In our April issueOur April issue looks at projectsand processesthat foreground public purpose.Our cover story is the new home of the Canadian Canoe Museum, in Peterborough, Ontario, designed by Unity Design Studio. The building embodies the elegant logic of its collection and provides a fitting new home for these foundational objects of Canadian culture, writes Javier Zeller.The Canadian Canoe Museum was built using an IDP process that centres collaboration. So was a second project in our pages this monththe modernization of Montreals City Hall, by Beaupr Michaud et Associs, Architectes in collaboration with MU Architecture. This civic symbol has been revitalized in an exemplary manner, writes Peter Sealy, commenting on both the integrity of the processand the quality of the results.In Winnipeg, Lawrence Bird visits the University of Manitobas Desautels Concert Hall, designed by Temple Architects with Cibinel Architecture. Its an elegant new concert hall that maximizes a constrained site, adding a top-tier performance venuealong with artful indoor and outdoor public areasto the universitys Faculty of Music.We also travel to Niagara Falls to visit The Exchange, a small-but-mighty community hub designed by DTAH that includes a farmers market, artists studios, and a multipurpose hall thats been used for everything from roller skating parties to drag shows.This months editorial looks at architects who are designing their practices in line with progressive social values. And an article by Rick Linley offers a how-to on aligning the operating system of your practice with your firms market position.Taking a long view, Larry Wayne Richards reflects on architectures digital futures. There is a sense of something radically different nowan accelerating cyber-avalanche, generating previously unimagined spatial complexity, he writes. With the convergence of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics, a new era of both real danger and great opportunity has arrived.Rounding out our pages are book reviews of new monographs by Martin Simmons Sweers and Blouin Orzes, and a look at Graham Liveseys compact new history of modern architecture.-Elsa Lam, editorThe post April 2025 appeared first on Canadian Architect.