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Banner: The Portrait Gallery of Canada

The adaptive re-use of 100 Wellington Street for the Portrait Gallery of Canada,
combined with a state-of-the-art addition, becomes an architectural portrait
of the evolution of our remarkable country.

New Portrait Gallery : Renovation and Construction


Photo of a Detail of the 100 Wellington Street Building
Detail of the 100 Wellington Street
Building (photo: Luc Bouvrette)

The renovation of this classified heritage building demonstrates the commitment made by the Government of Canada to preserving our country's architectural treasures and symbols.

As the custodian of the Portrait Gallery of Canada (PGC) property and the Real Property Services provider, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) established a partnership with the PGC and Library and Archives of Canada in 2001. They provide the leadership and the management expertise required to secure the various contracts, and to manage the private sector planners, designers and contractors for the proposed building for the PGC.

They are committed to ensuring that this new facility respects the heritage value of the former American Embassy, is built in an environmentally sustainable manner and that it enhances the urban fabric of our capital city. PWGSC is proud to provide the professional services necessary to assist and support the PGC in discharging their public mandate to Canadians.

The unique new design achieves an exciting and graceful balance of heritage and modern architecture. Its combined forms reflect the Portrait Gallery's mandate to reach across time to reveal the faces and lives of past and present Canadians to future generations.

 

 

New Portrait Gallery : Virtual Tour


Select animation: AERIAL VIEW • COURTYARD • INTERIOR


New Portrait Gallery : Conceptual Design

 

Quotes from architect Edward Jones of Dixon Jones - London

Drawing of Interlocking Forms

  

Interlocking Forms - The interlocking forms of the existing embassy building and the PGC addition are illustrated in these studies. The role of the cantilevered roof acts as a significant unifying device. The cornice lines of the Langevin Building and 100 Wellington Street are important regulators in the composition.

 

Drawing of Courtyard Portico

  

Courtyard Portico - Building as portico - with the rhetoric of Parliament Hill opposite and with its distinguished neighbours, the entrance to the PGC presented a significant architectural challenge. Whilst the courtyard acts as a device to set the new building away from Cass Gilbert's fine west elevation and to provide a place of orientation and public display, it also acts as a giant portico and sign of entrance to the new gallery.

 

Drawing of Light Modulator

  

Light Modulator - The entrance hall forms a deliberate connection between the permanent collection housed in the existing embassy and the galleries for temporary exhibitions provided for in the new addition. The cascading stair and the dramatically tall top lit hall establish this as a space of orientation and of mediation between new and old.

 

Design: Model 1

 

Design: Model 2



Photo: View of Entrance and Courtyard

“The building should be a house of the people confidently facing its legislature across Wellington Street.” – Edward Jones

View of Entrance and Courtyard

 

Photo: Courtyard Elevation - Heritage Building

Left: Courtyard Elevation - New Building
Right: Courtyard Elevation - Heritage Building

 

Photo: Partial Elevation

“Our approach will be to make a sophisticated, yet subtle and beautiful work of architecture.” – Stephen Teeple

Partial Elevation

 

Photo: Main Staircase

Main Staircase

 

Photo: View from Main Staircase

View from Main Staircase towards Parliament Hill

 

Photo: Model Detail

The unique new design achieves an exciting and graceful balance of heritage and modern architecture.
The design employs a simple palette of high quality materials expressing the importance and prestige appropriate to its use.

View from Parliament Hill

 

Photo: View West along Wellington Street

View West along Wellington Street


New Portrait Gallery : Architects


Edward Jones of Jeremy Dixon . Edward Jones, London, United Kingdom

“The Portrait Gallery of Canada in its contemporary role is to represent a multi racial and multi ethnic country and the character for such an architecture will not be found in the history books. The building should be a house of the people confidently facing its legislature across Wellington Street.” - Edward Jones


Stephen Teeple of Teeple Architects Inc., Toronto, Ontario

“Our approach will be to make a sophisticated, yet subtle and beautiful work of architecture.” - Stephen Teeple


David Cole of Cole + Associates Architects Inc., Ottawa, Ontario

“Excellence Only Happens by Design.” - David Cole


New Portrait Gallery : Exhibit Designers


Anthony Reich of Reich + Petch Design International, Toronto, Ontario

“Our design philosophy for the Portrait Gallery of Canada: like a painting we aim to create a design that has diverse themes and gestures, joined in tension and harmony.” - Anthony Reich / Stephen Petri

 

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