architecture

Event: One of Canada’s first carbon-minimal campus spaces is now complete – and it was designed entirely by students

Media are invited to take a first look at Third Space Commons, UBC’s newest teaching and learning space that is one of Canada’s first institutional spaces designed to be near-zero embodied carbon. It’s also the first such building designed by students.

Apr 12, 2023

111 West 57, a supertall residential skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City

New book maps links between global finance and the places we call home

Architecture professor Matthew Soules is a thought-provoking artist, designer and author. His latest offering is a new book, Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin which tackles the impact of global capital on large cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Barcelona and New York. 

May 13, 2021

Liveable, walkable cities for the 21st century: UBC hosts world-renowned Danish planner Jan Gehl

Event: UBC hosts events with Copehnhagen’s Jan Gehl on the relationship between public spaces and civic society Date/Time:  Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2  – 3 p.m. lecture; 3:30 p.m. roundtable […]

Jan 24, 2011