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Media

December 2011

Canadian Interiors- "On with the Show"

"The performing arts thrive and bloom at Simon Fraser University's gritty but glam Goldcorp Centre for the Arts."

January 2011

Georgia Straight - "Arts Club Theatre celebrates Granville Island venue renovations"

"Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre Company today (January 25) celebrated the completion of renovations to its two Granville Island venues with an official opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony."

September 2010

Vancouver Sun - "SFU Opens Doors on School for the Contemporary Arts"

"The impressive new arts centre has six public performance and exhibition venues equipped for dance, film, music, theatre, visual art and new digital media."

August 2010

Calgary Herald - "Renos Pave Way to Pumphouse Precinct"

"When the Pumphouse Theatre's renovation is completed in the fall of 2012, it will be able to hold more theatre patrons, and will offer a gathering place along the Bow River pathway."

Spring 2010

Montecristo Magazine - "Building Up the Arts"

"The Proscenium team was finally able to take a bow after four landmark local arts and cultural projects all opened their doors just prior to the Olympics..."

March 2010

The Globe and Mail - "Historic Buildings Ready for Next Act"

"Extending the life of an old building is not as straightforward as it sounds."

February 2010

Award Magazine - "Queen Elizabeth Theatre Renewal"

"After hearing from other Canadian theatres that closing for renovations had drastically hurt user groups, Ackerman and Thom Weeks, principal architect with Proscenium Architecture + Interiors Inc., developed a compromise..."

January 2010

The Globe and Mail - "Creative Hope for a Troubled 'Hood"

"SFU's Woodward's is part of a revolutionary mixed-use experiment on the site of a once-iconic department store in the Downtown Eastside."

November 2009

The Vancouver Sun - "Unveiling of a Prettier Queen E Caps Proscenium's Big Week"

"Friday's a big day for Proscenium Architecture + Interiors Inc. That'll be when folk first see what the city-based firm has accomplished with its makeover of the 50-year-old Queen Elizabeth Theatre's lobby and now-2,700-seat auditorium."

The Vancouver Sun - "An Old Queen Elizabeth Theatre Finds Her New Voice"

"The changes are significant and visually stunning."

October 2009

BC Business - "Build it and They Will Come"

"The brand-new Queen Elizabeth Theatre presents a great experience for patrons."

September 2009

Architecture BC - "Changing of the (Avante) Guard"

"Proscenium Architecture + Interiors Inc. is a firm in transition...Weeks and Stanley are preparing to retire from Proscenium, passing on their practice to the remaining principals..."

August 2009

The Vancouver Sun - "'The Cultch' Now a Jewel in East Van's Crown"

"What had been a beloved but hopelessly out of date arts venue is now reborn as the hottest spot in town..."

April 2009

Achieving Business Excellence - "Opportunity Meets Innovation"

"SFU is involved in another innovative collaboration that will create a new School for Contemporary Arts as part of a larger project that includes market-rate and affordable housing and retail spaces."

Architecture BC - "On with the Show"

"As works of architecture, [theatres] are vehicles by which good performing art is brought forth and sustained by a community."

Winter 2007

Architecture BC - "Winter Kudos"

"BC firm designs Canada's first LEED theatre"

July 2006

The Globe and Mail - "Separation Anxiety"

"For more than 40 years, the Vancouver Playhouse and Queen Elizabeth Theatre have been joined by steel brackets and a common concrete wall - and audiences have long had to deal with sound leaking from one venue to another."

May 2006

The Globe and Mail - "Bing Thom's Vision for a New Vancouver"

"If Toronto is the new Florence, ablaze with construction in an unprecedented cultural building boom, Vancouver is the new Venice."

July 2003

Canadian Architect - "Movements in Art"

"The redevelopment designed by Proscenium Architecture + Interiors Inc. began with a feasibility study to assess the [Surrey Art Centre's] needs and evolved to the addition of 21,000 square feet to an existing facility, to total 55,000 square feet on three levels."

January 2003

The Vancouver Sun - "Fine Example of Architectural Quilting"

"The renovation and extension of the Surrey Arts Centre has visitors thinking the brick and glass complex is completely new."

November/December 1999

Azure - "Fully Equipped"

"Here at [Mountain Equipment Co-op's] new headquarters, there is no product display, just a very emphatic architecture."