In the 1890s, under the guise of night, a slice of upper crust Cantabrigians would climb the crenelated gatehouses and Gothic chapels that populate Cambridge, England. Their clandestine aims were ...

I’m wedged into a gap about 50cm wide, desperately pushing as hard as I can into the steel wall in front of me to save myself from slipping. Granted, I’d only fall about 3.5m, and there is a mat ...

Last Saturday, more than six million people held their breath as Alex Honnold took his first step up Taipei 101. The Free Solo climber, who went on to ascend Taiwan’s tallest building without the ...

A new exhibit at the Blaffer Art Museum titled Buildering: Misbehaving the City is a traveling exhibit that explores using architecture and an urban environment. Buildering is a made up word, with ...

My career in journalism has been varied and wide-ranging. I’m an author, a documentary maker, a reporter, and my work has sparked four commissions of inquiry in Canada. My touchstone in journalism has ...

Steven Matijcio talks with Troy Schulze about the exhibition, “Buildering: Misbehaving the City”, now at the Blaffer Art Museum. Shaun Gladwell, “Pataphysical Man” (video image), 2005. Steven Matijcio ...

“Buildering” is a word you probably have never heard before, and the same is true of the French word “parkour”, but both these describe overt acts of artistic expression with elements of rebellion ...

Scaling buildings might sound reckless — but it could also be the ultimate mindful movement. Our fitness director took on some of London’s top climbs to see what it’s all about I’m wedged into a gap ...

Some of these people had likely already watched Honnold scale the 3,000-foot rock wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan. But for many, the climber’s ascent up a man-made structure was likely an introduction ...