CULTURAL PROJECT EXPERIENCE
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. Glenn Gould
KPMB Architects, is one of North America’s leading architectural studios. It was founded in 1987 as a hybrid studio model, offering an alternative model to the sole practitioner or the large corporate firm. It is based on diversity, integrative design thinking, and intensive collaboration between architects, clients, engineers and experts. Regardless of scale, every project is conceived as a response to a client’s vision and the project context. Ultimately, the architecture of KPMB focuses on enriching the experiences of contemporary life, designing for the long term and city building, and creating spaces that catalyse interaction and community.
CULTURAL PROJECT EXPERIENCE
The diversity of projects and KPMB’s commitment to architectural excellence has attracted exceptional clients and projects across Canada, the United States and Europe. This includes work with many of North America’s leading institutions, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada’s National Ballet School, Goodman Theatre, Yale University, the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto. Currently, KPMB is designing projects for Princeton University, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Boston University, Lethbridge University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of British Columbia.
Canada’s National Ballet
The studio is an advocate of sustainability and has delivered some of North America’s most energy efficient projects. KPMB has completed two LEED Platinum certified buildings: the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (2013) and Manitoba Hydro Place (2009) which has achieved 70%+ energy savings and is the largest office building in Canada to be LEED Platinum certified. Current LEED Gold targeted projects, include George Brown College Health Sciences Campus on the Toronto Waterfront, the Southcore Financial Centre in Toronto and Vaughan City Hall. KPMB’s projects have been recognized with over 200 awards for architectural excellence, including 14 Governor General’s Medals, 5 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture Awards and three of the founding partners are recipients of the Order of Canada.
We have worked for over 20 cultural institutions, many of which have led to repeat commissions including: Art Gallery of Hamilton Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Saskatchewan Banff Centre Berkshire Theatre Canada’s National Ballet School Canadian Museum of Nature Chinese Cultural Centre Design Exchange Gardiner Museum Goodman Theatre Harbourfront Centre / The Power Plant Gallery Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre National Ballet of Canada Minnesota Orchestral Association Royal Conservatory of Music Soulpepper Theatre Company Stratford Festival of Canada Corporation of Massey Hall & Roy Thomson Hall Toronto International Film Festival Group University of Michigan Yale University
PROGRAM: 46,276 SF (renovation & new construction) renovation and expansion of 1983-84 museum designed by Keith Wagland LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS:
Completed 2006
CLIENT:
Gardiner Museum
COST:
$10 million
AWARDS: RIBA International Award; Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award; OAA Award of Excellence; Business Week/Architectural Record Award
GARDINER MUSEUM
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It’s the big projects that get the attention, but often it’s the small ones that deserve it. None more so than the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, easily the most compelling, even exhilarating, example of architectural excellence to have appeared in Toronto in some time.
– Christopher Hume, The Toronto Star
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The TELUS Centre is compelling for its tectonic rigour and careful respect for existing site elements…it expresses a mannered clarity that stands up to its more architecturally aggressive neighbour [Libeskind’s ROM].
