Architecture Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

October 4, 2024

Uncovering the Past

In 1898, thousands of would-be millionaires flocked to the Klondike in search of gold. Yet for all its cultural resonance, the gold rush was a bit of a dud. Many miners left Yukon as quickly... More

August 23, 2024

Conserving Italy’s Tarot Garden for Generations to Come

For centuries, fortune tellers have used Tarot cards to probe questions of love, loss, family and finances. The 78-card decks originated in 15th century Italy, and were originally used to play card games. But over... More

June 18, 2024

Students Tackle Real-World Issues Through Capstone & Studio Design Projects

Every June, a graduating class walks across the convocation stage degree in hand and a mind brimming with ideas. For this year’s graduating Engineering and Design students, it wasn’t long ago that they presented and... More

Photo for the news post: Top 5 Robotics Innovation Stories of The Year

April 16, 2024

Stunning, Award-winning Design Meets Soul and Sustainability

Jutting horizontally from a cliff, with floor-to-ceiling windows that bathe its interior in light, the m.o.r.e Cabin seems to defy gravity. The off-grid cabin floats in the treetops on the shore of a lake at... More

September 3, 2021

Dinner in the Street

Dinner in the Street, a recently released handbook from the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, isn’t just forward-thinking — it’s a report on the future. Created with the help of recent Master of Architecture... More

June 15, 2021

A Residential School Reclaimed: Transforming Tragedy into Hope

The colossal, three-storey red brick building is surrounded by farm fields and prairie wetlands, overshadowing everything else on the outskirts of the Muskowekwan First Nation, a Saulteaux community in southeastern Saskatchewan. A long, elm-lined driveway leads... More

October 1, 2020

Digitizing Carleton

Professor Stephen Fai knew that the global switch to an online world amid a pandemic was an opportunity for innovation at Carleton University. As Director of the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), Fai leads a... More

September 15, 2020

Redesigning Retail

This past spring, Carleton University established an internal funding opportunity to support pioneering and time-sensitive research aimed at developing solutions to a variety of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Known as CU COVID-19 Rapid... More

February 10, 2020

Meet the Boreal Builders

In the summer of 2019, the Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek – Gull Bay First Nation (KZA-GBFN) began harnessing and utilizing renewable energy with its Giizis Energy solar storage micro grid facility – a first of its... More

October 7, 2019

Digital Cartographers

Canada’s National Capital Region is a whole lot bigger than most metropolitan areas. At nearly 5,000 square kilometres, it’s almost as large as Prince Edward Island. The National Capital Commission (NCC) owns more than 11... More

August 20, 2019

Developing Real-world Skills with Real Estate

You could say that real estate developers are project managers par excellence. Certainly they are entrepreneurs and risk-takers whose massive projects generate jobs and investment, and whose decisions shape the city, including the homes and... More