WAG | Inuit Art Centre Expansion
Winnipeg Art Gallery - Inuit Art Centre Expansion
Proposed structure will be constructed adjacent to the existing Winnipeg Art Gallery building. Strongly influenced by the landscape of Canada’s Arctic, the four-level, 40,000-square-foot facility will include: - Visible vault–This open-storage system in the grand entrance is the first of its kind in North America - Inuit gallery - Indigenous gallery - Artist-in-residence and curator-in-residence spaces - Studio and learning spaces–Five studios will serve as year-round programming venues Architects - Michael Maltzan Architecture Inc., Los Angeles (Principal Architect) - Cibinel Architects Ltd., Winnipeg (Associate Architect) http://www.mmaltzan.com/wp-content/u...t_centre_1.jpg Image Source Sources | Additional Information: http://www.cibinel.com/project/wag-i...tre-expansion/ http://wag.ca/about/inuit-art-centre http://www.mmaltzan.com/projects/win...it-art-centre/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...ticle22383642/ http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opi...249233971.html |
Please update with any other images or new information available, when /if they become available. There are many conceptual renders I may have added but this structure is still in the design phase as far as I can ascertain. Thanks.
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Thanks for starting the thread, cyro.
On looking at the rendering a bit more, I wonder if the two buildings are situated too closely together? The da Roza original is a bit of architectural sculpture, meant to sit on its own to some extent... the Maltzan addition is pushed in so tightly that to the casual observer it might look like an incongruent whole as opposed to two distinctly different structures. Hopefully this won't be a problem. At any rate, it will be exciting to see this expansion take shape. |
I believe they are in a bit of a holding pattern while they secure more funding.
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What's wrong with the budget?
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well, even if you don't like this art gallery expansion plan, I see it as part of a larger tourism play for Winnipeg to get some kind of critical mass.
-new airport -jets return -Canadian museum for human rights -almost all brands available for shopping -expanded zoo/Assiniboine park -convention centre -thermea spa we don't have the mountains, Niagara falls or the best climate, but things are starting to come together to get people to take notice of this town that we didn't have five years ago. art gallery will just compliment all this momentum. |
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Then again, It's his first term, he deserves a break. It's nothing more than a campaign pledge he used to get elected? :shrug: |
Well in Bowman's defense, he did exactly what he said he was going to. Raised property taxes by 2.3% maximum this year. Frontage levy is a levy not a tax ;) user fees, garbage tax, whatever is not property tax. Of course they are mostly taxes in reality.
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Bowman personally feels it should not be in the calculation. Anyway, we''ll probably both see it differently.. How bout that WAG expansion project? |
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I know I missing out. I've walked by a number of times, just haven't made it inside.
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This little corner of Winnipeg is getting really bumping in the last few years. New U of W Buhler building, new U of W residence, new art gallery expansion. All in a relatively small area
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It seems like this new gallery has been talked about for a long time. With Bowman being a former board member of the WAG I would imagine the current board has decent access to him and that he is well aware of their plans.
The WAG Studio class schedule could be an early indication of when the construction might happen as my understanding is they currently run classes out of the current buildings where the new gallery will be built. |
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Traditionally these people carved small piecies of bone or tusk that could be carried with them ... When the federal government created static communities for the Innuit they were not as nomadic. The government decided to fly in soapstone in the early 60's and encourage people to carve... In Cape Dorset they brought in artists to teach print making. These were the beginnings of print making and soapstone carving we see today. While it may be considered a newer art form so is video art performance art or photography for that matter. They can be seen in the greatest art galleries of the world. As our society changes so does the art forms. As we and the national gallery have the greatert Inuit collections in the world it's only naturally we should proudly try and display them... |
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