Canada

Plans are afoot for a magnificent new open air lagoon in Canada that will be kept at balmy temperatures year-round through a “huge Thermos” heating system underneath to become the largest lagoon of its type in the world.

Faster than a jet plane and about half the price. Yes, it's another hyperloop-style vacuum-tube train – this time from Canada. TransPod says it's started preliminary construction on a tube that'll fire you from Calgary to Edmonton in 45 minutes.

It can be challenging, trying to selectively kill off an invasive plant that grows in amongst non-target native species. A new initiative is aiming to do just that, however, by introducing a weed-eating mite into the Canadian environment.

German multinational Thysenkrupp has won the contract to build and operate a huge hydro-electrolysis facility in Quebec, which will use one of the world's most powerful electrolyzers to produce some 11,100 metric tons of green hydrogen annually.

A gold miner in Canada has discovered what may be the most complete wolf pup mummy ever found. Locked in the permafrost for 57,000 years, the pup is so well preserved that scientists can learn a lot about her diet, genetics, life and death.

Set to be the first original Canadian-built zero-emissions car, the Project Arrow concept is hoped to not just culminate in an environmentally-friendly, next-gen vehicle, but help fast-track the country’s capacity to produce electric cars.

Four terminally ill cancer patients in Canada have been granted a special exemption to legally possess and consume psilocybin. They are the first in the country, outside a clinical trial, allowed to do so since the psychedelic was made illegal in 1974.

Researchers in Canada have diagnosed an advanced, malignant bone cancer – in a dinosaur. Using human diagnostic techniques, a team examined a large growth on the animal’s leg bone, marking the first time such a diagnosis has been made for a dinosaur.

Herzog & de Meuron has designed a slender new skyscraper for Toronto, Canada, that would be the country's tallest if realized. Named 1200 Bay Street, it would contain retail space, a restaurant, and luxury apartments.

Morphosis offers an interesting take on an office building with its Store Support Centre for Lululemon. If realized as planned, the Vancouver project will feature significant greenery and will be defined by its eye-catching energy-efficient facade.

Dialog, along with EllisDon and Smoke Architecture, has been commissioned to design the Centennial College A Block Expansion Building. Due for completion in 2023, it's described as Canada's first zero-carbon, mass timber higher-education building.

Music and architecture often meet, such as when Beyoncé inspired a skyscraper and Kanye West's attempts to get his affordable housing project off the ground. Now Pharrell Williams has helped design a pair of high-rise residential towers for Toronto.