– Robert Ouellette, Canadian Architect
ROYAL CONSERVATORY TELUS CENTRE FOR PERFORMANCE AND LEARNING
ROYAL CONSERVATORY TELUS CENTRE FOR PERFORMANCE & LEARNING PROGRAM: 190,000 SF (140,000 new, 50,000 renovation). The new addition includes 3 performance venues, 1140, 230, 150 seats for music performance, light opera and dance, with academic facilities for conservatory training, community programs and back-of-house spaces LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS:
Completed 2009
CLIENT:
The Royal Conservatory
COST:
$110 million
AWARDS: Civic Trust Award; AIA Educational Facility Design Award; United States Institute for Theatre Technology Architecture Honor Award; OAA Award of Excellence; Governor General’s Award; Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award; Canadian Interiors Best of Canada; Heritage Toronto Award; RAIC National Urban Design Award; Canadian Architect Award of Excellence
PROGRAM: 6,000 SF restoration of the existing 1901 Memorial Hall as a 240-seat recital hall; renovation of the lower level to provide new rehearsal, teaching and studio space for the children’s music programs of the Conservatory LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS: 1997 CLIENT:
The Royal Conservatory
COST:
$2.2 million
ROYAL CONSERVATORY, ETTORE MAZZOLENI HALL
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KPMB’s renovation/restoration… strikes just the right balance of past and present, symbolism and functionality. - The Toronto Star
PROGRAM: 175,000 SF; 42-storey mixed-use development including 5-storey base comprising flexible, multi-use space, including three cinemas and two flexible screening spaces; 38 floor residential condominium tower LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS:
Completed 2010
CLIENT: Toronto International Film Festival and King + John Festival Corporation (c/o The Daniels Corporation) TEAM: KPMB Architects (Design Architect); Kirkor Architects & Planners (Architect of Record) AWARDS: OAA Award of Excellence; Ontario Concrete Award; Toronto Urban Design Award; Winning Scheme, Invited Design Competition
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
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Soundwise, the venue is quite simply one of the best on the planet… It’s the closest you’ll come to seeing a film from within a recording studio, and you can tell by the hush that sets in acoustically as you walk down the hall to get your seat that you’re in for something special.
– Jason Gorber, The 10 Best Seats at Toronto Movie Theatres, The Toronto Star, January 12, 2013
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
CANADA’S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL: PROJECT GRAND JETÉ
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KPMB tactfully orchestrates an interplay between heritage and new interventions so that the evolving layers of history are clearly legible, but new parts also have an expressive dynamism.
– Catherine Slessor, The Architectural Review
CANADA’S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL: PROJECT GRAND JETÉ PROGRAM: 180,000 SF (new and existing) including 12 dance studios and support space, academic classrooms, and common spaces including a Town Square with café, library/resource centre and study areas LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS:
Completed 2005
CLIENT:
Canada’s National Ballet School
COST:
$75 million
TEAM: KPMB Architects/Goldsmith Borgal & Company Limited Architects, architects in joint venture AWARDS: AIA Educational Facility Design Award; Chicago Athenaeum Award; Governor General’s Award; ULI Award for Excellence; RAIC National Urban Design Award; ULI Global Award for Excellence; AIA Honor Award for Architecture; Toronto Urban Design Award; Canadian Interiors Best of Canada; OAA Award of Excellence
PROGRAM: 250,000 SF total area: 220,000 SF existing; 30,000 SF new construction LOCATION: Ottawa, Ontario STATUS:
Completed 2010
COST:
$162.0
million
TEAM: Padolsky, Kuwabara, Gagnon Joint Venture Architects (PKG): Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. Architects, KPMB Architects, and Gagnon Letellier Cyr Ricard Mathieu Architectes AWARDS: OAA Award of Excellence, Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, Ottawa Urban Design Award, Award of Excellence
CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE
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From our first meetings with KPMB, the architects grasped the complexities of the renovation and also saw its many exceptional possibilities, it has been fascinating to watch them create a renovated venue that preserves the signature elements of the current Orchestra Hall and yet creates something absolutely new. – Michael Hensen, President and CEO, Minnesota Orchestra Hall
