The city’s performing arts centre is transforming into a ‘campus’ of two buildings linked by lively public space
ACT_Expansion_Exterior_Nightime.jpg An exterior nighttime rendering shows the Arts Commons Transformation expansion’s curved form, exterior cladding, and interior finishes inspired by Alberta’s dramatic landscapes and the regional lodge typologies.Downtown Calgary urgently needs new energy, and the city’s performing-arts centre is ready to give the city a jolt.
Arts Commons president and chief executive officer Alex Sarian, in an interview this week, sounded most excited about the landscape portion of the project. “To have a massive outdoor space as our front door changes everything,” he said. “The plaza becomes a hub for cultural activity, free family programming and just hanging out.”
It also drew on Indigenous traditions, particularly the cross-cultural idea of a lodge, a collective gathering place. “The lodge is a very Indigenous concept, and it exists from east to west,” Wanda Dalla Costa of Tawaw added. “From the shed house on the West Coast to the wigwam on the East Coast and the tipi in the middle, these forms are all quite complex, but they share a ruggedness in their shapes that we wanted to evoke here.
On their success will hinge a larger economic goal: bringing people into the downtown, which has historically been very heavy on office space and which was walloped by oil price shocks and then the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, office vacancies
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