Heneghan Peng Architects wins the competition for Canadian Canoe Museum

Dublin-based Heneghan Peng Architects was chosen over four other shortlisted proposals, Heneghan Peng's winning design "embraces aboriginal wisdom to live and build lightly on the land," says statement by Museum, by "organically" integrating an elongated glass pavilion topped with a two-acre rooftop garden alongside the Trent-Severn waterway.

According to the jury, the Heneghan Peng/Kearns Mancini team, "An elegant, serpentine glass pavilion graced by a two-acre rooftop garden has been selected as the winning design in the two-stage international competition. The design to house the world’s largest collection of canoes and kayaks presents a Canadian game changer that organically and boldly curves out from the drumlins beside the Trent-Severn waterway. Envisioned with and for the community, the museum embraces aboriginal wisdom to live and build lightly on the land."

"The Irish-Canadian design team brings to the Canadian Canoe Museum its rich experience in the design of high-profile museums and visitor centers in Toronto and around the world. Heneghan peng’s competition-winning Grand Egyptian Museum is currently being constructed in Giza, Egypt at the foot of the Pyramids. Their stunning Giant’s Causeway Visitors’ Center in Northern Ireland folds its dramatic geometry into the hill above unique basalt stone cliffs at a World Heritage Site. Kearns Mancini Architects work includes dynamic university buildings in Canada as well as the award-winning Fort York Visitor Centre, with Patkau Architects, that inserts a powerful Cor-ten steel and glass volume below the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto."

It is planned to rise on the city's 1904 Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site by 2020 and house the world's largest collection of canoes and kayaks.

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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 mult-purpose room available for events and weddings
Restaurant café, Gift shop, Toddler play area, Trent Severn Canal Exhibition, Artisanal workshops, On canal programming - winter and summer
The building will be designed to LEEDS Gold designation.

This new Museum project supports economic growth with new construction as well as creating additional employment and business opportunities along the Trent-Severn Waterway.  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 cost to be in the range of $45 to $50 million depending on final design and start date of construction

Project Team.-

-   heneghan peng Architects – Design Architect    www.hparc.com

-   Kearns Mancini Architects – Architect of Record    www.kmai.com

-   ARUP – Building Services & Structural Engineers   www.arup.com

-   Foggy River Farm Design – Landscape Architect    www.restorativefarming.com

-   Bartenbach – Lighting Design    www.bartenbach.com

-   Kaizen – Food Service Planning & Design    www.kaizenfood.com

-   Reich + Petch – Exhibit Design   www.reich-petch.com

-   Haley Sharpe – Exhibit Design    www.haleysharpe.com

Construction works they are targeting a ground breaking for mid to late 2017 with opening 30 months later, 2020.