MACKIMMIE COMPLEX REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT:
Double-skin façade, LEED Platinum sets it apart
T
he MacKimmie Complex and Professional Faculties Building Redevelopment Project straddles the line between new construction and renovation, which involves
By Cindy Chan According to John Souleles, partner at Dialog and project architect, the project is an adaptive reuse and new academic building in the heart of the University of Calgary campus. The existing library tower, built in 1968, has been
the redevelopment of the MacKimmie
repurposed into a new office tower, and
Library consisting of two building
the new block and link, a four-storey
components, a tower and an attached
low-lying building, will house classrooms
block building.
and student services. The Hunter
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Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking, an interdisciplinary nucleus for activities that will support entrepreneurial student experiences, is located on the fourth floor of the block and link building. Souleles says the tower was initially 13 storeys but was extended to 15 storeys. “We removed the existing precast concrete façade, interiors services, bringing it to a bare structure,” Beau
