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The award-winning architecture critic was in Toronto recently as a jury member for Harmony Village Lake Simcoe, a development in Barrie, Ontario, that will occupy the city’s last parcel of land with lakeside frontage. We spoke with Goldberger to discuss the competition and the importance of good architect-client relations.

Piero Gandini, the president and CEO of the Italian lighting manufacturer, sat down with Azure to discuss its modus operandi, from its exclusive designers to its lighting that morphs into architecture.

The Milan architect and designer discusses what it takes to be a good client, and the importance of steering clear of marketing departments.

In anticipation of her Trade Talk at the Interior Design Show in Toronto next week, the French designer discussed collaboration, colour, inspiration, and her latest project, Le Blobterre de Matali (now on view at the Centre Pompidou in Paris) with Azure contributor Christina Bagatavicius.

The documentarian behind Helvetica, Objectified, and – his latest – Urbanized was recently in Toronto for an exclusive viewing of all three films, which are screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox until January 17. Azure caught up with him to talk about city planning, Frank Gehry and Massimo Vignelli.

A Q&A with the young Miami architect behind such jaw-dropping designs as Miami’s COR Tower and Desert Lodges, a resort carved into the hills of Wadi Rum, in Jordan.

While 1Q84, the new novel by Haruki Murakami, continues to garner mixed reviews, Azure chatted with Chip Kidd, its cover designer, about inspiration, process, and typesetting.

In the realm of design, it would be difficult to find a pair of brothers with more divergent aesthetics than these two.

We spoke with Todd MacAllen of Vancouver studio Molo about a series of paper walls that can be easily assembled to form private spaces inside emergency relief shelters.

One local research and design collective uses ideas, insights and data to push urban planning into the future. Azure chats with two of the three partners, Brendan Cormier and Christopher Pandolfi, to find out how they plan to save our city.