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it was a great opportunity.
“I was 27 years old, so it was amajor responsi-
bility of a large building of 60, 000 square-feet,”
recalls Sweetapple. “I had a lot of support our
partnership firm Fowler Bauld and Mitchell,
but from a design point of view I was right in
there everyday. It was an amazing experience
as a young architect to work with Brian on such
an important project.”
The company partnership was struck be-
tween Sweetapple and MacKay-Lyons soon
after, which was great for a young architect.
Post-secondary facilities became one of his
specialties. From academic buildings they
started moving into massive cultural projects
such as the Canadian Chancery and Residence
in Dhaka, Bangladesh, museums, and a few
privately run art galleries. Presently the firm is
working on an art gallery in Fredericton, New
Brunswick.
The most monumental milestone project
the firm has completed to date according to
Sweetapple has to be the Canadian Chancery
and Residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh. And per-
haps the most extensive, it was an eight-year
long process. The firm had a responsibility to
be consistent in the architectural structure
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