Just in time for Canada Day, a coast-to-coast survey charts the design destinations redefining Canada’s cultural landscape—each one worth pulling over for. www.azuremagazine.com/article/azur...

In a Milan cloister, Demna’s Gucci Memoria stages a meadow that reframes the Madonna through a contemporary fashion lens, extending a long Italian artistic tradition into spatial form. www.azuremagazine.com/article/gucc...

As 3daysofdesign expands, Copenhagen Design Week is shifting from trade fair to cultural platform—prioritizing exchange, experimentation and dialogue over commerce alone. www.azuremagazine.com/article/cope...

“Global Convenience” by Trevor Wheatley and Csom Dean, with Puncture, has transformed Toronto’s Harbourfront into a viral focal point, underscoring the global resonance of site-specific public art. www.azuremagazine.com/article/the-...

What do Knicks watch parties and victory celebrations reveal about the structural dimensions of public joy? A look at how collective expression intersects with public policy. www.azuremagazine.com/article/beyo...

In a Q&A, Quan Thai reflects on what makes a home queer, revisiting To•Be•Longing: Portraits of Queer Living, winner of the 2026 DesignTO Founder's Award. www.azuremagazine.com/article/quan...

OMA’s angular addition gives the New Museum a kindred counterpoint on the Bowery, its glass laminated with metal mesh forming a luminous, layered envelope. www.azuremagazine.com/article/nyc-...

Supersaturated hues like “Fierce Grape” are leaping from the locker room into the living room, signalling a new era of high-impact colour in furniture design. www.azuremagazine.com/article/mila...

In Milan, brands like Margraf, Fisher & Paykel and Grohe turned earth, wind, fire and water into immersive displays, reframing elemental forces as drivers of material and spatial experimentation. www.azuremagazine.com/article/5-in...

From a park to a parkade, a cottage to a high-rise, the 2026 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture spotlight design excellence across typologies by some of Canada’s leading firms. www.azuremagazine.com/article/2026...

In Chicago, Yves Behar discusses his new furniture system, Peaks, and reflects on how shifting tech cultures — and even Burning Man — are reshaping the evolving workplace. www.azuremagazine.com/article/inte...

From tactile surfaces to sculptural silhouettes, five new hardware collections show how small-scale interventions can recalibrate a room. Each turns functional touchpoints into deliberate design statements. www.azuremagazine.com/article/5-ha...

At Milan Design Week, Italy’s design legends showed their staying power, as B&B Italia, Poliform and peers reaffirmed the country’s enduring influence on global furniture. www.azuremagazine.com/article/ital...

In Vancouver, LightForm rejects excess for an edited selection of luminaires staged within a dark, residentially scaled interior by LittleGiant Studio. www.azuremagazine.com/article/ligh...

At Milan Design Week, low-cost launches earned high praise even as ultra-luxury pieces drew admiration, revealing how democratic design and exclusivity share the same stage. www.azuremagazine.com/article/mila...

Faye Toogood, Stephen Burks, Chiara Andreatti and Jay Osgerby reflect on the creative processes shaping their latest Milan introductions, revealing the thinking behind each launch. www.azuremagazine.com/article/desi...

In a serpentine folly, Lanza Atelier reimagines brick as a medium of play, as founders Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo discuss with Yuki Sumner. www.azuremagazine.com/article/lanz...

As generative A.I. accelerates design production, Milan Design Week’s archives underscore the value of process in all its arduous glory — and the responsibility to preserve it. www.azuremagazine.com/article/gene...

Across Copenhagen, independent collectives, heritage brands and cultural institutions stake out new territory during 3daysofdesign, reshaping the city’s design landscape inside and beyond the fair’s official frame. www.azuremagazine.com/article/azur...

As Global marks its 60th anniversary with a new Chicago showroom, president and CEO Joel Feldberg reflects on sustaining a family-run furniture brand across generations and markets. www.azuremagazine.com/article/glob...

At NeoCon 2026, texture takes the lead as carpet tiles and vibrant textiles emerge as defining elements, signalling a renewed focus on softness, tactility and material expression in contract design. www.azuremagazine.com/article/neoc...

At NeoCon, Prostoria revisits Croatian modernism through 20 new furniture pieces that honour architect Vjenceslav Richter’s legacy, translating his ideas into contemporary form. www.azuremagazine.com/article/neoc...

In Victoria, Scott & Scott Architects transform the site of a derelict structure into a refined modern home for a designer couple, reframing absence as architectural opportunity. www.azuremagazine.com/article/scot...

