After a 3-year restoration - involving the disassembly and reassembly of the entire building - Calgary’s 109-year-old city hall is being unveiled in two weeks. I’m so stoked, it’s such a beautiful little treat in the city. It’s clock is one of only six of its kind ever built.
The building was disassembled brick by brick so that each brick could be cleaned, the grout could be replaced, and the original wooden superstructure be replaced be a steel superstructure. The clock was also restored. I’m really looking forward to seeing how the roof turns out as well.
Here’s from the city website:
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The rehabilitation of Calgary’s Historic City Hall is one of the most significant heritage projects currently underway in Canada. The scope of work is extensive, including restoration of the building’s foundation, roof, verandas, porticos and other structural components in between. The following is a broad overview of the work that will take place:
- Sandstone and concrete of the building’s foundation will be renewed
- New site drainage system
- New structural steel inside the 100 foot clock tower from the third floor up
- Structural rehabilitation on verandas and balconies
- Reinforcement of the cupola and replacement of roof
- Treatments of almost almost every piece of sandstone on the building. Of the building’s 15,522 pieces of sandstone, 15,142 of those have been specified to require some kind of treatment (cleaning, structural fortification or replacement)
- New windows to replicate the originals. Original window frames will be rehabilitated
- Exterior perimeter lighting
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https://www.calgary.ca/CS/CPB/Pages/...jectScope.aspx
This is what it looked like before the restoration:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.660c...city-hall/amp/
https://everydaytourist.ca/
I’ll post pics of the restoration as soon as the wrapping comes down.