Admiral Nelson
Jul 31, 2011, 4:36 AM
The project will house the City of Ottawa Archives and the Ottawa Public Library’s Technical Services and Materials Management. The 92,000 sq.ft. building will be constructed at the south-west corner of Woodroffe Avenue and Tallwood Drive; immediately west of the proposed southwest Transitway. The building will be three storeys cast in place concrete structure atop a piled foundation. The exterior finish will be a combination of masonry and composite cement panels.
The Library Materials Handling Centre will house two distinct functions from the Ottawa Public Library. Technical Services is the group that manages the purchase of new library material and the processing of the material from the point that it arrives from a publisher to the point at which it is in the Library’s general circulation.
Materials Handling manages the material in circulation that flows to and from all of the City’s 33 branches; material will arrive and will flow through a computerized sorting system that automatically sorts materials into the specific branch destinations.
I'm very pleasantly surprised by the final product. Some photos from the open house:
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/6485/img3081p.jpg
1% for the arts :D
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7823/img3067ps.jpg
http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/6236/img3061pe.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/6282/img3075p.jpg
Archives vault
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/3378/img3076px.jpg
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/2607/img3074p.jpg
The view from the 3rd floor. That's the former Nepean City Hall on the far left (also the site of the Centrepointe Theatre), the City of Ottawa offices at 100 Constellation behind it, and the new Algonquin building's on the right.
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3712/img3063pp.jpg
The Library Materials Handling Centre will house two distinct functions from the Ottawa Public Library. Technical Services is the group that manages the purchase of new library material and the processing of the material from the point that it arrives from a publisher to the point at which it is in the Library’s general circulation.
Materials Handling manages the material in circulation that flows to and from all of the City’s 33 branches; material will arrive and will flow through a computerized sorting system that automatically sorts materials into the specific branch destinations.
I'm very pleasantly surprised by the final product. Some photos from the open house:
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/6485/img3081p.jpg
1% for the arts :D
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7823/img3067ps.jpg
http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/6236/img3061pe.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/6282/img3075p.jpg
Archives vault
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/3378/img3076px.jpg
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/2607/img3074p.jpg
The view from the 3rd floor. That's the former Nepean City Hall on the far left (also the site of the Centrepointe Theatre), the City of Ottawa offices at 100 Constellation behind it, and the new Algonquin building's on the right.
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3712/img3063pp.jpg