Photo Credit : Tom Arban Photography
Architectural Credit : Patkau Architects & MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects

While not a Pan Am competition site for Toronto 2015, this OAA Design Excellence Award 2015 winner will serve as a practice venue for men’s and women’s volleyball. Designed by Patkau Architects & MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects, the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport is a multi-storey sport and exercise facility housing a 2,000 seat, internationally-rated field house for basketball, volleyball and other court sports, a strength and conditioning centre, fitness studio, sport medicine clinic and research and teaching laboratories. Responding to the compact nature of its urban site, the field house is located underground where it can occupy the full width of the site. To preserve the necessary clear span, the strength and conditioning centre is suspended above from 55 m long trusses, providing the project with its highly recognizable exterior expression. For more information and images of the Goldring Centre, please visit: http://www.patkau.ca/project/goldring.htm# / http://www.mjmarchitects.com/?mid=goldring&node_srl=5419