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After Years of Neglect, Old City Hall Deserves Toronto’s Attention

Mr. Ortved's firm, CS&P Architects, has been studying Old City Hall along with a platoon of other consultants including museum specialists Lord Cultural Resources. Their recommendation, endorsed by city staff, is to re-purpose the building for a new city museum. This is something Toronto should have had 40 years ago, a huge missing link among its cultural institutions and a needed forum for discussion of the past and present. The consultants also imagine a new branch library, five times the size of the current branch in City Hall; and a variety of other "compatible uses," likely office space.

Dallas’ Next Great Plan. Maybe.

The Dallas Cultural Plan is a new document in the works under the auspices of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, with help from a New York-based consultant called Lord Cultural Resources. When the plan is completed this summer, it will be the product of almost a year’s worth of research. Consultants, city staff and officials, and a steering committee comprised of local arts advocates have spent that time trying to better understand how the city supports the arts and what the city can do to better facilitate a more vibrant and equitable cultural scene.

Finding Light Through the Concrete of Canada's Holocaust Monument

In 2007, Laura Grosman, an 18-year-old university student in Ottawa learned that Canada was the only Allied nation that didn’t have a monument to victims of the Holocaust. The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Grosman was incensed and began lobbying politicians. It was perplexing that Canada—a country that had played an integral role on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 and helped to end World War II—had no permanent marker for the civilian victims of that war.

Ten years later, Canada’s National Holocaust Monument—also known by its official title, Landscape of Loss, Memory, and Survival—finally opened to the public earlier this fall.

Maria Balshaw Has the Art World on Her Shoulders

The normally staid world of museum exhibitions has been upended over the past two years by a series of protests that have made global headlines. In 2016, Greenpeace shut down an exhibition at the British Museum sponsored by BP Plc, the fossil fuel giant. In March climate activists in Paris staged dramatic protests demanding that the Louvre abandon its financial agreement with Total SA, another oil and gas behemoth.

Visit Whistler’s Audain Museum: A World-Class Gallery in a Relaxed Ski Resort

The Audain Art Museum honors the stunning, unspoiled wilderness in Whistler, British Columbia, the most picturesque resort in town. The Audain Art Museum honors many past and present artists who have been inspired aesthetically and sipiritually by the powers of the landscape. Its permanent collection is a visual homage to the British Columbia's Indigenous people and its unspoiled nature.

Lord Cultural Resources prepared the Strategic Plan for the Audain Art Museum. “To see a collection you would expect to see in a major city in a ski resort and a building that is this sophisticated surrounded by mountains is a special experience.” -Gail Lord

Sister Act: Patna Museum is in stellar company with the newly minted Bihar Museum

The generous 5.3-hectare competition site along Patna’s Bailey Road allowed for a variety of planning approaches. Most competitors responded quite directly to the state’s desire to have an “iconic” building—creating dramatic forms, extensive cantilevers, and complex geometries. In contrast, we conceived the Bihar Museum as a “campus”—an interconnected landscape of buildings and exterior spaces with a modest but dynamic profile, in harmony with the land.

To create the “campus”, we gave each zone (entrance, education, exhibition and administration) a distinct and recognizable form within the complex. These independent, smaller-scaled forms were linked together via seven exterior courtyards, ensuring that all spaces were connected to the surrounding landscape, while remaining sheltered and comfortable throughout the year. Each courtyard had a unique theme, configuration and spatial quality; several were strategically located to shelter the existing trees on site.

Brampton gets to work on arts and culture master plan: City announces consulting team to lead strategy

City council has hired consultants to draft up a road map for arts and culture for the next 10 years.

Following a request for proposals process launched over the summer, consultants Lord Cultural Resources and Nordicity have been chosen to develop the city’s strategic direction for arts and culture planning. Consultants will work with community-based steering committee will “provide expertise, represent diverse interests and oversee the plan’s development.”

“A vibrant arts and culture scene is a key component of any great city. It attracts residents, businesses, investment and tourism,” Bob Darling, director of economic development and culture, said.

Bihar Museum's newly opened premises offer world-class display for state's cultural heritage.

A little over a week since its opening, the Bihar Museum has become Patna’s new ‘feel good’ destination. Patna residents are happy they now have a world class museum in their city. And art and culture aficionados find the museum’s modern structure — with its gleaming architecture and interiors, soothing lighting, beautifully displayed artefacts and lush green laws — an oasis of calm amid the crowds and congestion of Patna.

“A visitor can really feel the history of Bihar here,” said Vishi Upadhyay, curator of the Bihar Museum. “It is not merely a gallery of exhibits.”

The Canada-based Lord Cultural Resources (the world’s leading firm specialising in the planning and management of museums) was a consultant on the project, while the construction was executed by Larsen & Toubro.

Studio Libeskind’s National Holocaust Monument Opens in Ottawa

Studio Libeskind has finished work on the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada. The monument, located near the Canadian War Museum, honors the millions of victims killed under the Nazi regime and the survivors who emigrated to Canada.

Studio Libeskind collaborated with Burtynsky, Lord Cultural Resources, landscape architect Claude Cormier, and Holocaust scholar Doris Bergen to see the monument through to completion.

National Holocaust Monument / Studio Libeskind

The National Holocaust Monument, established through the National Holocaust Monument Act by the Government of Canada, will ensure a permanent, national symbol that will honor and commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and recognize Canadian survivors. Through an international design competition, Lord Cultural Resources and its multidisciplinary and multicultural team, was selected to create the Monument for the Government of Canada.