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Malcolm Hotel
Discipline : Urban Design, Landscape Architecture & Landscaping
Categories : Landscape Architecture / Green Roof : Bronze Certification
From coal mine tailings to mountain village, the redevelopment of this Brownfield site is an innovative endeavor in the Town of Canmore. The proposed development envisions a vibrant, pedestrian oriented, sustainable community of rich social and urban texture, distinct yet well connected to the surrounding environment. The plan allows for the preservation and rehabilitation of natural areas, sensibly introduced higher density with a variety of housing types and commercial uses, to create a live, work and play community. Part of this vision is the development of The Malcolm Hotel to aid in the transformation of turning this former coal-mining town into a tourist hub that competes with popular adjacent destinations like Banff or Kananaskis.
Canmore originally was a railway hub founded two years before Calgary; and many of the men laying the railway track and tasked with naming the towns along the way were Scottish immigrants. Canmore is an anglicized version of the Gaelic for “Great Chief,” which is a nickname for the Scottish King Malcolm III. The design for the green roof and the paving patterns are inspired by the Malcolm tartan and the Canmore Highland Games Scottish tartan.
The roof of the conference centre is a prominent element in the views from the second level amenity spaces and the hotel rooms. The Scottish Highlands tartan pattern provides an apt foreground to the stunning panorama of the Rocky Mountains.
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Architect : MTA Architecture
