2025 G7 Leader’s Summit

1x1 architecture was engaged by Public Services and Procurement Canada to help transform the existing 13,500 ft2 conference center located at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge for Global Affairs Canada as they prepared to host the G7 Leader’s Summit. The context of the site, The Kananaskis Mountain Range, creates a dramatic backdrop for the Summit and showcases the Canadian wilderness, helping to foster a sense of place. The dramatic peaks and inverted angles associated with the Rocky Mountains informed the design of the main Outreach Room where the G7 Nations and Outreach Countries come together on the last day of the Summit. Sixteen foot high rough-sawn spruce timbers were strategically placed in front of an existing curtain wall in the Outreach Room in order to visually extend the space into the landscape and accentuate the verticality of the room. The history and identity of the site as the Olympic Village for the 1988 Calgary Olympics also had a large impact on the design of the space.