With rich textures and unique inspirations – from nature to the built environment – these five modern rugs easily and effectively pull a room together.

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A look into the debates arising from Beyonce’s latest album, Cowboy Carter, and how they reveal the place-based policies that have historically divided communities.

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Register by May 31, 2024 to enter the Olympic Park Stadium Roof competition, which looks to creatively reuse and add value to all materials and structural components from the Montreal Olympic Stadium roof’s dismantling.

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This residential project thoughtfully preserves the building’s heritage while creating space for community.

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A journey exposing unmarked protected territories, spatial tensions and possibility for establishing common cultural ground.

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This Quebec office pays surprisingly elegant homage to the humble world of concrete, scaffolds and orange cones.

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69 finalists are announced and People’s Choice voting is now open!

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Peak, an impressive new addition to @ColomboDesignAM’s line up of 2024 hardware releases, is an extraordinary handle designed by globally recognized contemporary designer Patrick Jouin.

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'Aware: Architecture and Senses' is an exhibition that explores the connections between people and space, inviting visitors to experience and understand it for themselves.

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Designed by London firm SODA, the project thoughtfully preserves the building’s heritage while creating space for community.

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The Sten shelf turns the humble storage solution into a piece of sculptural wall art.

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While most of Canada's 41 million residents would likely struggle to name a single practicing Canadian architect, the discipline’s academics and theorists are even further removed from the public eye. David Fortin is an exception.

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'Just as place-based policies physically divided communities, our collective imaginations have been red-lined.' — Jay Pitter on Beyoncé the cultural geography of country in Azure Magazine. azuremagazine.com/article/the-cu…

Caring for those with dementia, an ever-growing demographic, requires a collective approach. Architectural typologies are emerging around the world to grant older adults unprecedented freedom.

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Sid Lee Architecture pays surprisingly elegant homage to the humble world of concrete, scaffolds and orange cones.

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This aquatic centre design is imbued with a sense of tranquility and kid-friendly adventure.

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Maison De Cartes, an exhibition open until June 2nd, proposes a module of construction for the crisis of our time: climate change.

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Ruché, designed by Inga Sempé for Ligne Roset, brings together hand craftsmanship and innovative machine work with a poetic result, highlighted by its undulating quilting which creates a series of welcoming curves.

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