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Congratulations on the Maple Leaf Gardens Renewal. We are proud to be part of the team! volleyball courts for intramurals or where bleachers can be rolled out to create a single court for spectator events. Daylight will trickle into the building here and throughout the arena and central circulation space thanks to the reclamation of the once-painted-over steel industrial heritage windows. The nowef icient double-glazed glass installations are the work of E.R.A. Architects, which replaced approximately 260 window groups, with some Carlton Street-side groups counting as many 200 panels. Brought in by Loblaws to coordinate the restoration work, E.R.A. Architects was also responsible for the masonry remediation, repointing and restoring some 35,000 square feet of brick and masonry, as well as rebuilding the marquee. "The marquee was not original to the building. It was added in 1948," explains E.R.A.'s Will McIvor. "But most people remember it and we wanted to create something people could identify." Using contemporary materials and LED lighting, the new marquee hangs over Ryerson's main entrance, and is part of the historical programming elements designed to highlight the importance of the space as a place where Torontonians came to gather. Eight-foot-high panels will feature photos and illustrations grouped by themes such as political rallies and cultural events (an Elvis concert, for example) to key hockey and basketball igure and moments. "We wanted the building to be a living artifact," explains McIvor, adding that interpretive elements such as a display featuring the recently uncovered time capsule and dynamic projections by the main escalators serve to acknowledge the building's history while elements of Ryerson's branding such as gold and blue banding speak to its new importance. "We are restoring a historic treasure and giving it back to the city," says the university's athletic director Ivan Joseph, explaining that programming for the basketball courts, itness studios, classrooms and arena along with the presence of a main loor grocery will make it useful to the neighbourhood as much as to the city. "It's enriching the community because it is creating a building that will serve more people than just a sliver of a demographic looking for ice." ■ Elite Door & Hardware Inc. Ryerson University Athletic Centre at the Gardens (Maple Leaf Gardens Renewal) Welmar Recreational Products is pleased to be a member of the project team providing the dasher boards for Ryerson's Mattamy Athletic Centre. BUILDING BETTER BOARDS Tel: 519-763-6633 | Fax: 519-763-2013 www.arenaboards.com J.I. Plumbing & Heating Ltd. Many thanks to BBB Architects, Buttcon Ltd. and Capital Drywall for making acoustics and Technature part of this successful project Pleased to be the Plumbing & Heating Contractor for the Central 1 project. 376 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 1T1 Telephone: 416.594.6558 Fax: 416.861.0620 1566 Laperriere Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7T2 Tel: 613-722-8638 | Fax: 613-722-1814 E: jiplumbing@primus.ca p.68-73Maple Leaf.indd 73 www.technature.ca i n n o v a t i v e a c o u s t i c p r o d u c t s 3/26/12 2:34:33 PM