Bucky Blog

Sites, zoning, feasibility, and the decisions that come before you build.

Supporters, some in hard hats, hold "Put Faith in Housing" signs at a press event

Jul 20, 2026·2 min read

Virginia's Faith in Housing Act Explained: Why It Matters

The United States recently passed what many are calling the most significant federal housing legislation in decades.

The 10th & Wyandotte parking garage by BNIM, wrapped in a white perforated screen

Jul 20, 2026·5 min read

10 Parking Garages That Are Actually Good Architecture

Real change is often incremental, requiring solutions that work within the conditions that already persist.

Black-and-white aerial photo of a downtown surface parking lot full of cars

Jul 8, 2026·4 min read

How Parking Lot Redevelopment Is Funded: The Role of Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

To say most North American cities are car-centric is an understatement. At this stage of urbanism, we are completely dependent on the automobile

Aerial view of Toronto's waterfront industrial lands with the downtown skyline behind

Jul 1, 2026·4 min read

Why Cities Are Redeveloping Their Waterfronts: 3 Projects to Watch

For a long time, North American waterfronts were zones of industry and work. Ports, rail yards, warehouses, factories, silos, shipyards.

Rendering of the Montpelier federal building reimagined with a timber pavilion and a public garden

Jun 23, 2026·2 min read

Federal Building on the Auction Block in Montpelier, Vermont

Three stories, roughly 70,000 square feet, sitting on a 1.6-acre lot less than a quarter mile from the State Capitol.

A cluster of new condo towers, one still under construction

Jun 23, 2026·3 min read

Federal and B.C. Governments Launch Partnership to Convert More Than 2,200 Vacant Vancouver Condos into Affordable Housing

The federal and British Columbia governments have launched a new partnership to convert 2,200 Vancouver condominiums into affordable homes through a proposed rent-to-own program.

Open-plan office under exposed timber roof trusses, designed by Olson Kundig

Jun 23, 2026·3 min read

5 Creative Office Designs across the US and Canada

As office buildings across North America continue to age, more companies are choosing to adapt what already exists instead of starting from scratch.

A cost spreadsheet set equal to a plain mid-rise apartment block, titled "Spreadsheets are becoming buildings"

Jun 19, 2026·2 min read

Why your Spreadsheet is becoming the Blueprint

Start looking at the buildings around us. The building isn't really born from a sketch anymore. It's born from a spreadsheet.

Rendering of a Vancouver village street with mid-rise homes over shops, trees and people walking

Jun 16, 2026·3 min read

The city of Vancouver is building.. Villages?

The focus shifts toward smaller commercial streets and neighbourhood centres that already exist but have seen relatively little growth despite the city's rising population.