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2008 Governor General’s Medals
in Architecture
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Gleneagles Community Centre |
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 The Gleneagles Community Centre is located on a small, gently sloping site in West Vancouver, British Columbia. The program is organized on three levels to limit the building footprint. The lower two levels can each be accessible, at grade, on opposite sides of the building. The intermediate level contains a community “living room”, café, meeting room, administration, and child care and generous front porch along the street. The lower level, with gymnasium, multipurpose room, arts room and outdoor specialty area, opens to covered outdoor terraces and courtyard spaces adjacent to a public golf course. The upper level accommodates fitness facilities.
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Jury Comment:
Sheltering under the encompassing gesture of a large over-hanging roof, the building deftly negotiates a subtle level change between a busy suburban street to the east and a protected lower court to the west. This sectional shift is further accentuated with a spatial juxtaposition of scale, with the large volume of the gymnasium, contrasting the more intimate stacked programme spaces of the lobby, public areas and exercise rooms, providing strong visible connection between all parts of the building. |
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John McMinn |
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