Trafalgar Park Community Centre, Ontario Building Project, Canadian Architecture Images
Trafalgar Park Community Centre in Oakville
Public Building Project in ON, Canada ? design by Diamond Schmitt Architects
26 Sep 2018
Trafalgar Park Community Centre
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects
Location: Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Trafalgar Park Community Centre
A revitalized and expanded recreational facility has opened in Oakville, Ontario to meet the needs of a diverse and growing community. The Trafalgar Park Community Centre designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects transforms a site that has been a community hub for more than 60 years.

The heritage Oakville Arena, with its distinctive wood truss roof system, is preserved and enlarged and now connects to an adjacent recreational facility. New program areas include a full-size gymnasium, running track, seniors centre with amenities, fitness centre and public meeting spaces. To the arena, the ice surface was expanded to NHL-size, with additional seating, new dressing rooms and an enclosed warm viewing area. ?Originally, the community centre addition was to have gone behind the rink and we pulled it to the street to activate the urban landscape and preserve the park setting,? said David Dow, Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects. ?With the new building almost equal in size to the arena, we established a design dialogue between the two by emphasizing the mass of each ? the large scale existing roof is balanced against the mass of t...