Text description provided by the architects. The City of Edmonton has a rich history of public pavilions located within the river valley and its extensive park space. The most notable, the Hawrelak Park pavilions designed in the late 1960s by Bittorf Wensley Architects, reflect the landscape through their organically-shaped concrete columns, glued-laminated wood beams, and wood-shingled roofs. The new Queen E Pool will continue this tradition. The new facility is tied to the landscape of Edmonton’s river valley. The building’s careful siting, pavilion-like form, simple construction, and materiality recall the rustic spirit of the original pool and tie the new building into the landscape of the North Saskatchewan River valley park system.
