Canada’s Coolest New Art Museum Isn’t in Toronto (Surface)
The new Remai Modern Art Gallery may be the most impressive arts venue you’ve never heard of, thanks to its location in Saskatoon, a thriving—if overlooked—city on the Canadian prairie of Saskatchewan.
If Art Lovers Can Find Bilbao, Why Not Saskatoon? (The Wall Street Journal)
Settled among the wheat fields and mineral mines of the Canadian plains, the city of Saskatoon is hardly a hotbed for contemporary art. Yet having watched art lovers descend on out-of-the-way locales like Arkansas’ Bentonville and Colombia’s Bogota, Saskatoon is determined to join the global circuit this fall.
Sid Lee overhauls interiors of Montreal's iconic Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel (Dezeen)
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.
HÔTEL FAIRMONT LE REINE ELIZABETH/FAIRMONT THE QUEEN ELIZABETH (Archello)
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.
Presentation: True North Square
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.
Greenspace plan in place in Brandon
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.
First Day Jitters - New Bridgetown Regional Community School opens today
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.
Holding up the beacon of modernity!
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.
Ground broken on MURS project
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.
The Remai Modern Art Gallery - Saskatoon makes room for modern art (Nuvo)
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.
