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Jan 22, 2016
Irish and Canadian architects to design canoe museum
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — A team of architects from Ireland and Canada has been selected to build the new Canadian Canoe Museum at the Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site, the museum announced Thursday.
Heneghan Peng Architects of Dublin and Kearns Mancini Architects of Toronto won an international competition to create the $45-million attraction.
The winning design was described as an elegant, serpentine glass pavilion with a two-acre (0.8-hectare) rooftop garden and 6,500 square metres of exhibition space.
The museum, which houses the world's largest collection of canoes and kayaks, plans to relocate from its existing Peterborough facilities.
Heneghan Peng is currently building the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt. Kearns Mancini is known for designing Canadian university buildings as well as the Fort York Visitor Centre in Toronto.
The canoe museum said it will immediately start work on a planning application to the city of Peterborough and Parks Canada to approve the new pavilion, and on laying the groundwork for a fundraising campaign.
It said it aims to start construction in late 2017 and to open the attraction 30 months later.
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Jan 21, 2016
Firms from Ireland and Toronto to design for new Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough
PETERBOROUGH — Two architecture firms have been awarded the contract to design the new Canadian Canoe Museum at the Peterborough Lift Lock site.
On Thursday (Jan. 21), canoe museum officials announced that heneghan peng Architects, from Dublin, Ireland and Kearns Mancini Architects, from Toronto, have won the international competition for the new $45-million project.
The winning design features a serpentine glass pavilion with a two-acre rooftop garden. The building will house the world’s largest collection of canoes and kayaks.
"The design looks forward to the importance of sustainability, respect and responsibility as we move forward as a Nation to the Sesquicentennial in 2017, and beyond," says Richard Tucker, executive director of the Canadian Canoe Museum, in a prepared release. "The design speaks to the importance of the contents, programming and messages conveyed by the Canadian Canoe Museum and its craft to all Canadians."
The Irish-Canadian design team brings a wealth of experience in designing high-profile museums and visitor centres in Toronto and around the world.
For example, Heneghan peng's competition-winning Grand Egyptian Museum is currently being constructed in Giza, Egypt at the foot of the Pyramids. Kearns Mancini Architects work includes university buildings in Canada as well as the Fort York Visitor Centre that features a Cor-ten steel and glass volume below the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
According to museum officials, the design submission stood apart from other submissions due to the way the design works with the land, rather than overwhelming it. Geothermal heating/cooling will also reduce energy costs.
Inside, the building will have approximately 80,000 square-feet of single-floor space. It offers a flexible floor plate, allowing the museum to change the space when needed.
The process to find an architect began in the spring of 2015. The museum received more than 97 submission from firms from all over the world. The field was whittled down to five firms who were asked to submit detailed designs based on requirements of the museum, Parks Canada and the City of Peterborough.
The plans were presented to the public in September. The Architect Selection Committee then chose the winning design.
In accordance with an agreement signed in 2015 between Parks Canada and the Canadian Canoe Museum, the design team will immediately move ahead with preparing a planning submission to the City of Peterborough and Parks Canada as the first step towards the construction of the new Canadian Canoe Museum.
The Canadian Canoe Museum will continue to ramp up the capital investment campaign that will be necessary to fund construction of the new museum building on the contributions from the City of Peterborough and museum founders.
Facts about the new Canadian Canoe Museum
• The building is approximately 80,000 square feet of internal area
The design includes:
◦ 17,000 sq ft of exhibition
◦ 20,000 sq ft of high bay storage that will be accessible to the public
◦ 250-seat multi-purpose room available for events and weddings
◦ Eastern door for aboriginal sunrise ceremonies
◦ Restaurant, café; local food
◦ Gift shop
◦ Toddler play area
◦ Trent-Severn Canal Exhibition, Parks Canada
◦ Artisanal workshops;
◦ On-canal programming, canoe skills for all ages, winter and summer
◦ Citizenship ceremonies in canoes, next to the museum
◦ Connections to Trent-Severn bike-path, in front of the museum
◦ Outdoor terrace and public space for yoga, food festivals
• The building will be designed to LEED Gold designation, and aspires to LEED Platinum
• As a legacy project for Canada's Sesquicentennial and subject to securing funding from all levels of government and private donors, we are targeting a ground breaking for late 2017, to open 30 months later.
• The new Canadian Canoe Museum project supports economic growth through its design, consulting, and construction as well as by creating additional employment and business opportunities along the Trent-Severn Waterway. As a template of 21st-century sustainability, the Canadian Canoe Museum may facilitate the expansion of Peterborough and the region as a centre of clean technology. The Canadian Canoe Museum currently provides an economic contribution to the local region in excess of $10 million annually and supports over 83 direct, indirect and induced jobs. The project has the potential to create as many as 600 direct, indirect and induced construction jobs and up to 23 additional permanent direct, indirect and induced jobs at the new Museum with its expanded programs and facilities.
• Altus Group cost consultants have estimated the construction, design, furniture all-inclusive cost to be in the range of $45 to $50 million depending on final design and start date of construction
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