Goodbye dear lounge. Hello open air.
What remains of our lounge Have you been wondering what’s going on behind that temporary hoarding wall?  Well, it appears to be a nice new open air balcony, where the staff and student lounges used to be.  Given the cold mornings we’ve been having lately,  I don’t think we’ll find anyone sunbathing out there. I’ve been wondering how the construction wou

Artist Attack on Construction Site
Fine Arts students display their work Looks like our Fine Arts students have been hard at work.  They struck under the cover of darkness (Ok, so maybe it was just when I wasn’t in the building) and  turned our rather bland hoarding wall into an impromptu gallery.  Stroll by and take a look.  Any budding Emily Carrs, Bill Reids, Tom Thomsons, or Robert Batemans out there? Tell us about yo

Head’s Up! The walls came tumblin’ down.
Ok, so the walls aren’t really tumbling down, but they are being disassembled brick by brick. Glad to see that the snow Mother Nature dumped on us earlier this week didn’t slow down the work on the expansion. There’s been a lot of digging going on, and today I noticed that workers were removing the bricks from the outside walls.  Looks like complete demolition can’t

The walls are coming down … and going back up again.
Removing the walls - staff lounge The new hoarding wall We’ve been waiting for it for a little while now, but the d

Time to start thinking about alternatives to parking
If you’ve been around the Cranbrook campus, you might be wondering why you haven’t seen any action on the construction front. Well, a lot of work is actually taking place, but most of it isn’t something that staff, students, or the general public will notice. Things like construction tenders, utilities relocation, and general planning have been going full-force.  Check out the