Community sites and buildings include settings for gatherings, meetings, conferences, teaching, entertainment and recreation.
The scope of work illustrated by this section includes a church, an arts, aquatics and recreation centre, an interpretive centre, a day care centre, a mill site and an overnight camp site.
The projects vary in scope and complexity, including new construction, reconstruction, adaptive reuse and the alteration of existing buildings to accommodate new programs.
Community
Conservation
Dwelling
Workplace
Planning
Objects
Morningstar Mill Lookout
Client: City of St. Catharines
Budget: $150 000
Project Completion: 2012
This intervention is located in a scenic area of St. Catharines overlooking a waterfall.
The scheme for the lookout point needed to take into consideration both safety and continuity with the existing historical context.
The guard system keeps the nature of the traditional split post fence, while being made of current dimensioned lumber and durable fittings.
The new split fence post can also be fitted with glass where necessary, providing both transparency and safety.
Covenant Revitalization
Information on this project will be available soon.
Essex Recreation Centre
Trafalger Baptist
Shaw House
North Meadow Daycare
Our approach to Conservation is to simultaniously embrace the original period's method of building together with today's construction practices. This hybrid of learning from the past while incorporating contemporary developments in building science leads to conservation solutions that embody historical integrity as well as efficiency.
Buildings are increasingly conserved beyond the desire to retain their current state. In today's world of increasing environmental consiousness, extending an existing building's physical life often also means rehabilitating it to today's energy standars as well as spacial needs.
Preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and adaptive re-use are increasingly important and desired realms that we function within.
Lincoln County Courthouse
Extent of Work: Exterior Renewal
Cost: $3 000 000
Project Completion: 2004
Award: 2005 Best Preservation of an
Historic Building Award from the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants.
Originally St. Catharines Town Hall, the former Lincoln County Courthouse housed the citys mid-19th-century
government, municipal and judicial services. Today the city leases the building to several commercial and artsrelated tenants.
Restoration work included structural roof repairs, partial slate re-roofing, masonry re-pointing, roof stabilization and
clock tower repairs.
Port Dalhousie Lighthouse
Extent of Work: Exterior and Lantern repair and refinish.
Cost: $175 000
Project Completion: 2011
Duff Baby
Client: Ontario Heritage Foundation
Building Area: 4,500 sq.ft.
Cost: $650 000
Project Completion: 1995
The conservation for adaptive re-use of the Duff Baby House, one of Ontarios oldest structures, began in 1994. The Ontario Heritage Foundation used the building as a continuous residence until it was acquired by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation in 1987 for its regional office.
Limehouse
Knox Presbyterian Church
Location: Toronto
Building Area: 57,000 sq.ft.
Budget: $9,500,000.00
Project Completion: 2020
Knox Presbyterian Church is located on the western boundary of the University of Torontos main campus in Downtown Toronto. The site comprises three distinct building elements which includes the original church building (1905 1908), the Fellowship Hall (1961) and the late 19th century semidetached residence that acts as a gateway to the historic Harbord Village Community.
Our firm conducted a Building Review of the entire site in 1993 and outlined a twenty year plan for the repair and renewal of the entire site. By late 2010, the church had undertaken a significant portion of this program at a cost of $4,000,000.00. Conservation strategies were pursued to arrest damage and renew stone masonry, stained glass, slate roofs, copper flashings, etc, while at the same time undertaking site and building upgrades.
In the spring of 2011, an update to the original building review recommended a ten year programme to address the remaining areas of work within the building at a cost of $5,500,000.00.
Dwelling projects represent the designs for private shelter for a number of our clients. From the addition of a modest bay window in a modern countryside pavilion residence to the reorganization of a 1920s heritage property, residential projects address the diverse needs and preferences of each client. Dwelling projects span the range from private residence and condominiums, recreational retreats to seniors retirement living.
Boyce Residence
Whispering Pines Retirement Residence
Barrie Condominiums
YMCA Master Plan
This project is currently in progress.
Churchville Heritage Conservation District
Port Credit
Club Belvedere
Pine Crest Walkway
The Workplace is a crucial environment given that a person who works full time will typically spend around 2000 hours a year at work. We desire to engage our clients and end users in a participatory process of visioning and design, in order to form a responsive and responsible building. Our designs combine adapting existing buildings to new uses or completely new facilities.
Bosch Rexroth
CMAC National Office
SIM Video Equipment Rentals
Coming Soon!
An object can be a vivid and instantanious expression of idea(s). Our interests in adaptive re-use, materials, craft, and creative resorcefulness are explored and developed in this realm of design and making. These explorations inform our approach to architecture and vice versa.
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