In the Media
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Vancouver SunChinatown groups back controversial Keefer Street development plan
School of Community and Regional Planning's PhD candidate Louisa-May Khoo commented on the plan to redevelop a site on Chinatown’s Keefer Street.
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CBCCanadian architects bring campaign to address housing crisis from the street to world stage
SALA faculty and students are representing Canada at the Venice Biennale, with an installation on Canada's housing crisis.
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Vancouver SunVancouver's housing crisis goes global at major architectural festival
Architecture professor Matthew Soules said that homes are built as financial assets rather than spaces for living in Canada.
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City NewsIs Vancouver a destination for visitors, rather than a community for residents?
School of community and regional planning professor emeritus Dr. Penny Gurstein discussed the decreasing sense of community in Vancouver.
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Mechanical BusinessUBC among winners of 2023 Design and Build Challenge
UBC engineering and architecture student team Third Quadrant Design was among the winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2023 Build Challenge.
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Business in Vancouver
Patrick Condon: Behold Vancouver, where there are housing solutions to be found
SALA professor Patrick Condon argued that Vancouver should build more non-market housing projects to address the affordable housing problem.
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Vancouver Sun
Second time lucky? Input sought for controversial Beedie proposal for lot in Vancouver's Chinatown
SCARP PhD candidate Louisa-May Khoo discussed housing for seniors in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
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NBC NewsEngineers develop water filtration system that permanently removes 'forever chemicals'
Research led by chemical and biological engineering professor Dr. Madjid Mohseni discovered a way to eliminate harmful chemicals that usually take hundreds of years to break down.
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The Globe and MailUBC students construct one of Canada’s first ‘carbon-minimal’ hempcrete buildings
UBC student engineering and architectural team Third Quadrant Design’s new carbon-minimal hempcrete building was featured by the media. The team was advised by SALA associate professor Dr. Adam Rysanek.
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CBC NewsCalgary's long quest to infuse downtown with life enters new phase as election looms
Professor Patrick Condon from the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture discussed converting commercial buildings in downtown Calgary for residential use.