Laurier Brantford YMCA, Ontario Spa and Pool Building Project, Canadian Architecture Images
Laurier Brantford YMCA in Ontario
Commercial Health and Wellness Building Project in ON, Canada ? design by CannonDesign
17 Nov 2019
Laurier Brantford YMCA
Architects: CannonDesign
Location: Brantford, Ontario, Canada

The result of a dynamic partnership between the YMCA of Hamilton|Burlington|Brantford and Wilfrid Laurier University, the Laurier Brantford YMCA revitalizes the City of Brantford as a hub for community health, recreation and wellness.

The two clients worked together through a highly collaborative design process that ensured all ideas and possibilities were uncovered and needs best met as they shaped a project to create exciting new opportunities for students and local residents.
Located at the confluence of a dynamic city edge, the center is conceived as an integrated design that offers the public a unified and cohesive experience asserting a new identity to the block and city as a whole.

The design focuses on three themes ? memory, movement and landscape ? as it draws upon the rhythms and patterns of buildings that previously filled the location while creating new possibilities.

“This project marks the heritage of Brantford with purposeful touches like accenting the building’s glazing pattern along the Colborne Street facade with superimposed plot lines of mullions to retain the rhythm of the streetscape the YMCA replaced,” explains James...