Zeidler Announces Addition to Calgary Partnership Team

Architect James Brown, with more than 19 years of experience, has joined the Calgary Partnership Team.

James Brown

​​​​Zeidler Architecture, an architecture firm in Canada, has announced that the company’s Calgary partnership team has expanded, bringing on architect James Brown. Brown, who spent 19 years working for Bing Thom Architects as Project Architect and Director is set to start his new position at Zeidler on January 8, 2018.

Zeidler’s partners are innovators, trendsetters and experts in their craft. Their team of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and planners are guided by the shared desire to deliver excellent design. Brown will be working in collaboration with Calgary partners, Vaidila Banelis, Stephen Bugbee, Bill Mitchell, Jean Guy Beliveau and Sean Crawford.

We are excited to welcome James Brown to our expanding Calgary Partnership Team. For more than 60 years, Zeidler has offered clients a dedicated team of creative minds whose craft and vision is shaped and informed by sound practical expertise. James will bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to his new position.

Vaidila Banelis, Executive Partner

Brown has worked as an architect since completion of his Masters of Architecture from the University of British Columbia in 1998. He has professional affiliation with Architectural Institute of British Columbia, Alberta Association of Architects and is a member of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada. While at Bing Thom, Brown has been Director of many of the firm's key institutional and cultural projects, which include Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and MacEwan University's Allard Hall in Edmonton, Alberta.

“We are excited to welcome James Brown to our expanding Calgary Partnership Team,” says Vaidila Banelis, Executive Partner. “For more than 60 years, Zeidler has offered clients a dedicated team of creative minds whose craft and vision is shaped and informed by sound practical expertise. James will bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to his new position.”

Zeidler provides accessible, sustainable and evidence-based design through an integrated delivery process, working diligently with the input of clients and collaborators. Their portfolio includes a range of work including civic and academic buildings, commercial and residential properties, healthcare and research facilities, performing arts centers, and hotels and resorts. Zeidler strives to create buildings that are enduring, relevant and inventive as well as contribute to their communities and are catalysts for new ways of thinking. For more information, visit Zeidler.com.

About Zeidler Architecture

Zeidler Architecture is a Canadian full service architectural firm focused on design excellence, innovation and working with clients in a range of complex project types. One of the longest continually running practices in North America, Zeidler is based in Toronto, Ontario and has an international reach with offices in Calgary, Victoria, London, Berlin, Beijing, Chengdu, and Abu Dhabi. For more information, visit Zeidler.com.

Source: Zeidler Partnership Architects

About Zeidler Architecture

We are innovators, trendsetters and experts of our craft. Our team of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and planners are guided by the shared desire to deliver excellent design.

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