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$1-billion office towers to be built in Calgary
CALGARY -- Calgary-based Gibbs Gage Architects have designed the $1-billion Penny Lane towers, which will provide two million square feet of office space to downtown Calgary. The development manager for the project is real-estate firm Hines…
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Two hours west of Toronto, the Niagara Escarpment knifes 725 kilometres through southern Ontario from Lake Erie north, forming a stiletto of land jutting into Georgian Bay known as the Bruce Peninsula. Along its rocky edges are…
New incentive program will reduce Toronto buildings’ power consumption
TORONTO -- The Building Owners and Managers Association of Toronto (BOMA) and the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) have launched a program which aims to save 150 megawatts (MW) of electricity in Toronto annually. The BOMA Toronto CDM Program,…
Illuminating Architecture
Paris is called the City of Light for the flair with which most of its historic monuments and many of its architectural gems are illuminated externally after dark.Then there is Vancouver, which isn't Paris, but in its own unassuming yet…
New Park at Lake Ontario
TORONTO -- Field Operations, a New York-based landscape architecture firm, has been commissioned by the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation (TWRC) to design a new 500-acre park on the shore of Lake Ontario in Toronto. The project,…
Preventing The Next Caledonia
The unfortunate truth is that land rights disputes between First Nations and non-natives pre-date the founding of Canada. Since 1867, the responsibility for managing First Nations land rights was held by the Crown, and since then a…
$300M golf resort designed for Louisbourg, N.S. (February 01, 2007)
LOUISBOURG, N.S. - Cape Breton Island (CBI) Developers, based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, is building a $300-million golf and spa resort on 2,500 acres around Grand Lake in Louisbourg, N.S. The Louisbourg Resort Golf and Spa will include two…
RAIC wary of government’s mixed messages
OTTAWA - The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) has criticized the federal government for issuing announcements about promoting and funding energy efficiency, while quietly cutting programs. As evidence, RAIC points to the…
Beware of free margaritas
If you're a builder, you've probably heard about Greenbuild, the annual gathering of the U.S. Green Building Council. If not, you will. The conference brought more than 15,000 builders, architects, designers and other environmentally-minded…
The “other” Chapter 11
Most readers of Building magazine will not instantly be able to ascribe a meaning to Chapter 11 since it is not a term which comes up often in the construction and development industry. Those in the industry who deal with cross-border…