This type of sport is called “buildering” (from bouldering, to climb boulders) and it has been happening for more than a century.

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 ...

Tomorrow, Alex Honnold will try to climb a 508m Taiwanese skyscraper live on Netflix. To set the stage, we revisit the crazy ...

Around 25 to 30 people are standing in front of a UBC clubhouse. The congenial atmosphere doesn't fit the image of raucous shit-faced yahoos climbing the exteriors of campus buildings at 3 a.m. 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 ...

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 ...

When Netflix recently announced that Alex Honnold would attempt to free solo a skyscraper live in Taiwan, it felt like the modern version of an old story. Before him, Alain Robert, the "French Spider ...

Buildering: Misbehaving the City is a traveling group exhibition that explores the unsanctioned use of architecture and the urban environment. Fusing the words "building" and "bouldering" (a type of ...

“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 ...

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 ...