This article appeared in its original form in the December 18, 2025 edition of the OAA News and continues to be updated with new information. Following a 2024 review, significant amendments to the...
How do we build homes to withstand the impacts of climate change? That’s the question, and 600 local students are busy answering. These students are taking part in a unique opportunity offered by the...
With the support of OAA’s Practice Resource Committee and legal counsel, PT.12 Residential Clients (Small projects) has been refocused on single detached dwellings although much of the content is...
As architects, designers and city builders, we spend our days thinking about the systems that make cities work: how a tree canopy cools a sidewalk; how a cycling route can be safe and continuous; how...
Architecture schools across Canada are coming together in the 2025–2026 academic year to teach design studios around a shared goal: to end housing alienation. This Superstudio meets the challenge to...
The housing affordability crisis is top of mind for many around the world, including Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, house prices in Toronto and Montréal had an average annual increase of 6.7 per...
This summer, wildfires have caused evacuations across Canada and recently forced thousands of people to flee their homes in Newfoundland and Labrador. Some of the biggest impacts are being felt in...
Pro-Demnity has provided many articles and Bulletins encouraging the use of the readily available standard forms of contract for the provision of architectural services provided by the OAA. Failure to...
This week, 25 years after the launch of the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) first version of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, the council has announced the...
Wildfires and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, and it’s time to rethink how we design and build our homes and buildings to endure extreme climate events. At Designing for Fire...