ORCHESTRA HALL RENEWAL, MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA
ORCHESTRA HALL RENEWAL, MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: 21,528 SF expansion of lobby and public spaces and 9,688 SF renovation of administrative offices and concert hall LOCATION: Minneapolis, Minnesota STATUS:
Completed 2013
CLIENT:
Minnesota Orchestral Association
COST:
$38.6 million
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Toronto’s Distillery District showcases brilliant design while providing a much needed theatre venue…The Young Centre is the vital spark that every city desires… – Lisa Rochon, The Globe and Mail, January 12, 2006
YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM: 44,000 SF adaptive reuse of distillery tank houses including a 400-seat flexible theater, a 200-seat flexible format dance theater, a 100-seat studio theater, a cabaret stage, rehearsal/teaching studios, performance support spaces, workshop facilities, classrooms, lobby and ticketing facilities LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS:
Completed 2006
CLIENT: George Brown College, Soulpepper Theatre Company AWARDS: USITT Architecture Honor Award; OAA Award; Business Week/Architectural Record Award; Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Award
PROGRAM: Engineering/Computer Science: 478,000 SF faculty and graduate offices, classrooms, retail, heavy engineering labs (including “vibration pit”), wet labs, white labs, computer labs, workshops, and fitness centre. Visual Arts: 247,500 SF faculty and graduate offices, design art studios, photography dark rooms, electronic and experimental arts studios, black box theatre, galleries, art store, and teaching amphitheatres. LOCATION: Montreal, Quebec STATUS:
Completed 2005
CLIENT:
Concordia University
TEAM: KPMB Architects / Fichten Soiferman et Associés Architectes, architects in joint venture AWARDS: 2006 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, National Urban Design Award
LE QUARTIER CONCORDIA, ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND VISUAL ARTS (ENCS/VA) INTEGRATED COMPLEX
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he Visual Arts Building features a 550-square-meter multi-storey mural by T Nicholas Baier and Cabinet Braun-Braën; the pixilated floral composition is a series of translucent and opaque images on glass and mirror panels. An experiment where art and technology, image and form meet to create a new hybridized whole, the work is an appropriate achitectonic billboard for the new Concordia. – Michael Carroll, Azure Magazine, March/April 2005
LE QUARTIER CONCORDIA, ENCS/VA INTEGRATED COMPLEX
PROGRAM: 97,500 SF comprising 250-seat Arthur Miller Theater and academic facility containing several smaller student repertory performance / teaching spaces, 460-seat auditorium and back-of-house spaces LOCATION: Ann Arbor, Michigan STATUS:
Completed 2007
CLIENT: University of Michigan School of Music, Department of Theatre and Drama COST:
$28.4 million
AWARDS: United States Institute for Theater Technology Architecture Award of Merit
CHARLES R. WALGREEN, JR. DRAMA CENTER & ARTHUR MILLER THEATRE
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Opening the doors of the theatre is both a symbol and invitation for students, the university community and the public to join a discourse about values, morality and the promise of how the arts can broaden our horizons – University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman
CHARLES R. WALGREEN, JR. DRAMA CENTER & ARTHUR MILLER THEATRE
PROGRAM: 13,200 SF (1,065 SF renovation) LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS:
Completed 2011
CLIENT: Harbourfront Centre / The Power Plant Gallery
THE POWER PLANT GALLERY
PROGRAM: 171,000 SF new 800-seat theatre building, renovation of two existing theatre buildings to accommodate administrative/backstage/ rehearsal facilities and 400-seat repertory theatre LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois STATUS:
Completed 2000
CLIENT:
The Goodman Theater
COST:
$35.5 million
TEAM: KPMB Architects, DLK Architecture Inc., McClier Corporation, associated architects
GOODMAN THEATER
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…a building that seamlessly honors tradition and heralds innovation … a theater with a soul. – The Chicago Tribune
