Archello Awards · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced
Eastate Offices for Environment Canada
Darren Jacknisky and Bluefish Studios

Eastate Offices for Environment Canada

Reimagine Architects Ltd. as Architects

Eastgate Offices for Environment Canada (Eastgate) is a double agent. Although it functions as a healthy, sustainable office space for its occupants, the building is also a 24/7, mission critical facility ensuring Environment Canada’s important weather forecasting work continues under any circumstance.


The building programme posed a complex design challenge to the team. Eastgate would consume a lot of energy (due to the vast amount of electronics and the program's required redundancies), yet the building was mandated to meet LEED® Gold standards as per the federal government’s Public Works requirements. Boasting innovative sustainable technologies including the largest solar panel array in Western Canada, Eastgate deftly balances stringent sustainability standards, complex mechanical systems and myriad electronics with human comfort and aesthetics.


In 2013, Eastgate was named Alberta's Top Construction Project in the Commercial Design category.

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