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.

Stephen Teeple and Martin Baron both take swings at the former building as Boulevard Club Expansion breaks ground today.

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

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!

Construction well underway. We’re pleased to see it take shape. A few lofts still remain. If you’re interested in more details, please visit this link.

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

Grande Prairie’s, Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, is finally set to officially break ground as early as April of the coming new year, with the project going to tender in January. The project, which was at a standstill due to expected funding from the federal government falling through, has since regained momentum with combined efforts from the City and County of Grande Prairie, community members, the province and an online campaign (indiegogo), who have collectively raised enough funds to enable the project to proceed to tendering in the coming months. Beyond this however, there is still another $7 million to be raised.