Berry Architecture + Associates
5218 50th Ave Suite 200 T4N 4B5 Red Deer, AB, Canada

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Project Recap: 4311 Centre is a new four-storey office and retail complex in Red Deer. Located on the site of the former Inland Concrete plant, the new complex will have retail outlets on the main floor with office space on the remaining floors. There will be underground parking as well as on-site parking. This project is an excellent use of a former industrial site. It is located in the downtown region and re-uses vacant industrial land; thus, no farmland is destroyed, limit...ing urban sprawl and reclaiming an existing site. An extensive traffic impact study was required for the project, and traffic flow will be improved by the new accesses to the property. 4311 Centre is currently under construction, with construction getting closer and closer to completion. There are many exciting updates coming with this project as is nears closer to completion so be sure to check back as more updates become available! See more

We would like to send out a huge thank you again to everyone who attended any of the community engagement sessions over the last 5 weeks for the new Wheatland Seniors Lodge and Hospice facility. All of the sessions and each of the presentations been uploaded to the project website so please be sure to check it out if you happened to miss anything over the past month. All of the community engagement information will be available on the project website for the duration of the e...ntire project, so please also keep checking back from project updates as we progress further with the design. We would also really appreciate it if everyone could take 10 minutes to fill in the final questionnaire to let us know how we did and what you thought of the online community engagement process. The questionnaire will be available for the next week and will close Friday November 13th at noon. Thank you all again! https://www.berryarchitecture.ca/community-engag/wheatland/ See more

Clover Bar Lodge in Sherwood Park, AB is very close to being complete! Angela has been busy over the last couple of week conducting deficiency reviews of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors, with the main floor soon behind this week. We are all very excited to see this facility so close to the end.

Just a quick reminder that we have our fifth and final community engagement session for the new Wheatland Lodge and Hospice facility starting at 7pm this evening! We will be running a quick recap of last weeks session starting at 6:50pm so feel free to login in a few minutes early for that. Use the following link to find the Zoom link to this evenings session: https://www.berryarchitecture.ca/event/session-5/ We look forward to seeing you all there! Town of StrathmoreWheatland Lodge Wheatland & Area Hospice Society

Berry Architecture + Associates will be hosting the fifth and final session of our community engagement series for the new Wheatland Lodge and Hospice project in Strathmore, Alberta. You are invited to join this week’s online session on Thursday, November 5th to provide your input, learn more about the project, talk about important design principles to consider, and engage in the main discussion: How does the built environment promote healthy living and sustainable communitie...s? This week we will be doing a full summary of what we heard throughout the previous four sessions. The goal for this session is to gather the final comments from the community about what the important design feature are for the new Wheatland Lodge and Hospice Care facility. This session will be live on Zoom, as always, from 7-8pm and the zoom link can be located on the Berry Architecture website at the following link: https://www.berryarchitecture.ca/community-engag/wheatland/ If you are not able to attend the live event, don’t worry! The session will be recorded and uploaded to the community engagement’s website. All of the recordings will be made available throughout the duration of the project, and access to the final questionnaire regarding the virtual community engagement sessions will be made available online for people to answer as well for 1 week after the final live session. Be sure to check out our website to see the recordings of our previous sessions if you happened to miss the any of the events or if you would like a quick refresher! We look forward to seeing everyone again this Thursday live on Zoom!

Just a quick reminder that we have our fourth community engagement session for the new Wheatland Lodge and Hospice facility starting at 7pm this evening! We will be running a quick recap of last weeks session starting at 6:50pm so feel free to login in a few minutes early for that. We have also uploaded this evenings questions to the project website which you can find at the following link: https://www.berryarchitecture.ca/event/session-4/ We look forward to seeing you all there! Town of Strathmore Wheatland Lodge Wheatland & Area Hospice Society

Berry Architecture has a long-term relationship assisting the Central Alberta Immigrant Women's Association. Our talented Architectural Designer, Jherlyn, came to us through CAIWA's job placement program and has been with us ever since! We have done pro bono work for the group beginning with their first space in the River Valley building. They have now purchased their own building in downtown Red Deer, and we are helping them with a tenant fit-up project to modify their main floor to include classroom space, computer lab, preschool classroom, commercial kitchen, and meeting space. The second floor will have two more offices added to the layout. RBW Consulting Ltd. and 908 Engineering are also assisting with this pro bono project.

