Saskatoon | Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan | Completed
Ceremonial sod turned for art gallery
BY SEAN TREMBATH, THE STARPHOENIX JUNE 8, 2013 More than four years after the initial announcement of the idea for a new art gallery at River Landing, officials gathered Friday to celebrate the beginning of its construction. "It's very gratifying to see construction underway. We waited a long time for this moment," said Jason Aebig, president and chair of the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan's board of trustees, shortly after plunging a shovel into a box of coloured earth as part of a sod turning ceremony on Friday. Aebig dug alongside civic, provincial and federal government officials, board members, and Ellen Remai, whose family donated $15 million along with a $20 million collection of Picasso prints to the project, which now bears the family name. [........] Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/travel...#ixzz2VehrbOiP |
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http://www.riverlanding.ca/project_u...2013-05-21.jpg To this: http://www.riverlanding.ca/project_u...lrg/river1.jpg Project updates available at: http://www.riverlanding.ca/project_u...wan/index.html |
Awesome news! Thanks for the construction pic. Hopefully this spurs some renewed interest in getting River Landing going.
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A lot riding on Remai gallery
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When will it be complete?
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Oh really? That's a long construction time for such a relatively small building. What I read after posting that question was their goal for completion was late 2014/early 2015.
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Perhaps they're playing it safe since we all know how these construction timelines always seem to go. |
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Alright.
Is there gonna be a parkade built under the art gallery? I was looking at the page for River Landing, and it seems a parkade for the entire park is/or was? a part of this development. |
The original design called for a 2 level underground parkade. After the project came in over budget there was talk of scaling back the parkade to a single level but I'm not sure what finally transpired. The excavation adjacent to the theatre in the photo above looks pretty shallow for 2 levels, but hopefully someone knows for sure and will confirm.
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The River Landing website states that the parkade will have 155 stalls.
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The gallery will also get used, perhaps with the same number of attendees as Mendal or more given it will have a larger profile. Worse case, it does not get much use as a gallery the groups running it will simply rent out more and more space for meetings, conferences and special events until they bring in enough cash to cover costs. Either way it is a positive addition to the city. |
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Calgary spent $25 million on a pedestrian bridge. Many saw and still do see it as a white elephant, but anyone who has been on and experienced how cool it is knows that it is a great addition to the city, and that fact that it has won architectural awards across the world displays Calgary's growth into a major metropolis. Same can be said for Winnipeg's CMHR. It is exhorbitantly expensive and many have and still do see it as a white elephant. But when people see it in photos, and when people come into the downtown and see that magnificent structure, people are going to say "Wow, holy shit that is nice. This city is pretty sweet!" ... just like people driving over the Idylwyle Bridge, people will see this and think "Wow that's nice. Never thought I'd see this in a Prairie town. Wonder what it is?" It will create interest for people in that whole area of downtown. |
I find the architectural design of the Art Gallery of Saskatchewan some what uninspiring, bland and uninteresting. I like the play on clear glass and solid dark outside wall blocks on each level but otherwise not very exciting. The new Holiday Inn on Pacific ave has gotten a lot of criticism for being grey and institutional, looking like a penitentiary.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3780/9...2f465b87da.jpg Holiday Inn Saskatoon Downtown I'm seeing AGS looking closer to that than something 'wow,interesting lets check this out', but as long as people see it as a winner then it will succeed as something in the end. Some recently built buildings on the Prairies that I think are more art gallery worthy designs are new CHRM and Art Gallery of Alberta, I do understand that Saskatoon's gallery is being built under a budget though.. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3802/9...4e4a18dfe7.jpg Canadian_Museum_for_Human_Rights_under_Construction_03 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7400/9...e5e717f908.jpg main_aga |
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