Goldring Student Centre
CLIENT
Victoria University (in the University of Toronto)
LOCATION
Ontario
DELIVERY MODEL
Design-Bid-Build
PRIME CONSULTANT
Moriyama & Teshima Architects
SECTOR
Buildings
PROJECT VALUE
$18.7 million
COMPLETION DATE
April 2013
Project Overview
The Goldring Student Centre created a much-needed hub for student activity, providing new spaces for clubs, meeting rooms, offices for student government, a renovated cafe, and a two-storey lounge. Construction included two major scopes of work - a 2,000 m2 historic renovation of the old Wymilwood Hall building, which required asbestos and PCB abatement, and a 2,500 m2 three-storey addition onto the existing building forming the new student centre.
The building exterior included hard and soft landscaping of the entire project site with a central park-like setting. The new student centre enhances the existing space by taking the history of the old hall and incorporating it into the modern new facilities. The building is a structural steel frame with steel decking and a facade of glass, stone, metal, and precast architectural panels. A large open glass-clad staircase runs up the middle of the new addition around the elevator in the two-storey open lounge area.
Winner of the 2014 Heritage Toronto Award and the 2013 Pug Award.
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