon see an explosion of green space in the downtown core as residential and commercial buildings comply with new bylaws. In the process we will see a cooler city, cleaner air, cleaner water and lower utility costs. All that and a great place. Green roofs on downtown office buildings It's becoming…