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business elite canada
H
AUGUST 2014
one-hit-wonder,” said company partner and
architect, Talbot Sweetapple, about this year’s
recognition.
The body of work that MacKay-Lyons Sweet-
apple has managed to achieve is consistent and
often stunning, to say the least. The company’s
extensive portfolio of cultural, academic and
residential projects that can be viewed online
at:
peaks for itself. The
company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia is com-
prised of two partners, that of its namesake—
Brian MacKay-Lyons and Talbot Sweetapple—
one senior associate and two associates. The
firm has 18 employees. When original partner,
Mackay-Lyons, founded the company 35 years
ago, he may not have imaged the magnitude
of the projects he would complete with fel-
