DIALOG makes a difference.

Phew.

Synergy Wellness Centre, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

DIALOG was recently announced as the winner of the Sherwood Park & District Chamber of Commerce’s 2011 Business Awards for Innovation: New Large Business, Product, Service or Work System. 

Fort McMurray: The heart of the oil patch seeks its soul →

“This is the twilight zone. No rules that apply anywhere else apply here.”

DIALOG’s Urban Planner Jennifer Keesmaat talks about her radically different way of envisioning the city. [READ MORE]

ResilientCity.org →

ResilientCity.org is an open, not-for-profit network of urban planners, architects, designers, engineers, and landscape architects whose mission is to develop creative, practical, and implementable planning and design strategies that help increase the capacity for resilience of our communities and cities to the future shocks and stresses associated with climate change, environmental degradation, resource shortages, in the context of global population growth

Ledcor/Dialog + Michael Lundholm Team Design Build Submission for Royal Alberta Museum

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship — around participation in public life.

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

urban planning

At 3:00 pm on Wednesday September 14th, 2011, Alberta Infrastructure announced that the Ledcor / DIALOG + Lundholm team were selected through competition to design and build the Royal Alberta Museum. The Royal Alberta Museum is a $260M project to be built in the heart of Edmonton’s Arts District.