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Architects: Modern Office of Design + Architecture
- Area: 3800 ft²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Robert Lemermeyer
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Brock White Canada ULC, Metal Works Canada, Robert McNeel & Associates, Trimble
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Lead Architect: David Vera
Text description provided by the architects. In a city known more for gentrification and newness, the community of Inglewood – Calgary’s oldest neighborhood established in 1875 – exists as an anomaly in the urban fabric. Caught in a time capsule, the community is comprised predominately of industrial typologies that have long sat dormant, obsolescing to the modernization of production, fabrication and manufacturing. However, in recent years Inglewood has witnessed rapid transformation as young start-up companies, breweries, galleries and restaurants are moving in and creatively reanimating the outdated building stock. This renewed sense of optimism prompted our client to purchase a forgotten, leftover piece of land straddled between a CP rail line to the south, an army surplus store to the east and an access road and parking lot to the north and west.
