Reimagine Architects

10/16/2026

We’re looking forward to joining the 2026 National Trust for Canada Conference in Waterloo Region, Ontario, later this month! (National Trust for Canada)

On October 23, Reimagine Architects will join the Ayik Sakahikan Historical Society to present The Retelling of Frog Lake’s Untold Truths + Stories: Shaped by Community Voices, Resilience & Vision.

Together, well share the vision and ongoing design of a new Interpretive Centre and Living Museum for Frog Lake First Nations, a community-led project that will create a dedicated space for the Nation to share its history, language, culture, and heritage through its own voices and perspectives.

The presentation will explore the importance of truth-telling, cultural revitalization, and community-led storytelling, alongside the role of architecture in creating spaces that preserve and celebrate Indigenous heritage.

Representing the project will be Alexander Saliwonczyk of the Ayik Sakahikan Historical Society, alongside Lindsay Farr of Reimagine Architects.

📅 Friday, October 23 | 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
📍 Viking Suite | National Trust Conference 2026

We look forward to sharing this work and connecting with others exploring the future of heritage conservation in Canada.

10/06/2026

Last Friday, we gathered at The Next Page in Calgary for another celebration of Reciprocity by Design: Architecture for Indigenous Tourism.

It was a wonderful evening of conversation, community, and reflection around the ideas at the heart of the book: reciprocity, relationship-building, and the role design can play in supporting Indigenous tourism and community-led development.

Thank you to The Next Page for welcoming us, and to everyone who joined authors Vivian Manasc, Safira Lakhani, and Tiffany Shaw to celebrate the book and continue the conversation.

We’re grateful to see Reciprocity by Design finding its way into new communities, one gathering at a time!

10/01/2026

A few photos from the 2026 ICBA Edmonton Meet the Generals & Owners event!

One of the best parts of working in architecture is how many different people shape a project long before it reaches the finish line. Spending an afternoon with contractors, developers, public owners, and industry partners gave us a chance to hear what teams are navigating right now and to have some useful conversations about how projects are being delivered across Alberta.

For Reimagine, those conversations are huge part of the work. Understanding what is happening on the construction side helps us design with a clearer sense of cost, coordination, constructability, and the decisions that ultimately affect a project on site.

Thanks to ICBA for bringing so many people from across the industry together in Edmonton!
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Rita Melo Reuss, Claudia Yehia-Alaeddine, Connie Yuen

09/23/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Audreys Books for the launch of Reciprocity by Design: Architecture for Indigenous Tourism.

The launch created space for a rich conversation about reciprocity, relationality, and the role architecture can play in supporting Indigenous tourism in ways that strengthen relationships with land, culture, community, and future generations.

Written by Vivian Manasc, Safira Lakhani, and Tiffany Shaw, Reciprocity by Design brings together architectural vignettes, frameworks, insights, and questions that explore the intersection of land, culture, and the visitor economy through regenerative and non-extractive approaches.

For those who weren’t able to join us, the book is now available to order. We hope it continues to spark thoughtful conversations around design, reciprocity, and the ways architecture can support communities in thriving on their own terms.

https://reimagine.ca/book

09/16/2026

The September/October issue of Canadian Interiors Magazine (Canadian Interiors magazine) features the Fourth-Floor Atrium at the University of Alberta Hospital in “The Healing School: Medical Education,” a piece by Rhys Phillips that looks at how healthcare spaces can carry some of the emotional weight placed on the people who move through them.

The UAH Atrium was designed by Reimagine as a place of respite within the larger hospital environment, with particular attention to the experience of patients, families, and staff during moments that can carry a great deal of uncertainty. That intent connects to a wider conversation about the role design plays in shaping how people experience care, uncertainty, and time spent in hospital.

These are places where people may be waiting for news, supporting someone they love, recovering, grieving, or simply trying to find a moment of steadiness. In that context, architecture has a real responsibility to create spaces that feel considered, legible, calm, and humane. We’re especially glad to see the UAH Atrium included in that conversation, and grateful to Canadian Interiors for giving the project and the thinking behind it such thoughtful attention.

