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Parkin recently mailed a postcard for the award winning Tuugaalik High School in Naujaat, Nunavut. This outstanding facility won an Honourable Mention in the Learning by Design Magazine. The project has added further northern expertise to our portfolio. The design team enjoyed learning about the unique requirements of a northern school and its cultural differences … Continued
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“Every building we design, be it a hospital or a prison, should reflect the values that define our society.” Robert Boraks, Director. We are spending more of our time thinking about how the building environments we create influence the health of the people who are in them. ” Cameron Shantz, Director. Parkin was featured in … Continued
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Joseph Brant Hospital Patient Care Tower will be completed within the next 3 months. The hospital will be accepting patients on August 20, 2017. The $350 million hospital was featured on CHCH news. For more details, please click on the following link: http://www.chch.com/joseph-brant-hospitals-new-patient-tower/
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Welcome back to our Architectural Blog Series. This month, we take a look at the new Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) unit at Ottawa’s Queensway Carleton Hospital.
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The construction of the RCMP detachment facility in Arivat, Nunavut has resumed after a four-month winter break. The contractor remobilized on site in early April to clear the site of snow and resume the exterior work. The building envelope will be completed over the next month, including installation of the exterior cladding, windows and doors. … Continued
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Construction of a new high school in Cape Dorset, Nunavut is under way. The construction team was able to ship to the site all the blasting and excavation equipment on the last barge of the fall, in anticipation of steel arriving on the first sea lift. The one level, 3,300 sq.m. school will accommodate 215 … Continued
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Kingston’s newly opened Providence Care Hospital (PCH) provides physical medicine, rehabilitation, geriatrics, complex continuing care, palliative care, specialized mental health care, and forensics, for patients in southeastern Ontario.
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Parkin is a sponsor and participant at CCHF’s Seminar, Transforming Healthcare Environments, at The Ottawa Hospital on May 15 and 16, 2017. Robert Boraks, a Parkin director and shareholder, will be presenting with Peter Thompson, Director, Planning and Facilities Redevelopment, Queensway Carleton Hospital (“QCH”) Nepean. They will be discussing Acute Care for the Elderly (“ACE”) … Continued
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Parkin received an Honourable Mention and National Recognition award for excellence in educational facility design in the 2017 spring edition of American magazine, LEARNING BY DESIGN, the premier source of education design, innovation and excellence. Tuugaalik High School (Naujaat, Nunavut, Canada) has been recognized for its overall plan, architectural design and attributes worthy of imitation. … Continued
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Parkin Architects Limited is sponsoring an architectural course at Carleton University. Titled “Extreme Environments – Social and Environmental Infrastructure for Naujaat”, the course introduces second year Masters of Architecture students to the challenges and opportunities of designing in Canada’s far north. The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton thought it important that … Continued
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