Want to find out how the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is “devoted to dinosaurs, inside and out”? Click here to read the full article by Omar Mouallem, with featured images by Tom Arban.

What an exciting start to the New Year! The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur is listed as one of the Globe and Mail`s top 10 travel destinations of 2015, putting Alberta’s rural Peace Country on the map. Click here for the full article by Mercedeh Sanati to see the other recommended destinations.

Congratulations to PCL Construction Management Inc. for taking home the 2014 Alberta Construction Award for the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum! We are pleased with the team`s effort in transforming this project into an exceptional reality. Click here for more information about the award.

The new Clareview Community Recreation Centre and Branch Library opens its doors to the public yesterday. Click here to take a virtual tour of the building with our Edmonton partner, Brian Bengert from Architecture Tkalcic Bengert, featured in CBC News.

On Saturday August 9^th, 650 bikes joined the Aykroyd Family Ride to the Philp J. Currie Dinosaur Museum for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony. In the evening, the museum hosted the black-tie Amber Ball, the weekend’s pinnacle event. The evening program included a five-course meal prepared by Grande Prairie’s most accomplished chef, a performance by The Tenors, ‘The Blues Brothers’ (featuring Dan Akroyd and musical guest), the Grande Prairie Boys Choir, and several other Juno award-winning musicians.

Highlights from the evening can be found here.

Here’s some latest site photos of the Philp J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Alberta. Watch the bones being covered with some skin!

Azure has named the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum as one of their Projects to Follow in 2014! We’re honoured to be included on a list that includes some of the most exciting work being done in Canada, if not to mention the world. Want to read the full article? Click here.

Progress continues on this warm and welcoming timber structure set in Alberta’s prairies, with exhibits set to open in December 2014 … ready to see the Pachyrhinosaurus?

Conceived of in close collaboration between Teeple Architects and the Structural Engineers, Fast + Epp, the pine beetle wood skeleton is joined by custom-designed and CNC-milled Douglas fir nodes. These laminated confluence points were modeled precisely in 3D software so that the internal tensile steel hardware could be inserted during their fabrication in Structure Craft’s warehouse. Transported to site and joined in situ, the combination of local wood species creates an evocative spatial expression reminiscent of a primordial skeleton.

We’ve teamed up with Fast + Epp to invent a creative and innovative process for custom-designed wood structural nodes for the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Alberta.

We modeled the structural nodes in Rhino and passed it on to our structural engineer, who modeled the necessary hardware in place before each piece was cut. Our friends at Structure Craft have been doing a fantastic job pre-fabricating the nodes in their warehouse and will deliver them to be installed on site.

Production is on schedule for the opening next year and we are extremely excited to share the results as they come!

Lots of digging – maybe we’ll even discover some dinosaur bones while we’re at it!