“Like its counterparts in Toronto, Vancouver, London, Lisbon, Dubai and Dushanbe, Houston’s new Ismaili Center proudly conveys both cultural specificity and cosmopolitanism,” writes @novakovicto.bsky.social. www.azuremagazine.com/article/hous...

Mystical lanterns, Pritzker-level seating, unforgettable quilts and furniture made from abandoned fishing equipment are all among our 2025 favourites. www.azuremagazine.com/article/top-...

Legendary architect Frank Gehry has passed away at the age of 96. In tribute, we revisit a 2003 profile by Adele Freedman.

North of Brooklyn strikes back with a two-storey location that references childhood movie nights and classic Italian furnishings.

Pearson Lloyd co-founder Luke Pearson reflects on an emerging paradigm for material efficiency — and sufficiency.

My curatorial debut! Building Value(s) was staged at @azuremagazine.bsky.social's Human/Nature conference in late October. A meditation on demolition, preservation and the value of our buildings — whether expressed in carbon and collective memory.

Brilliant representation by Giaimo of the embodied carbon wasted in the demolition of perfectly good buildings in Toronto to build bigger buildings. A thousand houses worth of carbon. @azuremagazine.bsky.social #human/nature

“In the open dining hall and refectory, the simple wood cladding and carefully proportioned window openings create an energetic yet calming ambiance, while the tall, slanted ceiling fosters an almost cathedral-like setting.”

Our new Climate Issue explores Toronto’s groundbreaking tall timber projects, Mexico’s revitalized public spaces, Thailand’s elephant architecture and much more. www.azuremagazine.com/article/out-...

In the woods north of Toronto, a barn for the 21st century. My @azuremagazine.bsky.social cover story on Koffler Scientific Reserve by Montgomery Sisam Architects. www.azuremagazine.com/article/koff...

From a farming village in rural China, the late Turenscape founder charted an inspiring path to the summit of global design.

An @azuremagazine.bsky.social tribute to one of my heroes, Kongjian Yu, who I was lucky to spend a couple of hours with last year.

A newly minted Toronto Urban Design Award winner, 1120 Ossington proves that a simple, boxy building can be beautiful — and deeply humane.

"Although the homes are configured as compact micro-units, the lack of double-loaded interior corridors allows every suite to be a dual aspect unit — a rarity, unfortunately, for North American apartments — with natural light coming in from two sides."

. @novakovicto.bsky.social rounds up the Aga Khan Awards: www.azuremagazine.com/article/the-...

The 35-room retreat tempers its location in the centre of the city’s busy Entertainment District with spa-like luxuries like a Japanese Toto toilet. #Tiff50

Designed by Los Angeles firm JFAK, the vibrant shelter and transitional housing project is big-hearted and full of hope.

My debut in @azuremagazine.bsky.social is a look at the new Biidaasige Park, the incredible product of an incredible nature reclamation/reinvention project led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates at the mouth of the Don River in #Toronto. (Subscribers only) www.azuremagazine.com/article/biid...

“Just outside the Bosnian town of Gradačac, the House for Five Women is immediately distinguished by the vividly textured patchwork of bold colours that adorns its second-storey facade,” writes @novakovicto.bsky.social.

We praise “culturally responsive” design, even when we know almost nothing about the cultures it’s responding to. Lately, I’ve started to think of architectural criticism as its own type of diaspora. In @azuremagazine.bsky.social, one of my more intimate pieces: www.azuremagazine.com/article/hous...

A new mass-timber office building near Basel, Hortus delights in the details. Its completion sees Herzog & de Meuron making a bold new investment in green architecture.

📚 #B2BReadingList 🏆 Language Barrier — @azuremagazine.bsky.social Sydney Shilling explores why architecture has become disconnected from public discourse—and how the profession can re-engage. 🗣 “A perfect example of modern trade writing.” 🔗 zurl.co/2vlxB #B2BReadingList#NMAB2B #Architecture

www.azuremagazine.com/article/pari... @azuremagazine.bsky.social

The temporary shelter for women fleeing domestic violence is thoughtfully integrated into its surroundings, facilitating its residents’ transition with dignity.

Toronto-based designer Reza Nik creates a welcoming multi-purpose installation that gives the Art Gallery of Burlington a friendly public face.

really nice stuff 👌

Toronto-based architect Tyler Sharp reflects on reinvigorating a century-old practice and honing a specialty in adaptive libraries that combine contextual sensitive with surprising flair.