Six Finalists Selected for Canadian Canoe Museum
John Hill
22. May 2015
Canadian Canoe Museum (Photo: Courtesy of Canadian Architect)
The Ontario-based museum has shortlisted six architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
According to their website, the Canadian Canoe Museum is a private, not-for-profit organization "that explores the canoe’s enduring significance to the peoples of Canada." Currently housed in a nondescript building near big-box retailers, the move to the nearby, water-based site is meant to raise the exposure of the museum and the Lift Lock site, while giving the museum an architecturally noteworthy home.
Following an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) held in March that yielded 90 submissions, the museum has selected the following architects/teams for the next stage in the competition:
• Heneghan Peng Architects, Dublin
• Team of Bing Thom Architects, Vancouver, and Lett Architects, Peterborough
• Team of Provencher_Roy, Montreal, and NORR, Toronto
• Team of Patkau Architects, Vancouver, and Brook McIlroy, Toronto
• 5468796 Architecture, Winnipeg
Per Canadian Architect's article on the competition, "Stage 2 of the Competition will run through August 11, 2015. ... The Canadian Canoe Museum is expecting to make a final selection of the design in the fall of this year leading towards the Canada 150 celebration in 2017."
Canadian Canoe Museum entrance (Photo: Courtesy of Canadian Canoe Museum)