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Berry Architecture has a new project in Pincher Creek Alberta! This project in a conversion of the UFA building in Pincher Creek to a new Ford Dealership - Castle Ford. The project is following the latest and most updated Ford Canada Signature Design Criteria standards. The shell of the former building and the parking lot will be re-used in the renovation and expansion, which will also convert the existing mezzanine to a second floor. The new dealership will feature a generou...s showroom, waiting area/coffee bar, bullpen (compact showroom), purchase rooms, offices, admin space, retail parts display/department, staff room/lunch room, large service bay, small service bay/drive-through, storage room, washrooms and parking lot/show space. It's been several years since we last completed a Ford dealership, so it was fun to work with the new design standards! See more

In our office, our designers like to visualize new project designs with hand sketches. By using trace paper, they can quickly sketch out similarly size buildings and start playing around with how they want materials to site on the building and what features they want to stand out on each elevation. This is also a quick exercise that can help them understand what our clients are looking for in the design and what they do and don't like about the different styles without having to spend a lot of time inputting information on the computer!

This week we had other fun social club activity to keep us busy. This month we did a craft at the office and all of the participants were able to decorate 3 mason jars for fall! They can be used as candle holders, for little gifts or just general decoration! It was a creative couple of lunches for everyone who participated. Thank you to Tracy Wells for the lovely little photo shoot she had with her completed jars!

Clover Bar Lodge is getting closer and closer to construction being finished! Lots of the little details are finally coming together which makes us all very excited in the office! We cannot wait to see what everything looks like once construction is finished, but in the mean time, can we all appreciate how amazing this ceiling looks!

Lots of work is getting done out at 4311 Centre here in Red Deer. Windows are being installed around the building and the brick exterior cladding is starting to look really great! Stay tuned for more updates on this project as work continues to progress!

We are honoured to be a finalist for the second year in a row!

Over the last few month, Berry Architecture has had the opportunity to help a number of school throughout central Alberta start and mostly wrap up some small little projects for the beginning of the new school year. One of these projects included washroom renovations for Fairview Elementary School in Red Deer. Look at how cool and fun the new tile design looks in the updated washrooms!

Congratulations to all the nominees for this year's Professional Services Excellence Award, sponsored by B104 Total Country and 102.9 The Drive Tune in to our s...ocials and cranbrookchamber.com next Wednesday September 9th at 2 p.m. when we will reveal the recipient of this award! The nominees are: Laurie Goodlad - Real Estate Professional Laurie is a leader in the Real Estate industry she is outgoing and REAL. She comes highly recommended. Jason Wheeldon Personal Real Estate Corporation Jason is the epitome of professional service excellence. His dedication to integrity is unmatched. It is difficult to maintain complete objectivity and conviction in one's method in an industry where a professional opinion is often challenged. Cranbrook is fortunate to have such a paragon of integrity, of which his immense success is a testament. Berry Architecture + Associates Delivering thoughtful, well developed, dynamic architecture to clients. Use of new 3D equipment to assist in the planning stages. The Hearing Loss Clinic The Hearing Loss Clinics mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of our clients. Empowering people to be socially active and more connected with love ones. Helping people hear better is our way of helping people live better. Tarralin D. Hanson, Notary Public Tarralin's dedication to her clients and growing her business is inspiring. The way she works with seniors in estate and life planning turns it from a grim process, to something positive. She has the highest expectations of herself in her business, all the while being an incredible mom and local sports coach. Commitment to Care Resources Ltd If you need in home health care for an aging parent these are the people you want to talk to. Providing professional and high quality income care. Westland Insurance Friendly, proficient, helpful, they go out of their way to assist clients anyway possible. Apex Accounting Chartered Professional Accountants Great corporate citizens. Very involved in fundraising for the community. Have just expanded operations into Creston. Kootenay Canine Adventures I am nominating Kootenay Canine Adventures to commemorate the diligence and trust Ty Kreutzer and Justin Keeler have established with their customers and their company. They continuously go beyond expectations when dealing with their clients and their pets, have grown their business tremendously throughout the past year as well as continued to provide excellent service through their expansion. #cbkbusinessexcellence2020 See more

