This building was commissioned as the indoor pool for the
Ontario Winter Games.
The overall complex contains a
competition pool, children’s pool and recreation area, a new
ice arena, restaurant, field house, meeting rooms, several
concessions, classrooms, etc. The building shares many common architectural and material
features with the other buildings on the site to reinforce the
wholeness of the recreational complex.
Each building
possesses a glazed two storey entrance and rectangular
sports floor or activity area, all of differing scales and
materials. As this is a public facility in a highly corrosive
atmosphere, we incorporated very robust materials and
systems to withstand abuse and environmental concerns.
Mr. Ellis’s interiors won a national design award for the
building and its materials.
