Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury, Canada
Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury, Québec Heritage Architecture, Canadian Building, Images
Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury, Canada
Heritage Architecture and Interior Development in Canada – design by The A49 / DFS / STGM consortium
Nov 5, 2018
Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury
Design: The A49 / DFS / STGM consortium
Location: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury
The A49 / DFS / STGM consortium is proud to note the reopening of the Voltigeurs de Québec Armoury, a decade after the April 2008 fire that caused extensive damage to the building.
Public Services and Procurement Canada engaged the architectural team to design and execute reconstruction work that would safeguard the building?s heritage and respect the architectural integrity of the drawings prepared in 1885 by Eugène-Etienne Taché (1836?1912). The mandate also entailed the opening of the heritage building, the home of the Canadian Forces? Voltigeurs de Québec infantry regiment, to the people of Quebec City and visitors to the city.
The reconstruction project was launched in 2011 and included four main components: restoration of the east wing, dating from 1913-14, where the regiment?s offices are located; addition of a footbridge leading to Battlefields Park and the addition of a new wing on the west side of the armoury, with office space for the federal government; reconstruction of the drill hall as a multifunctional space and construction of a new lobby on the south side of the building t...
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