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The restoration of Sprague Hall is an architectural and acoustical triumph. It signals an abiding commitment to music at Yale and to the creation and recreation of music in a new century. I am deeply grateful to the many people who made this possible. – Music Dean, Robert Blocker, Yale University
PROGRAM: 34,000 SF Renovation and additions to the 1917 Coolidge & Shattuck building, including rejuvenation of the existing 720-seat recital hall, new MEP systems, and new administrative and practice facilities LOCATION: New Haven, Connecticut STATUS:
Completed 2003
CLIENT:
Yale University, School of Music
COST:
$15 million
SPRAGUE MEMORIAL HALL, YALE UNIVERSITY
PROGRAM: Transformation of the stage and auditorium chamber (60,000 SF) to create a room with great natural acoustics LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario STATUS: 2002 CLIENT: The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall COST:
$15 million
AWARDS: Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Award; IESNA International Illumination Design Award; Lighting Design Award of Merit; GE Edison Award for Exceptional Lighting
ROY THOMSON HALL ENHANCEMENT PROJECT
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Acoustica fantastica! - Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
PROGRAM:
124,000 SF purpose-built art gallery
LOCATION: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan STATUS:
Completion 2015
CLIENT:
City of Saskatoon
COST:
$84 million
TEAM: KPMB Architects (Design Architect); Smith Carter Architects & Engineers (Architect of Record) AWARDS:
Canadian Architect Award of Excellence
REMAI MODERN ART GALLERY OF SASKATCHEWAN
SELECTED CLIENT LIST Academic
Corporate
Boston University
Air Canada Corporate Real Estate
Centre for International Governance Innovation
Alliance Communications Corporation
Concordia University
Ammirati Puris Lintas
George Brown College
CTV Globe Media
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Great West Life Realty Advisors
McGill University
Hasbro Inc
McMaster University
Indigo Books and Music Inc
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manitoba Hydro
Northwestern University
Onex Corporation
Ontario College of Art and Design
The Woodbridge Company Limited
Princeton University
Torys LLP
Queen’s University
Walt Disney Animation Canada
Royal Conservatory of Music Ryerson University
Public
Smith College
Archdiocese of Toronto
St. Andrew’s College
City of Kitchener
Trinity College
City of Vaughan
University of Lethbridge
City of Richmond
University of Michigan
City of Toronto
University of Pennsylvania
Correctional Services Canada
University of Toronto
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
University of Waterloo
Department of National Defence Government of Canada
Yale University
Infrastructure Ontario Public Works and Government Services Canada
Cultural Art Gallery of Hamilton Art Gallery of Saskatchewan The Banff Centre Berkshire Theatre Canada’s National Ballet Canada’s National Ballet School Canadian Museum of Nature Gardiner Museum Goodman Theatre National Ballet of Canada Minnesota Orchestral Association Soulpepper Theatre Company Stratford Festival of Canada Corporation of Massey Hall & Roy Thomson Hall Toronto International Film Festival Group
Healthcare Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Bridgepoint Health Providence Healthcare Hospitality/Retail Prevedello, Bigourdan, Lee (Nota Bene) Hospitality 3, (Study at Yale Hotel) Hilton Hotel Marc Laurent Oliver Bonacini Oxford Properties Star Alliance, Zürich Vincor International
SELECTED AWARDS American Institute of Architects Awards 2014 CIGI Campus 2010 Ryerson University Master Plan 2007 Canada’s National Ballet School 2005 James Stewart Centre for Mathematics, McMaster University 1997 Grand Valley Institution for Women 1993 Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Award
2014 Rotman School of Management
2011 Manitoba Hydro Place (Innovation in Architecture)
2014 Quantum-Nano Centre 2012 Vaughan City Hall 2011 Canadian Museum of Nature 2010 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning 2008 Gardiner Museum
1993 Art Gallery of Ontario Stage III Expansion
2006 Centennial HP Information & Technology Centre
American Institute of Architects /Committee on Architecture for Education, Educational Facilities Design Awards
CTBUH Tall Building Award – Americas
2013 George Brown Waterfront Campus 2011 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning 2009 Canada’s National Ballet School 2005 Centennial HP Information & Technology Centre
2009 Manitoba Hydro Place Civic Trust Award 2012 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning
2005 James Stewart Centre for Mathematics
Interior Design Magazine
AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award
