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Zeidler Partnership Architects of Toronto and Snøhetta, based in Oslo and New York, have teamed up to design a new Student Learning Centre for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto.

Not yet 45, the Canadian-born, Norway-based architect Todd Saunders has already built an impressive international career. Last week, he spoke at the University of Toronto about his Fogo Island project as well as his works – past and present – around the world.

In his new book Living with Modernity, Award-winning Dutch photographer Iwan Baan poetically explores two major architectural cities built in the 1960s – Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia and Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh.

Next week, Toronto’s Reel Artists Film Festival brings the work of such brilliant creators as Wanda Koop, Pipilotti Rist, Sol LeWitt and Ai Weiwei to the big screen.

Samantha Lynch of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the winner of this year’s Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners, a prestigious $34,000 annual award by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Bjarke Ingels Group has announced yet another major competition win. Along with TNT Nuuk, Rambøll Nuuk and Arkitekti, the Copenhagen/New York firm has been selected to build the new National Gallery of Greenland in Nuuk.

Canadian superstar, author and artist Douglas Coupland spoke at the Conversations in Design symposium held last week in Toronto as part of the Interior Design Show. Here’s what he had to say about modern life.

Starting tomorrow, and running until January 25, is Paris’s Maison&Objet. The mega-show covers off all types of indoor and outdoor home furnishings and accessories, including coat hooks, salad bowls, and novelty coffee mugs. Here are eight reasons to check out the show.

Corian boards may come and go, but nothing looks, smells or feels quite as good as a well-used, solid wood chopping board. Despite its basic design, the lowly board is still prone to retooling and reinvention. Here are eight recent variations on the kitchen classic.

Losanges, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s stunning new carpet collection for manufacturer Nanimarquina, launches next week at Maison&Objet.