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Remai Modern

Location
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Client
City of Saskatoon and the Remai Modern

Architects
KPMB Architects (Design Architect); Architecture49 (Prime Consultant)

Completion
2017

Size
126,000 ft² / 11,706 m²

Project Type
Culture, Museum / Gallery

Sustainability
LEED® Silver certified

KPMB Team
Bruce Kuwabara (design partner), Shirley Blumberg (partner-in-charge), Matthew Wilson (associate), Paulo Rocha (associate), Matthew Krivosudsky, Terry Kim, Marcus Colonna, David Poloway, Klaudia Lengyel, Jessica Juvet

Architecture49 Team
Grant Van Iderstine (architect of record), Ron Martin (senior contract administrator), Brad Cove (project coordinator), Jim Yamashita, Rick Linley, Corrine Golden, Phil Harms, Geoffrey Bulmer, Calee Gushuliak, Ian Douglas

Consultants
Entuitive (structural), Crossey Engineering (mechanical), Mulvey + Banani (electrical),  Transsolar (climate), Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (landscape architecture), Turner & Townsend cm2r (cost), Daniel Lyzun & Associates (acoustics), Aercoustics Engineering Ltd. (vibration), Mulvey + Banani (security, IT, AV), Enermodal (LEED), MMM Group (civil, transportation), Leber | Rubes (building code), Tillotson Design Associates (lighting), Kaizen Foodservice Planning & Design (food services)

Photography
Tom Arban, Nic Lehoux, Adrien Williams

Awards
2020 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture
2019 Civic Trust Award
2018 Prairie Design Award of Excellence
2018 Ontario Association of Architects Award of Design Excellence
2011 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence

Press
Sotheby – INSIGHT, April 2021
Canadian Art, May 2020
The Globe and Mail, May 2020
Canadian Architect, May 2020
The Globe and Mail, March 2020
Breaking Ground – Architecture by Women, October 2019
Canadian Architect, July 2019 
Architecture Quote, June 2019
Travel Pulse, January 2019
Architectural Digest, November 2018
Western Exteriors Magazine, Summer 2018
Architizer, August 2018
World Architecture, April 2018 
Dezeen, January 2018
Canadian Architect, January 2018
Azure Magazine, December 2017
Wallpaper*, December 2017
gooood, December 2017
Award Magazine, December 2017
Frieze, December 2017
ARCHITECT, November 2017
The Guardian, November 2017
ArchDaily, November 2017
Dezeen, November 2017
SHARP Magazine, November 2017
Elle Decoration Russia, November 2017
Wallpaper*, October 2017
CTV News, October 2017
The Globe and Mail, October 2017
Departures, September 2017 
e-flux, September 2017
SURFACE, September 2017
The Wall Street Journal, September 2017
NUVO magazine, September 2017
Architectural Digest, September 2017
enRoute, August 2014 
PR Newswire, June 2017
The Globe and Mail, March 2017
The New York Times, January 2017
Canadian Architect, December 2011