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Meet the man who designs ski resorts No fewer than 370 ski areas have been developed with the help of Ecosign, the company founded by Paul Mathews, the architect of Sochi. Ben Clatworth...

WHISTLER, July 31, 2015 – Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners of Whistler British Columbia, would like to congratulate the Beijing Bid Committee on successfully being awarded the honour of...

Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners, the international firm that calls Whistler home, can add another Olympic feather to its cap — Beijing 2022. Ecosign has designed the snow cluster venu...

Submitted by Paul Mathews Sochi ski course Ecosigns’ Paul Mathews presents plans for Rosa Khutor to members of the IOC in February 2007. Had it not been for some homegrown Whistler expe...

The post Ryley Thiessen – A look at the changing face of ski areas through the eyes of one of the world’s leading ski resort designers. appeared first on Ecosign....

Whistler Olympic Park designer Paul Mathews has helped craft 320 ski areas in 34 countries, including Switzerland, where being a ski bum inspired his life’s work. The 62-year-old Americ...

Give her the facts and figures – topographical contours, roads, rivers, lakes, tree lines, proposed building footprints, parking lots and lifts and perhaps a few photos – and she’ll giv...

The last time Russia hosted an Olympic event, the world was a very different place. It was the Moscow Summer Games of 1980, and some 24 countries boycotted, including the U.S., because ...

2014 Olympic bid putting Sochi on the map On July 4, the 111 members of the International Olympic Committee will gather in Guatemala City to decide who will host the 2014 Winter Olympic...

He’s the Forrest Gump of the ski business. And like the fictional movie character, he’s never forgotten his roots. Although Kiwi Roger McCarthy is now considered one of the most influen...

Few things are more European than Alpine skiing, which was developed in the Alps a century ago. But today, many of these old-style, resorts rich in tradition are being redesigned by a m...

The ski resorts of Hasliberg, in the Bernese Oberland, with Engelberg-Titlis, and the Melchsee-Frutt ski area in Central Switzerland are planning to connect their ski slopes. In connect...