OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, September 9, 2010
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Roundhouse Engine 374 Pavilion

“Creating a real “people place” to relax, play, socialize, enjoy events, and explore neighbourhood heritage”.
The turntable is a historic public plaza that with the exception of a few programmed events is rarely used on
a day to day casual basis even though the surrounding neighbourhood is busy and bustling. The mandate of this project is to protect, promote and enhance the existing character and heritage values of the turntable by introducing new, more contemporary but historically compatible elements to animate the plaza and create
a stronger sense of place. These elements would provide places to sit, give shelter from the rain as well as
shade from the sun, create a focal point on the plaza for events and performances and provide an opportunity for food and drink. Please note some of the elements of the proposed list of changes are tentative as costs for the various elements are still being investigated.

• Turntable bridge turn to a more N/S direction to help create a better defined performance space and to
better bring people into the Roundhouse plaza.
• One or two cranes reminiscent of early railway cranes to support light shelter/shading canopies with
cables for lighting, banners, and aerial performances to increase current casual and programmed usage
options while enhancing the industrial architectural style.
• Viewing platform overlooking the Turntable pit to feature the bridge turning mechanism and to create an
opportunity for historical Interpretation to tell the story of the historic turntable and the Roundhouse.
• Mist/steam feature for children and families to enjoy reminiscent of the “Age of Steam”.
• To create and enhance a ‘sense of place’ and animate the plaza, strong, colourful and playful forms e.g.
furniture, modular flexible seating, trees, etc.
• Re-purposed brick portico (the brick structure next to the Engine 374 Pavilion) for possible vending kiosk.

Learn more about the plans to turn the turntable plaza into a more interesting,
interactive, and inviting plaza. The dream is to make it more suitable for sitting,
relaxing, enjoying meeting your neighbours, special events, performances and
more. Come see the design concepts and drawings.
Your ideas and comments are welcome.
For further information on this project, please call
Ernest Fanthorpe, Park Board Facility Development Coordinator 604 257 – 8458

The enclosed information while deemed to be correct is not guaranteed.

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