We are very pleased and honoured to have been nominated and named a Platinum Level winner for Best Architect in 2020 by Community Votes Red Deer! Thank you so much to our friends, clients, community and supporters. We appreciate the patronage and support from everyone over the years! We would also like to say congratulations to our fellow winners who made the list as well.

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Earlier this month our office was able to enjoy our first social club event of the summer our of the office! We all had a great time down at Lakeside Go Karts & Mini-Golf in Sylvan Lake. Everyone had lots of fun and many laughs were shared throughout the evening.

We have started construction on another new building! This project in located in Beaver County, Alberta and will serve as the new administration building for the Beaver Municipal Solutions out of Ryley. This building is targeting a LEED silver certification and will be completed with solar panels on the roof. We are all looking forward to seeing this project come to life, so stay tuned for more updates on all of our social media pages!

For those who may have missed the big news in town, the old Westpark Middle School was demolished this past weekend. The 50-year-old building was replaced this past school year with the new Westpark Middle School designed by Berry Architecture. A couple of our key team members from the project stopped by the demolition site on Friday to watch the beginning of the tear down. We are all so excited to see the new school take command of the site now that the old school is gone and we are looking forward to the next steps in completing this addition to the West Park and Red Deer community!

There has been a lot of activity out at the Clover Bar Lodge construction site over the last few weeks! Construction is moving along nicely and lots of work has been done on the interiors. Painting, flooring and millwork are all being done inside!

Last week one of our Project Managers, Tracy, was able to head out to Olds College to complete a 1 year warranty review of the Student Lounge and Bookstore.

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The new Ing + Mckee site is still growing! Ing + Mckee has been on site now for quite some time, and the addition of the Red Deer Registries joined the site not long ago. This building also feature 2 other leasable bays that can be filled. Be sure to keep your eyes open for more updates on this site for all the new and exciting additions in the south end of Red Deer!

Construction down at 4311 Centre is progressing nicely. This new building will feature a variety of retail outlets and office spaces, includes an underground parkade and is located on the site of the former Inland Concrete plant so no farmland was destroyed and urban sprawl was limited with this project. Stay tuned for more updates on this project as construction progresses!

Even with all of the technology at our fingertips, our designers still like to grab some pens and hand sketch ideas for projects.

Our rendering team and designers have been hard at work developing our design for the Kimberly Housing project. This will feature a mix of residential and main floor commercial retail units with a total of 42 townhouse units. There will also be 8 main floor commercial bays. Stayed tuned for more updates on this project in the BC central interior.

Another BC project included an indoor sports facility in Cranbrook. The facility is designed to be an air-supported dome with artificial turf to provide year-round access to field-based sports.

We have all been very excited about one of our latest projects from BC over the last few months. Purcell Collegiate will be an international boarding school for Grades 7-12, located in the picturesque Marysville region of Kimberley, BC. Offering specialized opportunities in STEM courses, including robotics and AI, as well as enhanced languages, fine arts, and NCAA athletics, the new school will be comprised of both international and Canadian students. As this is a boarding school, our design brief encompasses the school itself, with all junior and senior high amenities, including gym and specialized labs, as well as student residences, cafeteria/dining, and outdoor sports courts. Stay tuned for more updates as this project progresses!

