Role: Full structural engineering services
This approximately $300 million CDN project will be the largest human rights institution and education centre in the world. It is the first Canadian national museum to be created since 1967, and will be located outside of the National Capital Region. Museum organisers expect that the world will embrace the Canadian Museum for Human Rights as a powerful symbol of Canada’s unwavering commitment to recognising, promoting, and celebrating human rights.
The dramatic features include: a lobby area, with access to a café, bookstore, and resource centre, and a gallery of temporary exhibits; a theatre; a central atrium and garden – Winnipeg’s Winter Garden; and the ‘Tower of Hope’, a prismatic glass tower offering museum-goers a panoramic view of the sky and city. All areas are connected by a series of bridges. The building also includes spaces for the researching, archiving and collecting activities of the Museum.
The museum is scheduled to open in 2012.