Festival Hall
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Client: Talisker and Riocan REIT
Year: 1999
Floor Area: 30,000m²
Cost: $60 million
Awards: ICSC Gold Award

This urban entertainment centre is in the rapidly evolving entertainment district of downtown Toronto. The building was designed within the guidelines of the City of Toronto's then emerging King/Spadina planning initiatives to invigorate the old industrial district. The city-block-sized building contains a three storey underground parking garage for 415 cars; two storeys of double height retail floors; and, a third storey new generation 4300 seat 14-screen cinema multiplex which includes a 3-D IMAX theatre. Other tenants include a Chapters Bookstore, Playdium video arcade, restaurants and nightclubs.

Rainbow Tower Hotel
Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario
Client: Canadian Niagara Hotels Inc.
Year: 2004 - Present
Floor Area: 60,000m²
Estimated Cost: $200 million

The ambition of the is project to provide a world quality iconic symbol for Niagara Falls positioned at the opposite end of Queen Victoria Park from the Horseshoe Falls. The tower is an extraordinary crystalline structure of faceted surfaces, combining a replacement public observation gallery for the old Kodak tower and a new 48-storey luxury hotel of 556 rooms and facilities. This will complete a cluster of structures, including the existing Sheraton and Brock Hotels which will act as a gateway to the Falls from the north, east and west. The structure also completes a system of pedestrian connections at a mezzanine level tying the three hotels together.

Port Place
Location: Port Dalhousie, Ontario
Client: Port Dalhousie Vitalization Corporation
Year: 2006
Floor Area: 25,000m²

The site, in a prime waterfront location is completed as a "perimeter block" with buildings providing façades to all streets and a new outdoor courtyard. The block is penetrated by public passages creating a public realm both inside and out. The proposed building program is comprised of four primary elements: a theatre, a residential apartment building, a boutique hotel and retail shops and restaurants. The new contemporary buildings have regard for the accumulated heritage of the area by being conscious of the rhythm and scale of streets, borrowing from the colours and materials present, and by reflecting the intensity of detail of the existing buildings.

Ministry of Oil Headquarters Building
Location: Tehran, Iran
Client: Ministry of Oil
Year: 2001
Floor Area: 180,000m²
Estimated Cost: $350 million
Awards: International Competition, 1st prize

The new Oil Industry Headquarters in Tehran contains offices of the major oil companies in Iran and the Iranian Ministry of Oil. An array of modern services including banking, food service, library, theatrical space, daycare, prayer hall, was designed to serve 8 000 employees. The large tower (45 storeys), the four company mid-rise towers, the mosque and other program elements are clustered and deployed to solve certain site issues and to address cosmological imperatives.

Tianjin Customs House
Location: Tianjin, China
Client: China Customs
Year: 2001
Floor Area: 44,000m²
Cost: $70 million

Located in the Tianjin Economic Development Area the complex is a headquarters for China Customs. It provides amenities for Chinese and international business people in this new international trading zone. The project is a mixed-use building, organized around a grand Customs Hall and contains several impressive interior public spaces in addition to office space and conference facilities. A number of sustainable design initiatives have been incorporated into the building, including extensive skylights to bring natural light into the interior of the building and use of locally available materials.

Mississauga Civic Centre
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Client: City of Mississauga
Year: 1986
Floor Area: 40,000m²
Cost: $60 million
Awards: Governor General Award for Architecture; Progressive Architecture Citation; Great Britain Architectural Design Award

This competition winning project has received wide international acclaim since its opening. The building and civic square establish a civic centre for Mississauga providing a 'sense of place' for its citizens. In addition to consolidating municipal functions, the civic centre provides public amenities including a garden, sculpture court, art gallery, amphitheatre, and reflecting pool/skating rink. The building and square have been designed as a catalyst to organize surrounding civic uses such as a new Central Library and the Living Arts Centre.

Shenyang Customs House
Location: Shenyang, China
Client: China Customs
Year: 2002-Present
Floor Area: 40,000m²
Cost: $60 million
Awards: International Competition, 1st prize

Presently under construction, the Shenyang Customs building is located in a new city expansion of Shenyang in the Hunnan administrative district, south of the Hunhe River. The building programme includes office accommodation, a 55-room guesthouse wing, meeting rooms, staff cafeteria and kitchen, staff recreation facilities, and underground parking for cars and buses. The building follows traditional Chinese architectural principles in its orientation and functional organization. The building elevations of the main 9-storey office wing and the principal entrance are oriented to the south and overlook a paved and landscaped forecourt. A central axis links the entrance to the glazed atrium, an enclosed courtyard within the building. A five -storey podium links the office wing to the guesthouse wing and provides east facing frontage onto the grand boulevard of the new city centre.

Yincheng Plaza
Location: Nanjing, China
Client: Yincheng Real Estate Co. Ltd.
Year: 2006
Floor Area: 50,000m²

The program includes office space, retail space, and a public plaza. The site located on the west side of Nanjing near the Yangtze River is long and narrow with a north-south orientation creating a need to fabricate a building with increased southern exposure. The obvious solution to the problem is to make a building with a chamfered or curved east façade so as to bias the building to the south thereby improving the solar orientation. Architecturally, the four storey podium building is treated as a classically proportioned, elegant frame structure constructed in masonry, which conveys the appearance of solidity and makes a visually stable base for the 80m high curved office slab rising above.

Niagara Falls Convention and Civic Centre
Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario
Client: Niagara Convention and Civic Centre
Gross Floor Area: 29,565m²
Project Cost: $71 million design-build contract
Architects: The Kirkland Partnership in joint venture with CS&P Architects and SDA Architects
Year: Under construction, project completion 2011

The Niagara Convention Centre is a competition winning design-build project for the City of Niagara Falls drawing on infrastructure funding. One of the objectives of the project is to generate economic tourism activity in the off-season by utilising the vast inventory of hotel rooms in Niagara Falls that would normally be dormant.

The Convention Centre program consists of a 7600m² Exhibition Hall, a 1560m² Ballroom, an 1100m² Theatre/Junior Ballroom, plus a variety of smaller meeting rooms and support spaces. The Theatre located at the north-east corner of the building, occupies the most prominent position in the building constitutes the "civic" component of the project.

All Suites Hotel
Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario
Client: Canadian Niagara Hotels Inc.
Year: 2007 - Present
Gross Floor Area: 30,000m²
Construction Cost: $200 million

The project aims to provide a world class iconic symbol for Niagara Falls positioned at the opposite end of Queen Victoria Park from Horseshoe Falls, on axis with the Rainbow Bridge.

The new 30 storey building will be comprised of 364 suites with wide frontages (6.4m+) and higher than customary floor to ceiling heights loft-like dimensions of +3.0m, to provide a more residential quality to each room.

The hotel will provide a needed addition of high quality family suites to the hotel inventory of Niagara Falls.