This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The first scheme is from New York architect DS+R, joined by landscape architects Hargreaves Jones and Halifax’s Architecture49. Their scheme lifts up the galleries in a very forthright manner.
Each proposal is rich with ideas, and dramatically different from the other two. This is how a competition is supposed to work: By getting different thinkers – in this case architects, landscape architects, Mi’kmaq artists, and more – to push the bounds of what’s practical and what’s possible.The new gallery will fill an empty block on Lower Water Street, extending the waterfront boardwalk with a mix of art and community space and anchoring a new Arts District.
Most of this shape, curved like a beach stone, would be wrapped in galvanized aluminum – a material familiar from barn roofs, said Acre’s Monica Adair. Maybe so, but how do you use it to wrap complex forms that are curving on two axes at a time? This is a serious technical challenge; it’s unclear how it would survive the design and construction process.
I hope it is not funded by the taxpayers. If so, waste of money
I like the second one by Acre
Omar Ghandi all the way. The others just don’t feel appropriate for Halifax. Ghandi studied there and obviously gets it. His buildings are all over NS and it’s fitting that a building like this one has his name on it.
The third one is most inspiring. And Omar Gandhi is a Halifax Graduate.
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