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Gerrard Street and north through the site to Riverdale Park." On the east-west axis, pedestrians can come through the site's civic court and into the building's main lobby. Here pedestrians can enjoy the terrace views to the west or exit and move through the gardens to the north and out to the park. "The idea was that we could bring the landscape of Riverdale Park and the Don Valley right into the site through the civic court and ideally up through the building with the terraces on the fifth floor and the roof garden on the tenth," says KPMB's Mitchell Hall. Working with the design exemplar, prime consultants HDR Architecture faced challenges with maintaining the building as it was specified while finding improvements and innovations as it moved the project to completion. "We wound up changing the stacking of the hospital on the lowest level because it provided better access to parking for outpatients," says Tod Location Gerrard Street & Broadview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Owner Bridgepoint Health Owners' advisor Infrastructure Ontario Developer/project manager Plenary Group Planning, Design & Compliance Architects Stantec Architecture / KPMB Architects Design-Build contractor PCL Constructors Canada Inc. Architects HDR Architecture / Diamond Schmitt Architects Incorporated Heritage Architects + VG Architects Structural/leed consultant 13-02-28 10:33 AM Halsall Associates limited Mechanical/ Electrical Consultant Smith and Andersen Consulting Engineering Landscape Architect The MBTW Group Civil Consultant A. M. Candaras Associates Inc. Urban Design ConsultantS Urban Strategies Total Area 680,000 square feet Total Construction Cost $622 million (build and operate) Bridgepoint Hospital 13-04-04 12:09 PM p64-67Bridgepoint Hospital.indd 67 Trigg, a senior project manager with HDR. The team included former hospital administrators capable of providing Bridgepoint with detailed explanations of how nurses would work within the new building's programming. "As the architects charged with delivery we had to propose alternatives to the design to achieve the same design intent," explains Brian McClean, HDR's associate managing principal. Design-build contractor, Plan Group Inc., says that respecting and retaining the historic fabric of the building was integral. While there were physical space limitations involved in the project, these were solved by the co-location of some services. In addition, Plan Group used a number of innovative solutions to enhance the building. One of the technological solutions was the implementation of an Integrated Management Information Monitoring System which allows certain users in the facility to monitor alerts and see notifications from the various building systems all with one user interface . The repurposing of the old Don Jail was also a matter of maintaining aspects of architectural intent. The heritage significance of the building and site called for the provision of public areas within that were preserved for historic interpretation. The five-sided rotunda forms the Don Jail's staging and surveillance core and is now a public area. Above, the wooden catwalks once patrolled by guards still ring the upper levels where are now housed senior executive offices. The wings east and west provide further workspace so that as many as 186 users can occupy the building. Cleaning and restoring almost 150 years of dirt and grime on the exterior required considerable work, explains lead heritage architect Paul Sapounzi of The Ventin Group Ltd. (+VG). There are different schools of thought on cleaning, he explains. Do you bring it back to pristine state or do you do the bare minimum and just remove any material that may cause damage? Bridgepoint's heritage architect E.R.A. Architects Inc. outlined in the output specifications that some amount of "patina" was appropriate. Sapounzi's team managed to find that middle ground: not perfectly clean but with most of the heavy staining removed. "We still left a significant amount of the staining because that was an important element of telling the story of the building," he says, adding that it is about balancing the need to acknowledge the site and what went on there with the need to change the story. n Priestly Demo.indd 1 april 2013 /67 13-03-25 4:06 PM 13-04-12 10:45 AM