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Architects: Pfeiffer
- Area: 95000 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, HAVER & BOECKER, Kalzip, Louis Poulsen, Mosa, Alucobond, 3form, 9Wood, BASWA acoustic, BAWSAphon, Benjamin Moore, Ceasar Stone, CertainTeed Ceilings, Crossville, Daltile, Difiniti Quartz, Dur-A-Flex, Emser Tile, Euro Stone, Ferguson, +19
Text description provided by the architects. Mount Royal University’s Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts is a welcoming and dynamic environment for both music performance and education. In use by the Mount Royal Conservatory, established in Calgary in 1910, the facility was designed to provide music education for the entire university and community at large, including students from age 3 to adulthood, and also to express connection to place and the direct correlation between the learning and performance of music. The design expresses the unique geography and history of Calgary, located at the heart of Alberta, where the western prairies meet the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The area’s iconic imagery includes the lone barn on the vast open prairie landscape; the teepees of the region’s aboriginal inhabitants—the Scarce and the Stony peoples; and the Alberta rose, which blooms wild and is the province’s official floral emblem. These elements inspired and informed the design process, beginning with the structure and form-making to the deliberate lighting, colors and finish material selections.
