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Old Posted Sep 18, 2020, 8:06 PM
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People seem to be forgetting that it used to look like this.
But the old building is not what's at issue here...we're talking about the new one.
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New doesnt mean better. The new building is cool and unique. We'll see how everything looks when it's all said and done. Overall I think it's cool, like I said. If we want to talk about how it fits with the original, IMO it's doing zero favours.
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That strip mall facade cut into one of the most important pieces of architecture in Canada is even more ham fisted than I feared. The floor is not at sidewalk level so they had to add a freaking ramp to it. It blows my mind that an art gallery of all places would not respect the design and desecrate the building for something as crass as a commercial gift shop. The WAG is better than that.

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Old Posted Sep 18, 2020, 9:51 PM
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Up close that looks a lot worse than I thought it did.
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I'm not sure about the glazing, but otherwise I think the addition is a very successful intervention. Yes, it alters the existing building (which I was a fan of), but the juxtaposition is interesting and respectful. It doesn't erase the sculptural qualities of the original, rather it is two sculptures juxtaposed. It is really only one face that looks substantially different, and even there you see the qualities of the original.
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Up close that looks a lot worse than I thought it did.
the soffit looks particularly bad. is that the finished product?
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I'm not sure about the glazing, but otherwise I think the addition is a very successful intervention. Yes, it alters the existing building (which I was a fan of), but the juxtaposition is interesting and respectful. It doesn't erase the sculptural qualities of the original, rather it is two sculptures juxtaposed. It is really only one face that looks substantially different, and even there you see the qualities of the original.
I agree. Plus, I am sure people in wheelchairs or with limited mobility aren't as offended by the ramp leading to the door. Just sayin'
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I agree. Plus, I am sure people in wheelchairs or with limited mobility aren't as offended by the ramp leading to the door. Just sayin'
Indeed. I thought eyes on the street and open building faces were hallmarks of good design! I guess not in this case. As for the ramp, where are all our accessibility advocates now? I guess those in wheelchairs only deserve equal access when it doesn't interfere with what some perceive as great architecture.
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I have to admit, it looks great when you're heading up Osborne N.
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It blows my mind that an art gallery of all places would not respect the design and desecrate the building for something as crass as a commercial gift shop. The WAG is better than that.
That's the part that surprises me most too. It's the principle behind it. It would be a travesty to alter the artworks within the gallery, yet somehow the iconic piece of architecture that encloses the galleries is exempt from being treated with the same respect. And is this all in the hope of getting more foot traffic to enter the gift shop? I would imagine that most of their sales come from people who are either visiting the galleries, or people who came to the shop as destination--to find a cool gift. But I guess they want to attract random passerby's to pop in and spontaneously buy an $80 coffee mug.

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^Yup, all those hoards of people walking down the east side of Memorial.
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I would have thought that they'd have had a building committee that would be mandated to ensure that the design of the building is respected. I guess someone thought it was a way of uniting the two designs, but to me it diminishes the experience of entering the gallery, which was quite brilliantly orchestrated, and degrades the geometry of the facade.

To be fair, it faithfully reflects the reinvention of art museums as shopping destinations over the past 20-30 years. Can hardly wait to see how the Big Gulp and Lotto 6/49 signs look.
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The view from St. Mary is awesome too, I actually love how the buildings play off each other. IAC really feels like a windrift gently sweeping behind WAG. Looks great.
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That's the part that surprises me most too. It's the principle behind it. It would be a travesty to alter the artworks within the gallery, yet somehow the iconic piece of architecture that encloses the galleries is exempt from being treated with the same respect. And is this all in the hope of getting more foot traffic to enter the gift shop? I would imagine that most of their sales come from people who are either visiting the galleries, or people who came to the shop as destination--to find a cool gift. But I guess they want to attract random passerby's to pop in and spontaneously buy an $80 coffee mug.

Even with the street level requirement could they not have reconfigured it to have the gift shop in the new addition and street level access off there and leave the original building alone?
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Café is going to into the street level of the new building. There is no room for a gift shop.
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Qaumajuq to illuminate downtown
Indigenous advisory council chooses Inuktitut word meaning 'it is bright' for the name of WAG's new Inuit Art Centre
By: Melissa Martin | Posted: 10/28/2020



Light matters in the North, in a way the people who live there understand in their bones.

There's the light of summer, undying, shared by a sun that never fully sets. There's the light of the winter, thrown by lamps that allow life to thrive in the darkness, and by stars glinting in nights that never end.

"Us northerners that live in 24-hour darkness in the wintertime, brightness is awfully important to us, because we do need light, because we continuously create either art or clothing," said Theresie Tungilik, from Rankin Inlet, an artist and adviser for the Nunavut government.

"We need that light to see what we are creating."

For years, the things Inuit create in that light, the paintings and carvings and works of textile art, have captured the wider art world. Now, when the Winnipeg Art Gallery's new Inuit Art Centre opens in early 2021, it will bear a name that speaks to where those works come from, how they were made and the spirit in which they'll be shown.

Qaumajuq. In the way of Inuktitut words, it consists of a root grown and shaped into a verb: it means "it is bright," or else, "it is lit." A word that calls to mind the luminosity of northern light, and the conversation it keeps between snow and water and sky, a factor that also inspired the architect who designed the $65-million building.

The name was chosen by an Indigenous advisory council composed of people from across all four regions of Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland, as well as the Cree, Ojibway, Dakota and Métis nations. They chose a name for the centre and for the spaces in and around it, bestowing them with words that sing with meaning....
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Looks great. The finished product is very impressive, the masonry really looks top notch. I can't wait to check it out when it opens.

Still not quite 100% sold on how the new building meshes with the old one, but I'll keep an open mind when I visit
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