Read “The Healing School: Medical Education” online Canadian Interiors magazine
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09/10/2026

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-reimagine-architects-reciprocity-by-design-tickets-2000196596865

Learn about Reciprocity by Design: a book exploring Indigenous Tourism and creating spaces that honour the land, community, and culture!

09/10/2026

We’re gathering at Audreys Books on Thursday, September 17 to celebrate Reciprocity by Design: Architecture for Indigenous Tourism.

From 7:00–8:30 p.m. MDT, authors Vivian Manasc, Safira Lakhani, and Tiffany Shaw will join us for a Meet the Authors conversation about the relationships, places, and ideas that shaped the book, and about the role architecture can play in supporting Indigenous tourism in ways that are grounded in reciprocity, culture, and community.

It will be an evening to hear more directly from the authors, spend time together, and celebrate the work behind the book.

Snacks and refreshments will be available, and copies of Reciprocity by Design will be available to purchase at the event. We hope to see you there!

09/09/2026

At the Frog Lake First Nations’ Children & Family, Intervention and Prevention Healing Centre, the mass timber structure now reveals much of what shaped the design from the beginning: the deep connection of the community with horses and healing, and a close relationship between the building and the land.

The flowing form draws from a horse in movement from ribbons used in the communitiy’s Horse Dance ceremony. The Centre is designed to allow those worlds to overlap: horses, people, soil/grass, landscape and ceremony all becoming part of the experience of the important work being done in this building, bringing children who have been in care back to their community and to provide a holistic space for individual, family, and community growth and healing.

The relationships are especially visible at this stage, before the structure is concealed by the layers that will eventually wrap and complete the Net Zero facility, using geothermal energy and solar panels it. The sweeping glulam frame begins to show how intimate spaces for care and support will connect with the larger spaces where horse-human healing, learning, and gathering will take place.

Construction also offers a rare chance to see the building almost as a diagram of itself. The structural bays, changing rooflines and curved members make the organization of the Centre legible in a way that will become subtler once the envelope and interior finishes are in place. It’s a beautiful stage to catch the project in, and even better to see so much of the Centre’s character already coming to life!
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Photography: Cooper & O'Hara | Photo + Video Production
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09/08/2026

World Green Building Week brings renewed attention to a question that sits at the centre of strong design: how do we create buildings that will hold up to the conditions ahead?

Architecture is always an act of optimism. We draw, specify, and build with the expectation that what we make will still matter decades from now; in a changing climate, that expectation carries even more weight. The buildings we complete today will be occupied in conditions we cannot fully predict, by people who had no part in the decisions we are making now. Their comfort, safety, and ability to continue using those places will depend on how seriously we take longevity at the outset.

For us, resilience begins with that responsibility. It means designing buildings that can endure greater environmental stress, be maintained rather than prematurely replaced, and adapt as both climate and community needs evolve. It means thinking carefully about envelopes, materials, systems, and assemblies, but also about the larger life of a building: how it will age, what it will ask of those who care for it, and how readily it can respond to conditions its designers could not fully foresee.

That long-term perspective will also be part of a conversation happening next week in Venice, Italy, where Vedran Skopac, Principal Architect at Reimagine, will present at Performance-Based Façade Design (PBFD) 2026. His presentation will revisit Edmonton’s Mosaic Centre after more than a decade in service, looking at what its façade can tell us about performance, weathering, durability, and the realities of designing for an extreme climate.

World Green Building Week is a chance to keep that longer view in focus, and to consider not only how we design for the future, but how well the decisions we make today continue to hold up once that future arrives.
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Photography: Cooper & O'Hara | Photo + Video Production
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09/04/2026

Join us on Thursday, September 17 from 7:00–8:30 p.m. MDT at Audreys Books (Audreys Books) in Edmonton for the official launch celebration of Reciprocity by Design: Architecture for Indigenous Tourism.

Written by Vivian Manasc (Vivian Manasc), Safira Lakhani (Safira Lakhani), and Tiffany Shaw (Tiffany Shaw), the book explores the role architecture can play in Indigenous tourism through relationships grounded in reciprocity, culture, land, and community.

The evening will include a Meet the Authors panel, offering a chance to hear more about the ideas, conversations, and collaborations that shaped the book.

Come by for an evening of conversation, connection, and celebration, and snacks with copies of the book available at the event!