Building Blocks on Balmoral (Canada Life Daycare)

Client | Prairie Architects
Location | Winnipeg, MB
Year Completed | 2017

LEED® Platinum 

 

New sustainable childcare facility providing 100 licensed childcare spots to Canada Life employees and the West Broadway community. The heritage building provides a warm entrance to the facility additions on each side while still blending with the surrounding housing.

The central block of the daycare is a heritage building known as the Milner house, named after the family who had owned it since it’s construction in 1909. (http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/milnerhouse.shtml) The house’s foundation was fully replaced, with the superstructure repaired and strengthened during construction. During construction the house was slid approximately 30m south to facilitate foundation installation, using massive steel beams slathered in biodegradable dishsoap and supported on cribbing. So it got cleaned up and repurposed in multiple ways.

 
 

Photography: Lindsay Reid