Sid Lee Architecture has completed an extensive renovation for one of Montreal's most prestigious hotels, opening its lobby and public spaces to serve a broader clientele than just hotel guests.
A few weeks after the re-opening of Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Sid Lee Architecture is pleased to present the architecture and design initiatives that made the hotel’s transformation possible.
Located in the heart of downtown, True North Square is the largest private mixed-use development in Winnipeg’s history combining office, hotel, residential, retail, parking, and a central plaza.
Did you know September is Landscape Architecture Month in Manitoba? Every year, the Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects compiles a growing list of events around Winnipeg to celebrate landscape architecture in the province.
Bridgetown Regional Community School is a learning environment like no other. When students walk into the school for the first time today, it’s not the old jail cell design of cinder block classrooms on each side of a narrow hall.
Montreals’ Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel has been reinvented in keeping with its mid-century vision of a perfect hotel and its grand international style.
WEST LINCOLN — When Chris Carter’s three-year-old daughter was running around on the playground in Smithville recently she made note of the 80 “exotic” birds — they were seagulls — scrounging for a meal around a big puddle.
Since June 2013, a modernist structure has been under construction on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon’s River Landing neighbourhood. Its low, flat topography mimics the surrounding Prairie landscape and its protruding glass wings and copper-coloured mesh exterior distinguishes it from any other building in the city.
Standing in the great hall of the reimagined Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, little evidence remains of the slightly staid, ageing interior that welcomed the grand hotel’s last guests before its 2016 closure.
A multimillion-dollar rebuilding project is underway at Halifax Grammar School on Tower Road.
Redefining the Heart of the City! See the latest update to True North square.
The scent inside the Mendel Art Gallery’s basement is a cocktail of paints, varnishes, metals and woods – intoxicating, though not unpleasant – but I’m only whiffing a fraction of Saskatoon’s largest public art vaults.
