Canada

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada RetrofitCanadaGFRCBuilding scienceCommissioning

Unlocking value in a Brutalist box: whole-envelope thinking and commissioning at the Glenbow

Dale Wannamaker & Timothy Wong

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Curtain wallArchitectureCanadaDesignVancouver

Ten façades, one question: how do you protect an idea all the way to completion?

Venelin Kokalov

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityVancouver

Sustainability from every angle: why chasing recycled content is a zero-sum game

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Fire safetyCanadaCladdingBuilding scienceCombustibility

Playing with fire: why fire safety has to shape the façade from the first sketch

Peter Senez, David Goyne, Claire Yuan, Graham Finch & James Johnson

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada CanadaVancouverMass timberBuilding sciencePanelization

A skin with no floor lines: layering a mass-timber façade to move like feathers

Brad Carmichael

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Curtain wallCanadaSupply chainNet zeroFibreglass

Zero-tariff, net-zero: how a locally-made fibreglass façade de-risked the Red Deer courthouse

Peter Dushenski

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada ArchitectureCanadaVancouverMass timberIndigenous design

Making culture material: how Indigenous stories are being translated into façade and form

Avery Guthrie, Ouri Scott & Thomas Oster

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada CanadaSustainabilityBuilding scienceStep CodeEnergy

The 70% you decide before the energy model: why building shape governs façade performance

Ali Zadeh

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Urban designArchitectureCanadaVancouverMass timber

Façades as urban catalysts: an architect’s view of the skin that shapes a city

James Cheng

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada CanadaDurabilityFenestrationBuilding scienceStep Code

Kicking the can: why fenestration durability has to be a day-one conversation

Anton VanDyk

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada Curtain wallArchitectureCanadaVancouverEngineering

Crafting intricate forms: engineering the twisting fins of Burrard Gateway Tower 2

Mahsa Adib

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada GlassMaterialsCanadaVisualizationRendering

A clear vision of the future: predicting how glass will really look, before it’s built

Ravneet Saini & Martin Durivage

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada GlassCanadaBiophilic designColourVancouver

Beyond transparency: how colour in glass can bring a building to life

Bryce Given

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada MaterialsAluminiumParametricComposite panelsCanada

From aerospace to façade: honeycomb panels and a World Cup stadium clad by algorithm

Mourad El Garci

ZWOF Vancouver 2026 Canada GlassCurved glassMaterialsFabricationCanada

Bending glass to shape: multi-curved architectural glass and a Zaha Hadid megaproject

Bob Zhang

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Design assistFabricationConstructabilityPublic realmCanada

Design assist at the BMO Centre: a lantern that took a year to draw

Robert Clement

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Curtain wallCanadaProcurementSupply chainInsulating glass

Cold-climate net zero starts at the façade

Peter Dushenski

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Building physicsCanadaBuilding codesTestingAirtightness

Twenty-two milk jugs a minute: what the code lets a wall leak

Mira Saba

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada RetrofitCanadaDurabilityAcousticsBalcony glazing

Enclosing the balcony: twenty years between repairs, and 13 decibels

Mike Vanderveen

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Public realmCanadaComplex geometryCivic architectureMass timber

A velodrome made civic: straight timber, a twisted skin and no sloped insulation

Michael Henderson & Michael Dub

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada GRCEmbodied carbonRetrofitAdaptive reuseCanada

Fuzzy: how a 1975 bunker got a hand-sprayed skin and a front door

Kyle Auch

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada CanadaCladdingColourPlacemakingPublic architecture

Not a lobby, a lodge: a curved façade with only its horizontals curved

Kevin Bridgman & Tyler Hall

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada RetrofitAdaptive reuseCanadaBuilding scienceHeritage façades

Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

Joshua Taron, Christopher Zahaluk, David Leonard, Maxim Olshevsky & Steve Wirzba

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Embodied carbonAluminiumCanadaSustainabilityCircularity

A zero-sum game: why recycled aluminium is not the answer on its own

Jordi Marasse

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Embodied carbonBuilding envelopeQuality controlCanadaDurability

Not a façade system: the building’s primary environmental control

Jeff Ker

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada ConstructabilityQuality controlCanadaPrefabricationSupply chain

Mega panels: why prefabrication is arriving, and what moves off site with it

Christian Flores & Paul Carter

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Design assistMock-upsFaçade procurementDesign-buildCanada

Eight drawing sheets, then hundreds: procurement and the BMO Centre

Anine Eschberger Wortmann, Léo Lejeune, Kelly Coles & Joel Schwartz

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada Façade engineeringBuilding physicsGlassCanadaResilience

A fifth barrier: the enclosure as the last line against wildfire

Brian Hubbs

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Curtain wallQuality controlCanadaPrefabricationStainless steel

Hand-bent, 7,500 times: the stainless façade at Forma

Kamilah Bannister, Abel Gill, Dan Francis & Richard Orser

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada MaterialsCanadaDurabilityCircularityStainless steel

Chromium, chlorine and a linen finish: specifying stainless

Jörn Teipel

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada HeritageCurtain wallThermal bridgingAdaptive reuseCanada

Where the catalogue stops: thermal bridging at 950 King West

David Wach

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonCurtain wallCanadaAir tightnessPrecast concrete

A carbon budget for the envelope: 80 kilos, and what survives it

Andrew Geldard & Jelena Madzarevic

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Curtain wallCanadaSteelPrefabricationCircularity

The grid outlives the glass: an argument against unitized

Eric Claeys

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada HeritageAdaptive reuseCanadaSteelCircularity

Keep the 1928 look, add the performance: Battersea’s steel windows

Robert Miller

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada DaylightCanadaMass timberNatural ventilationAcoustics

Nothing but stack effect: how Limberlost Place breathes

Krista Palen

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada HeritageCurtain wallCanadaPrefabricationPrecast concrete

Same window, different panel: the taper at Schwartz Reisman

Matthew Ferraro

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonCanadaAcousticsPrecast concreteAffordable housing

Thirty-six moulds down to six: the precast at Kennedy Green

Jennifer Mallard

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonCurtain wallCanadaCostSupply chain

Procurement is a design choice: the Red Deer Justice Centre

Peter Dushenski

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Embodied carbonMaterialsAluminiumCanadaCircularity

No bad materials: what actually decides which one you use

Adrian Betanzos

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada RetrofitCanadaDurabilityAcousticsBalconies

Wanted but never used: what glazing does to a balcony

Kristoph Karbach

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada DaylightGlassCanadaWellbeingHealthcare

Ten minutes of nature: what biophilia asks of the glass

Matias Reyes

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada Curtain wallAluminiumDigital twinsCanadaPrefabrication

Four inches instead of five: settling 89 Avenue Yorkville in VR

Tobiasz Staszak

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada High-riseFaçade engineeringCurtain wallCanadaCost

Fifty to eight hundred: choosing a façade before you draw it

Brian Hubbs & David Stanton

ZWOF Toronto 2025 Canada DaylightWorkplaceCanadaMetal panelConstruction tolerances

Not a box: Bombardier’s Pearson plant as a workplace for 2,000

Lilia Koleva & Marco Chow