Gold, crystal, champagne – everything you think of when you think of The Luxury. That’s the world we stepped into when Kodu Design asked 3DS to build a fitting enclosure for Vancouver’s new Holborn show suite. We worked with designer Merike Lainevool to create a wraparound shell of undulating, faceted, floor-to-ceiling gold millwork that resembles …
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke Of Edinburgh were the first passengers to arrive at the Winnipeg Airport’s new terminal, on July 3rd, 2010. As a key part of the terminal‘s dedication ceremony Queen Elizabeth II came with a special mission for the future youth of Manitoba: a signed an official letter to …
If ever 3DS built a contemporary mall kiosk, Culture Craze is it. Mall kiosks are the perfect format for this innovative specialty chain of body piercing jewelry and hardware mini-retailers. The format has an edgy, “guerrilla” quality, which appeals naturally to its market, as does the rough, “street-level” kiosk design aesthetic. Planting one of …
Designed by Waddell and Conder, the Tobiano exhibit and real estate presentation center is a textbook example of a controlled sales environment. The center stands on the former site of one of BC’s largest ranches, outside Kamloops, BC, at a major nexus of historic routes and railway connections. The building itself is freestanding, and built …
The Syncrude Environments Gallery is an interactive tour de force. 3DS was commissioned to build all exhibits, with design by AldrichPears Associates and AV content by NGX Interactive. The exhibit gallery boasts twenty-seven stations with fully interactive science exhibits, all engagingly hands-on and driving deep into Alberta’s fascinating natural history. In this graphics-intensive space, great …
OUTDOOR: 3DS creates durable, 3D topographical models suitable for year-round outdoor duty. Models are made from cast bronze, or, if budget is an issue, we can create a lightweight fibreglass model, coated with our own proprietary bronze finishing process that is indistinguishable from the real thing. In a project for Whistler/Blackcomb, with an objective …
Designed by Victoria’s Andre and Associates, the “Oregon: Yours, Mine; Ours” exhibit offers a history of the state through the Twentieth Century. One special part of the gallery is a historical look at Oregon‘s Black community, while another addresses the issue of modern-day homelessness. In a reverent nod to Oregon’s Sixties counterculture, 3DS created …
With a constricted timeframe, the Barbados government asked 3DS to create a temporary exhibit showcasing its many efforts toward environmental sustainability. With only six weeks to the World Cricket Championships and an anticipated heavy surge in important visitor traffic, 3DS, working with Waddell and Conder, took a relatively small repurposed building within the Harrison’s …
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is the Government museum and archives, located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The complex itself is very large and in these two wildlife habitat galleries 3DS created expansive simulated environments that display animals of the North in their natural environments. Taxidermy moose, muskox and even full sized models …
The Gulf Of Georgia Cannery Museum is located inside an historic cannery in British Columbia’s Steveston Cannery district, a National Historic Site. 3DS restored and showcased a number of original artifacts, recreated others, developed interpretive exhibits and staged all of it in this long-inactive salmon cannery. The museum’s centerpiece is a massive interactive map …
