Check out this time lapse video of the interior installation of Lord Cultural
Resources latest project - G8 and G20 Summits International Media
Centre in Toronto! Visit the News section of our website for details.
Welcome
Lord Cultural Resources is a global professional practice dedicated to creating cultural capital worldwide.
We collaborate with people and organizations in the visioning, planning and implementation of cultural places, programs and resources that deliver excellence in the service of society.
Lord Cultural Resources offers a comprehensive range of integrated services including master planning, business planning, feasibility studies, cultural and heritage tourism planning, strategic planning, facility planning, functional programming, architect selection, interpretive planning, exhibition design, project management, training and recruitment. Our cultural projects include museums, cultural centres, art galleries, science centres, world expositions, visitor centres, heritage sites, festivals, archives, libraries and gardens.
The Government of Canada selected Lord Cultural Resources to design, build and manage a series of engaging, interactive, technologically-enhanced and story-driven exhibits for the International Media Centre in Toronto for the 2010 Muskoka G-8 Summit and the Toronto G-20 Summit. Lord Vice President Maria Piacente is leading a team of specialist firms that includes Hariri Pontarini Architects (design), Infinite Stage Design (lighting, A/V, and operations support), Astound Group (fabrication), and Nüssli Canada (event logistics). Lord Cultural Resources is responsible for overall project management, exhibit design, as well as event programming and operations management. For further information, visit the “Experience Canada” section of the G-20 Summit website by clickinghere.
International Media Centre Cityscape. Image: HPA and Lord Cultural Resources.
Ontario House at Canada's 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
Lord Cultural Resources, along with a team of leading Ontarian firms led by general contractor EllisDon, was selected by Ontario's Ministry of Tourism to design, build and manage Ontario House at Canada's 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Lord Cultural Resources helped with the Creative and Program Development for Ontario House's dynamic presence!
Ontario House opened to the public on February 12, 2010 at 10 am and
runs to the closing of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games on March
1st at 2 am. Ontario House sets a new standard in creativity and
innovation with exciting and original exhibits, events and performances,
showcasing made-in-Ontario products and services, and state-of-the-art
technologies.
Check out InteraXon's Bright Ideas attraction that lets you use your brain waves to turn on the lights at the CN tower!
Thriving Longwood Gardens Seeks Global Standing
Longwood Gardens, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, is earning international recognition as one of the great gardens of the world. Lord Cultural Resources' New York and Toronto offices are delighted to be working with Director Paul Redman and his talented staff as they create and curate Longwood's future. Longwood Gardens was featured in the annual Museums Special Section of The New York Times on March 18, 2010.
Photo by L. Albee/Longwood Gardens
FRAGRANT TOUCH Orchids adorn the entrance to the music room in Longwood’s Conservatory Exhibition Hall, where a perfume exhibit is planned.
Marking the Spot: Gail and Barry Lord
From Seattle to Saadiyat Island, Gail and Barry Lord have overseen the creation of more museums than most of us visit in a lifetime. As founders of a hugely influential consulting firm, the Toronto couple have shaped 1,700 institutions, including some of the world’s most beloved cultural centres. Their work has not only given them an unmatched vantage on the state of the modern museum, writes Carol Kino, it has given them remarkable power to define it.
Read the full feature article in “The Review” section of The National, the English newspaper of Abu Dhabi, by clicking here.
Cultural Change and Public Gardens
Gail Dexter Lord and Barry Lord, Co-Presidents of Lord Cultural Resources presented the keynote address “Cultural Change and Public Gardens” webcasted live on March 5 at the Longwood Graduate Program Annual Symposium: People, Plans, Collections: Making the Connection on March 5 at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Culture is constantly changing – and never more so than in our contemporary world. As it changes, so do the ideas and values associated with or expected from public gardens. Gail Dexter Lord and Barry Lord will explore the connections between people, plants, and collections at public gardens in this age of constant and sweeping cultural change.
Click here for the paper and here for the presentation. To watch the recorded webcast, follow this link and select the category of "Longwood Graduate Program Symposium".
Photo courtesy of Longwood Gardens
Artists, Patrons, and the Public:
Why Culture Changes
by Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord
In their new book, Barry and Gail Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions of why and how culture changes. They situate their discourse on aesthetic culture within a broad and inclusive definition of culture in relation to material, physical and socio-political cultures.
This book is intended for artists, students, and teachers of art history, museum studies, cultural studies, and philosophy, and for cultural workers in all media and disciplines. It is above all intended for those who think of themselves first as audience because we are all participants in cultural change.
Place your order nowusing promo code B10LORD20 to get a special discount offer of 20% off from the publisher, AltaMira Press.
