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Young, Elizabeth

What would happen if we slowed down to become familiar with the existing? What would we discover about a building’s past life or the material’s inherent value? What joy and presence could it bring? The Collingwood Grain Terminals located in Collingwood, Ontario are a system of concrete silos that were hand poured in 1929 over the course of nine months on a twenty-four-hour schedule. After storing grain for 64 years, activity ceased, and the Terminals were shut down. Though they have been vacant ever since the closure, their immense scale and prominent location made them an icon for the town. However, with the current climatic disruption, we are now in a time of resource impoverishment. This project proposes a renewal of the Collingwood Grain Terminals in a way that allows the materiality and irregularities of the existing building to guide and inspire a potential new life.

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University of British Columbia. ARCH_V 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448892

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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