Stuart Elgie

Stuart joined DIALOG after having acquired two decades in healthcare design with a major international architecture, design, and engineering practice. There, he held the role as Vice President, Health Sector Leader for Canada, and was Principal-in-Charge for both the $1.3B Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital and Phase 1C of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Stuart played a

Amit Price Patel

Amit is an architect and city planner deeply committed to making inclusive cities of opportunity and human connection. Motivated by his vision of urban places that promote climate resiliency and social equity, Amit has led the design of diverse complex city-shaping projects throughout his career. At DIALOG, Amit collaborates with clients, colleagues and community members

Architecture at Zero 2020 competition – our submission

TELUS Spark

Designed to be an exemplary educational facility and teaching tool, TELUS Spark integrates four themed pavilions: Life Sciences, Space Earth and Environment, Technology and Design, and Energy and Innovation. It hosts approximately half a million visitors a year and doubles the capacity of the previous facility while reducing energy use. The high performance building envelope

The Park

The building’s 62 luxury residences are delicately crafted with expansive interiors that unfold onto vast balconies overlooking San Diego. The design team, having examined the public realm, local San Diego culture, and the city’s pleasurable weather, designed floorplans that blur the sense of indoor / outdoor. These unprecedented balconies are juxtaposed with warm internal material

The Mark

The Mark is a 43-storey market residential / mixed-use condominium tower in Vancouver’s Yaletown neighbourhood, situated on one of the main corridors into the city’s downtown core. The building is located on a challenging site at the intersection of Seymour and Pacific, and boasts 360 degree views out over the city and North Shore mountains.

Innovative Fitness at TELUS Garden

An under-utilized lower level space in the iconic TELUS Garden building in downtown Vancouver was chosen as the home of Innovative Fitness’s newest gym location. The design team was challenged with satisfying both TELUS and Innovative Fitness’ requirements and expectations for this new facility. The clients shared a desire to create a flagship gym while

Exchange Residence and UBC Bus Exchange

This unique transit-oriented project is the product of a long-term development collaboration between DIALOG, the University of British Columbia (UBC), and TransLink. UBC wanted to build more student beds and TransLink had a mandate to deliver a new bus exchange, but both were running into space constraints on campus. The team came up with an

Francis Winspear Centre for Music

The Francis Winspear Centre for Music grew out of the community’s love for music. With a budget deemed impossible by a wide variety of experts, DIALOG assembled a fully integrated team that rose to the challenge of designing an international quality, acoustic music hall. The Centre has expanded the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s audience and attracted

Q&A with DIALOG Healthcare Designer Magdalena Warshawski