The Meadows Community Recreation Centre and Meadows Library will provide year-round recreational opportunities for the surrounding local and regional neighbourhoods. With a focus on creating relationships between indoor and outdoor programs, the facility emphasizes transparency to create an active space that is open and welcoming during every season of the year. Indoor amenities include a twin-pad ice arena, an aquatic complex that includes a recreation pool and slide as well as a competition and whirlpool, two-level fitness area with an indoor track, multi-purpose gymnasium, community multi-purpose rooms, and a 15,000 ft2 branch library. Complementary outdoor amenities include a leisure skate area, multi-use courts, an exterior library reading garden and amphitheatre, spray park, and tennis and beach volleyball courts. Inspiration for the project was taken from the Alberta landscape, utilizing the Dominion Grid as a theme for organizing and ordering the site and its components. Architectural ideas explore the building as topography, reflecting the Alberta landscape through an undulating roofscape whose diverging slopes present opportunities for clerestory glazing and the provision of natural light to the interior. This project is targeting LEED® Silver certification, and includes sustainable features such as a vegetated roof, efficient mechanical systems, re-use of waste heat for the arena spectator seating area, efficient pool filtration systems, and reduced water consumption.(summary imported from CAGBC database. remove this message if edited) READ MORE