Zeidler Partnership Architects’ Calgary office has merged with the Calgary-based firm BKDI Architects. The new partnership will now be called Zeidler BKDI Architects, enabling the firm to provide a broader set of services to their clients.

This merger represents a combination of a shared culture and complementary practice strengths and is a natural transition from Zeidler and BKDI’s 15-year history of joint collaboration as a registered collaborative firm working in Alberta.

Zeidler’s senior partners Vaidila Banelis and Tarek El Khatib join Jean Guy Beliveau, Stephen Bugbee, Bill Mitchell and Catherine Richardson, partners at BKDI, to form the new partnership group. Michael Cojocar and Martin Veenhoven join Ross Roy of BKDI as principals and continue in their senior leadership roles.

The merger is in effect as of July 1, 2014. Zeidler BKDI Architects is a firm of 70 staff in Calgary, and will draw from the resources of Zeidler’s offices in Toronto, Victoria, London (UK), Berlin, Beijing, Chengdu, and Abu Dhabi.