2002 Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
2006 Gardiner Museum
2010 Manitoba Hydro Place
2001 Hilton Toronto Hotel
Architectural Record, Interiors Award
MIPIM/Architectural Review Future Projects Awards
2004 James Stewart Centre for Mathematics, McMaster University 1995 Design Exchange Good Design is Good Business Award /Architectural Record Awards 2015 George Brown Waterfront Campus 2014 Rotman School of Management 2013 CIGI Campus 2007 Young Centre for the Performing Arts 2003 Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate Winery Canadian Architect Award of Excellence 2012 Pan/Parapan Am Athletes’ Village 2011 Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan 2008 Bridgepoint Active Health 2006 Manitoba Hydro Place 2005 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning 2004 Vaughan Civic Centre 1999 Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate Winery 1994 Metronome Canada 1991 Royal Conservatory of Music: Master Plan 1990 Kitchener City Hall 1988 Art Gallery of Ontario Stage III Expansion
2006 Manitoba Hydro Place National Post Design Exchange Gold Award 2003 Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery 2000 Cardinal Ambrozic Houses of Providence 2000 Hilton Toronto Hotel 1998 Ammirati Puris Lintas Ontario Association of Architects, Award of Excellence 2015 Fort York Branch Library 2014 Manitoba Hydro Place 2014 Bridgepoint Active Health 2013 Rotman School of Management 2013 CIGI Campus 2012 TIFF Bell Lightbox 2012 Vaughan City Hall
2008 Canada’s National Ballet School 2004 James Stewart Centre for Mathematics, McMaster University 2002 Richmond City Hall 1997 Stauffer Library, Queen’s University 1997 Design Exchange 1997 Grand Valley Institution for Women 1994 Kitchener City Hall 1994 Reisman-Jenkinson Residence 1992 King James Place 1992 Woodsworth College, University of Toronto Royal Institute of British Architects International Architecture Award 2012 CIGI Campus 2008 Gardiner Museum Toronto Historical Board Award 1995 Design Exchange 1994 King James Place 1993 Woodsworth College, University of Toronto Toronto Urban Design Awards 2011 TIFF Bell Lightbox
1995 Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
2007 Gardiner Museum
1993 King James Place
2007 Young Centre for the Performing Arts 2006 Canada’s National Ballet School
1997 Metronome Canada 1997 Kitchener City Hall
2010 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning
1993 Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
1998 Ammirati Puris Lintas
2010 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning
2000 Cardinal Ambrozic Houses of Providence
2012 CIGI Campus
2001 Hilton Toronto Hotel
2012 Vaughan City Hall
2007 180 Queen Street West
2003 Ravine House
2001 Penthouse on the Waterfront
2014 Rotman School of Management
2005 Railway Lands West Master Plan
2012 Vaughan City Hall
2002 Star Alliance Gold Lounge
2014 CIGI Campus
2009 Torys LLP Office
2013 Rotman School of Management
2002 Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
RAIC Governor General’s Award
2005 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
2003 Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
2003 Roy Thomson Hall Enhancement
2006 Le Quartier Concordia, Engineering /Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex, Concordia University
2010 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning
2014 Torys LLP, Calgary
2004 Lexus Lounge, Roy Thomson Hall
2008 Canada’s National Ballet School
2007 Canada’s National Ballet School
Canadian Interiors Best of Canada
2006 Canada’s National Ballet School
2010 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning
2011 Canadian Museum of Nature
2004 James Stewart Centre for Mathematics, McMaster University
2006 Young Centre for the Performing Arts
2010 Manitoba Hydro Place (National Urban Design Award)
1991 Marc Laurent Ontario Association of Architects Business Awards, Good Design is Good Business Award 2003 Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery
United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Awards 2010 Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning 2009 Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center & Arthur Miller Theatre 2007 Young Centre for the Performing Arts 2004 Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University Urban Land Institute Award 2012 Manitoba Hydro Place 2008 Canada’s National Ballet School
KPMB Architects 322 King Street West, 3rd Floor Toronto, Ontario M5V 1J2 T. 416 977 5104 www.kpmb.com Cover image: construction of Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music