Manasc Isaac, in collaboration with Sturgess Architecture, designed the Visitor Reception Centre to act as a symbolic and physical staging post for travellers along the Alaska Highway. The building has  become a recognizable landmark with a distinctive shape that references both the simplicity of an overturned canoe and the organic nature of the skeleton of a fish.

The linear structure of the building works well with the landscape and allows for a comfortable, logical progression as tourists wander through the displays to the 200-seat audio-visual theatre. This project won the Governor General's Award Medal of Excellence, Canada's most prestigious recognition of achievement in the field.

"The spare, yet elegant configuration invokes the organic delicacy of a fish skeleton or the functional simplicity of a kayak frame, inspired by the north Canadian vernacular tradition of solving technical problems with the simplest and most basic of means.
"Now weary travellers can look forward to invigorating pit-stop on their journey through the Yukon in a building that responds to the pioneer esprit of the northern wilderness in a fresh, engaging idiom."
 - The Architectural Review, May 1993