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<p>Along with the CORE mall project, the refurbishment of the gardens is part of a larger regeneration strategy for the downtown business district.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Michael Donaldson was the project architect (while in the employ by McKinley Burkart Architecture) and led the design of a new&nbsp;fully-glazed high-performance building envelope, the interior architectural spaces and a complex redundant waterproofing system. He was also responsible for consultant coordination, working drawing production, and contract administration over a 2½ year period. The park was designed by the consultant team of Janet Rosenberg &amp; Associates Landscape Architects, McKinley Burkart Architecture and MMC Architects; CA was completed by Design Workshop Architects, under sub-contract to McKinley Burkart.</p>

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Gladstone House Hotel

Creating a memorable and evocative interior space is an especially humane and artistic aspect of the craft of architecture. The joining of interior and exterior (and beyond) requires a deft touch and a commitment to visual, tactile, and conceptual legibility. We’ve had unique experience with architecture and interior design and know that elevating an interior is about so much more than trends. We can help you consider the entire experience of a service, workplace, residence, or product, and to deliver a rich, unique, and impactful space, complete with the elements that will give it life.

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We engage with buildings at all levels, through analysis, design and execution. We have experience through all phases of architectural services and have a highly developed skillset around the design of high-performance, new-build and renovation work. We work comfortably and confidently at all scales, from the fine grain of an exceptional custom home through to large, multi-phase, commercial and residential projects.

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Understanding and vetting the many potential routes to solving a problem requires knowledge and rigor. We examine the multi-dimensional factors that will contribute to making strategic design decisions throughout the life of a project. Doing the work up-front builds a platform for success. We excel at helping our stakeholders to understand risk and allocate resources.

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All Saints Church Community Centre

There is more to the process of realizing a project than designing a building. We are ideal partners for the navigation of the complex process of steering projects through the increasingly fraught approvals process. We’ll help you to understand the hurdles up-front and will support you or your specialist consultants with the technical and political tools to unlock the potential of your project. Planning a project, in terms of identifying goals, responsive timing and budgets, building a team, and following through on day-to-day management is, of course, also a necessary ingredient in a great architectural partner – let us help you with both. 

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The capacity to look into our potential futures emerges out of experience, consideration, knowledge, and vision. This is a design process, and imagining and achieving ideal future outcomes is the ultimate strategic element of our work. Interrogating our past and present provides context, but to venture deeply into potential futures requires a creative spark and intuitive capacity. Visit the Future Workshop website.

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The spaces between buildings are part of the connective tissue of the city’s physical fabric, society, and culture. We extend public spaces into time through experiences, memory, and emotion. We love the challenge of breaking down boundaries between the experience of interior and exterior space, and believe in the profound impact of engaging with people through this medium. The true scale of a city is that of the individual lives and communities it hosts, not the vessels it creates.

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Consideration of the broader impact on society, the city and the interests of others is an emerging part of the responsibility and duty of those who are in positions of influence. We believe that it is usually possible to solve more than one problem through any design process. This means that we can look at the implications of decisions that go beyond the scope of conventional practice and identify opportunities that would be missed when viewed through a narrower lens. This can and should be a win-win-win for all parties, and for the triple bottom line of economic, environmental, and social impact.

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Interacting with complex problems is part of the experience of practicing architecture at a high level. The leap from interaction with complexity to a humble self-awareness and intervention in these spaces extends past the boundaries of the traditional discipline. This is where we see the future of our profession: in the application of our unique spatial intelligence to unlock the potential for positive change in our challenged world.

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