The Humber Cultural Hub, a range of technologies for arts and culture
Toronto / Canada
Client: The Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Lead contractors: Plan Group, a subsidiary of BYES, assisted by EllisDon, DSAI Architects and Smith & Andersen
The Humber Cultural Hub is an ambitious and innovative project to transform the Lakeshore campus, one of three campuses of the Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning. Intended to be the epicentre of creativity for students, industry and the local art community, the future cultural centre will cover a surface area of around 35,000 m². It will comprise a multidisciplinary performance space with professional quality multimedia post-production and projection facilities, a music laboratory, 3D animation spaces as well as a large, light-filled atrium, outdoor spaces and an amphitheatre for well-known events such as the Festival of Culture and Doors Open Toronto. The buildings are designed to offer a large amount of flexibility of use and will include cutting-edge IT equipment such as biometric surveillance and map projection.
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Key figures
33,500 m²
floor area
2 performance halls
2 multidisciplinary performance halls with 600 and 150 seats
1
recital room
1 atrium
2024
Due to be completed in autumn 2024
Further information
Of note
Sustainability is an integral part of the project. The zero carbon building is aiming for Platinum-level LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
Did you know?
IPD model
For this project, Plan Group is working with its partners using the integrated project delivery (IPD) model, based on a team-centric approach in which architects, technical consultants, the general contractor and the main subcontractors work together from the outset to ensure that the end result is exactly what the client wanted.