Sometimes change is hard to spot. Limberlost Place, a new 10-storey facility for George Brown College, lands quietly on Toronto’s eastern waterfront. Its serrated, copper-hued facades rise up and slim ...

Just think of it as burl power. Burls, the outgrowths on trees caused by injury or infection, are having a moment in the design world. Proponents admire the distinctive knots and swirls in the wood ...