Forum Lecture: Re-Assembling Institutions & Infrastructure
Monday, January 17th, 2022 at 6:00 pm to 6:00 pm
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Topic
Cultural institutions have long been anchors of communities. As we adapt to new modes of knowledge production and dissemination, both the mandates and physical forms of our cultural institutions require reconfiguring. New digital technologies alongside hands-on makerspaces and innovative leisure and recreational facilities are updating traditional civic centres, turning them into leading examples of how public institutions can facilitate democracy. How might important civic hubs take on an expanding list of programmatic uses to become even more celebrated spaces of public assembly? What roles do such institutions play in society?
About the Speakers
Chow joined gh3 in 2006 and was named partner in 2015. His contributions have been key to the Toronto-based firm’s growth as an integrated studio-based design practice of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. His work has varied in scale from infrastructure buildings and small renovations to large institutional buildings and multi-residential developments.
Chow has been the project architect for multiple award-winning projects that integrate landscape and architecture.
The Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool and Pavilion and the Real Time Control Building #3 each won a 2020 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture. Both are in Edmonton, AB.
Other examples include:
Sidewalk Labs Quayside Unit Prototyping, Toronto, ON
Castle Downs Park Pavilion, Edmonton, AB
Scholars’ Green Park, Mississauga, ON
Stormwater Facility, Toronto, ON
Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage, Edmonton, ON
June Callwood Park, Toronto, ON