The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, February 2020, may seem like an inopportune time for Nanaimo, a small port city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to open a 16,000-square-foot expansion to its airport. But Nick Foster, a principal of the Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers (OMB), the Vancouver-based firm that helmed the $13-million project in association with Checkwitch Poiron Architects, disagrees.
