Detail: Canadian National Arts Centre Coffers

摘要

How to update Brutalist architecture for today's needs is a question architects are increasingly facing. In Ottawa, the original 1969 National Arts Centre (NAC) building featured repeating hexagonal geometries in both its floor plan and finishes, including the lobby ceiling's triangular concrete coffers, tessellated to create a hexagonal pattern. For a $110 million renovation and expansion project, Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects (DSA)-wrapped the northwest side of the building with a new, multistory lobby, complete with a ceiling that reinterprets the hexagonal forms of the original lobby, but in wood.