Arcbazar (20 Aug 2015)

At arcbazar.com, any person can launch a design competition for any scale of project: an addition to a home, a remodeling job for retail space, a design of an entire family home, a landscape project, a mixed-use development, or any other architectural design project. The client describes the project and uploads images that form the basis for designers to develop their architectural concepts. The client sets the award and timeline, and in the end picks the best design solution.

Drafting Space (19 Aug 2015)

Interactive, highly intuitive, 3D building design concept tools are being produced by Startups such as Drafting Space.

Lynx Laboratories (20 Aug 2015)

Lynx Labs is developing a mobile structural capture device, which captures the shape and motion of the environment with the ease of use of a point-and-shoot camera. The device has 3 features: object modeling, scene modeling and motion capture. The device streamlines the workflow for industries that require 3D content, such as architecture by constructing accurate and fully meshed models in minutes at the price of a full-framed DSLR camera.

Drawboard (20 Aug 2015)

Drawboard is a full featured PDF annotation tool that allows architects and engineers to edit and share documents digitally, removing the wasted time and effort spent in printing, scanning and collaborating. Since launching late 2013, Drawboard has already achieved a growing revenue stream with current monthly revenue of ~$30k, signing a number of corporate customers including Westpac and PCL Construction.

Tiny Toronto (9 Oct 2015)

Lanefab is an integrated design/build company that crafts custom homes and infill mini-homes (or “laneway houses”) with design quality & energy efficiency as core values. ​
BY THE NUMBERS
Amount of Construction in North America involving an Architect:
10%
Annual value of Building Construction in the U.S.:
$1 Trillion
Annual value of Home Improvements market:
$120 Billion (Arcbazar)