We are pleased to announce that the new UBC Gateway Building, where the School of Kinesiology is slated to move in 2024, is the winner of the 2021 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence.
The Gateway building will express a sense of welcome and announce Musqueam as the host Nation. It will invite people into the campus heart and inspire a feeling of well-being and home to those who enter it. The Gateway building will also convey that the university is a place of innovation, sustainability, leading-edge research, and forward-thinking ideas.
At the principal point of entry to the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus, the Gateway project will create a place for learning, research, and community outreach through the co-location of the schools of Nursing, Kinesiology, Language Science and UBC health clinics.
Conversations with representatives of the Musqueam First Nation were fundamental to co-creating a contemporary design vision aligned with traditional Musqueam values. The site strategy evokes the lost forest, long stewarded by the Musqueam, where the university now stands. The architecture, which makes extensive use of local wood in its hybrid wood-concrete-steel structural system and the cladding throughout the public spaces, reflects the project’s Pacific Northwest setting and the immediate campus context.
To learn more, visit the Gateway Building page.