Berry Architecture has been working hard putting together a 3-D tour of a new project in British Columbia! Purcell Collegiate will be an international boarding school for Grades 7-12, located in the picturesque Marysville region of Kimberley, B.C. Check out our full fly-through video of the design and stay tuned for more updates on this amazing project!

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Coming soon! The amazing team at Berry Architecture + Associates is putting together a 3-D tour of the entire Purcell Collegiate School campus. For now, here's a quick fly-through as a preview. Stay tuned for more updates! #intled #studyinbc #purcellcollegiate #kimberleybc

Parkland Lodge in Edson, Alberta is almost complete! A second round of deficiency reviews were completed this week and everything should be wrapping up very shortly. We are excited to see the building with grass and landscaping all around it now and are all looking forward to the Grand Opening of this seniors lodge!

Renderings can come in many forms. We can make realistic renders with materials and entourage. We can also make renders that have more of a sketch-like appearance. These show more of the intent of the design rather than the materials intended to be used. The Ing + McKee Insurance building had examples of both types of renders and we love how they all turned out!

Another recent residential project of ours! Berry Architecture was hired to provide architectural consulting services for a new residence in Cranbrook, BC. Our residential design team took initial sketches and comments from the client to develop the design of this 3-bedroom home. Contact our office for all of your residential consulting services!

Today we had a very special celebration for Tracy's 20 year anniversary with Berry Architecture! We are all so thankful for your knowledge, expertise, hard work, dedication, beautiful smile and incredible voice (Happy Birthday just wouldn't be the same in the office without you guiding us along!) Congratulation Tracy, we hope you loved the decorations, surprises and powerpoint full of photos. We all look forward to all the years to come!

Berry Architecture has been busy developing a housing design for the City of Kimberley. This site has been designed for a mix of residential and main floor commercial retail units. There are a total of 42 townhouse units that include Bungalow style, MEWS style, Roof Top style, and Mixed Use style. There are also 8 commercial bays incorporated on the site with the Mixed Use townhouse units.

This design exercise explored the design of a gas station and convenience store. The project was designed with lots of wood accents to relate to the surrounding forestry and nature. There is lots of space to add in a small restaurant area and future expansion of a car wash and more!

Taylor was out earlier this week at the 1800 sq.ft. renovation of the Southern Alberta Society for the Handicapped (SASH) in Magrath, Alberta. She completed a deficiency review of the building and construction will soon be wrapping up down there! The new space will provide additional office space, a board room, a teaching kitchen and a larger multi-purpose space. Along with these new additions, additional renovations were made to the existing building to enhance what SASH can offer to persons with disabilities in terms of programmings, services and community outreach.

Did you know that Berry Architecture has residential design in our portfolio. We are ready to help you design the new home of your dreams! Be sure to head over to our website and fill out the Residential Consultation form on our Contact tab to be directed to our residential design team.

At Berry Architecture, we are very invested in keeping our office as green as possible. On our green roof we have 3 composting bins that we use daily. Yesterday a couple of our employees were able to take compost out of the bins to fill up our gardening troughs! We can't wait to start growing our vegetables again this summer now that our troughs are full of rich, nutrient compost!

Construction is progressing out at Clover Bar Lodge in Sherwood Park. The exterior cladding is nearing closer and closer to completion and the interiors are moving along as well. Interior walls are being painted and millwork is getting installed throughout the building. We continue to look forward to seeing this project progress toward completion!

At Berry Architecture, we utilize incredible rendering programs that help us create realistic renders of how the design is intended to look once construction is complete! We are able to input the different materials, paint colours, landscaping and even people to the renders to make them look as realistic as possible. This rendered image of Westpark Middle School is so close to how the final design turned out which will always be cool to see. Be sure to contact our office to learn more about our rendering and architectural services.