THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY WATERFRONT RELOCATION PROJECT

摘要

Until the 1970s, Thunder Bay's port was a key node between the Prairie railways and Great Lakes freight routes across Canada. A former shipyard, Prince Arthur's Landing is the new home for an art gallery. The site, say the architects, is "beautiful but wounded." It looks across the water at the majestic Sleeping Giant geological formation, identified in an Ojibway legend as the body of the trickster Nanabijou. But the shoreline suffers from soil contamination and is estranged from the daily lives of Thunder Bay's residents. Can a gallery—equal parts museum, community centre and social hub—begin to heal these wounds?