Forma Tower, a new mixed-use development that comprises residential accommodation, commercial offices and retail and public spaces, will soon be built in Toronto.
Tag: Metal
StudioAC has introduced Everden, its new single-family residence. The aim was to create a contemporary home, unique and personal to the homeowners, while still having cues to the traditional ideas of “house”. What followed...
A new air terminal in Rouyn-Noranda city in Quebec embraces the city’s identity as lying “between fault and forest” with wood, metal, and glass.
Moriyama & Teshima Architects (MTA) and Belanger Salach Architecture (BSA) selected Corten steel as a dominant material for Place des Arts (PdA), built in Sudbury, Ontario, to give the centre a glowing, orange hue.
Adaptive reuse of historic buildings has remained a consistent architectural trend over the past two decades and beyond, with open space being a centrepiece of the design as older factories and warehouses with open...
Innovations in drywall finishing
(07/11/2022)
Drywall finishing is an art form. It requires a well-trained and practiced tradesperson as well as the right tools to achieve beautiful, long-lasting results.
Researchers at Purdue University, Indiana, have developed a treatment to infuse a hardened metal surface with naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides. The technology is expected to create a hard metal surface that kills bacteria trying...
The Vancouver City Council has unanimously approved Kohn Pedersen Fox’s (KPF’s) design for the 601 West Pender Street project. Sensitive in both scale and materiality, the building replaces a six-storey parking structure in the...
Sydney to get world’s tallest hybrid timber tower
(06/29/2020)
Software company Atlassian plans to build the world’s tallest hybrid timber building for its new headquarters in the tech precinct of Central Station, Sydney, Australia. The tower will be 180-m (590-ft) high.
Galvanized reinforcing steel in precast concrete
(05/27/2020)
Hot-dip galvanizing has been applied to reinforcing steel in concrete used for precast panels, barriers, and bridge decks since the early 1970s. While new technologies have surfaced in decades past, none have matched the...
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