The Vancouver Art Gallery will receive nearly $30-million from the federal government to help build its new net zero facility with a planned opening in 2027 at West Georgia and Cambie Streets..The money includes $4.3 million from Heritage Canada and $25 million from Infrastructure Canada’s green and inclusive community buildings program — an initiative launched in 2021 to support “green and accessible retrofits” and the funding of new buildings that "serve high-needs, underserved communities across Canada.".The new building will be called the Vancouver Art Gallery at the Chan Centre for Visual Arts, and the facility will include a multipurpose indigenous community house, theatre, public art spaces, and what officials call “initiatives and programming for marginalized and underserved groups.”.Officials boast that the new building will “exceed net zero carbon standards,” helping meet “the highest energy efficiency standards for meeting Canada’s climate goals.”.With the new funding, the art gallery has now raised nearly $270-million of its $400-million goal..“The new Chan Centre for Visual Arts will be a state-of-the-art cultural facility that will exemplify the best of socially inclusive and eco-friendly projects, encouraging community connections in a sustainable environment,” said Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry after she announced the new funding Monday..“Community-focused and accessible, the centre will promote cultural and artistic engagement, while meeting passive house standards — the green ideal for clean, energy-efficient building design.”.Fry was joined by Vancouver Art Gallery CEO and director Anthony Kiendl, who said the funding is necessary to make the new gallery an “international leader in environmental sustainability.”.Gallery space will take up 82,000 sq. ft of of the new solar-heated building’s total 300,000 sq. ft., which is more than twice the size of the current gallery at Robson Square — a location famous for holding massive protests and disruptions since the 1930s..The BC government has contributed $50 million to the project, so far.
The Vancouver Art Gallery will receive nearly $30-million from the federal government to help build its new net zero facility with a planned opening in 2027 at West Georgia and Cambie Streets..The money includes $4.3 million from Heritage Canada and $25 million from Infrastructure Canada’s green and inclusive community buildings program — an initiative launched in 2021 to support “green and accessible retrofits” and the funding of new buildings that "serve high-needs, underserved communities across Canada.".The new building will be called the Vancouver Art Gallery at the Chan Centre for Visual Arts, and the facility will include a multipurpose indigenous community house, theatre, public art spaces, and what officials call “initiatives and programming for marginalized and underserved groups.”.Officials boast that the new building will “exceed net zero carbon standards,” helping meet “the highest energy efficiency standards for meeting Canada’s climate goals.”.With the new funding, the art gallery has now raised nearly $270-million of its $400-million goal..“The new Chan Centre for Visual Arts will be a state-of-the-art cultural facility that will exemplify the best of socially inclusive and eco-friendly projects, encouraging community connections in a sustainable environment,” said Vancouver Centre MP Hedy Fry after she announced the new funding Monday..“Community-focused and accessible, the centre will promote cultural and artistic engagement, while meeting passive house standards — the green ideal for clean, energy-efficient building design.”.Fry was joined by Vancouver Art Gallery CEO and director Anthony Kiendl, who said the funding is necessary to make the new gallery an “international leader in environmental sustainability.”.Gallery space will take up 82,000 sq. ft of of the new solar-heated building’s total 300,000 sq. ft., which is more than twice the size of the current gallery at Robson Square — a location famous for holding massive protests and disruptions since the 1930s..The BC government has contributed $50 million to the project, so far.
