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Vancouver Art Gallery Reveals Design For New $300 Million Building

Vancouver Art Gallery Reveals Design For New $300 Million Building

The Vancouver Art Gallery and Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have revealed the design for the future, and highly anticipated Art Gallery.

The 20-storey, 310,000 square-foot, stack of wood structure is like no other in Vancouver, and is influenced by the city’s heritage. In addition, an artist at the revealing mentioned that the building was purposely shaped like an Inukshuk, and pays homage to Vancouver’s natural history.

86,000 square feet of the new VAG will be dedicated to exhibition space, which is double the size of what’s used at the current gallery.

Vancouver Art Gallery Reveals Design For New $300 Million Building

The new Art Gallery will be situated at West Georgia and Cambie, a site that’s currently a parking lot across the street from the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The site was donated by the City of Vancouver, on the terms that the gallery will raise funding for the project – which is expected to be $300-350 million. So far, the Vancouver Art Gallery board of trustees has put forward $23 million, and the province has added another $50 million, bringing the total amount of money raised to $73 million.

Despite facing a decade of delays, the project hopes to be completed in 2021

 

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