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| Queen's School of Business |
| at Victoria School |
| Kingston, Ontario |
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| Client |
| Queen’s University |
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| Architect |
| The Ventin Group Architects |
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| Project Completion Date |
| September, 2002 |
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| Type of Contract |
| Lump Sum |
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| Project Description |
| The challenge of this project was to integrate a 21st-century business school with a 19th-century, Victorian, red-brick elementary school in the context of a stone campus. The solution successfully interweaves the old and the new through the use of a brick colonnade with the new stone-and-zinc facade of the addition. Budget concerns were alleviated by using excess cooling capacity from an adjacent building and by developing a highly efficient floorplate. The former elementary school was renovated to provide new teaching and administrative space while restoring significant interior hallways and rooms to their former grandeur. The new, three-storey addition more than doubles the gross floor area of the heritage building (from 42,561 to 111,989 square feet). The addition was designed to act as a link between the red brick of the old school and the ever-present limestone of the Queen’s campus. |
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| The project won an Award of Excellence from the Ontario Association of Architects and an Award of Commendation from the Frontenac Historical Foundation in 2003. |
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