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.
All three levels of government are set to support the $75M Diversity Gardens at Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg.
The tides of economic confidence are on the upswing for Surrey as another major hotel has been approved for its emerging downtown area.
Following several years of planning and 12 months of work, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hotel has officially reopened and welcomed its first guests.
As a result of a fire that destroyed the Centre Block in 1916, the West Block is the oldest of the Parliament’s Buildings. The load-bearing masonry structure was built in three campaign periods, starting in 1859, and it was completed in 1909 by the Department of Public Works.
After a long wait, Saskatchewan's newest art gallery is set to finally open its doors to the public this fall.
Parliament Hill’s West Block has been closed for restoration work since 2011, but journalists got their first look inside yesterday as it nears the end of construction.
