Government of Canada Receives Award for Halifax Heritage Project
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA–(Marketwire – Feb. 15, 2010) –
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The Government of Canada currently perceived the Built Heritage Award from the Nova Scotia Heritage Trust for the Repair Project on the seven-storey bureau office bureau office building of the Dominion Public Building in downtown Halifax. The building, with the domed roof tiles tiles tiles surfaced with the Canadian flag, is a distinguished partial of the city skyline.
“The Dominion Public Building has dutifully served Canadians, open servants and the Government of Canada for over 70 years,” pronounced the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada. “This correct and charge plan ensures it will go on to do so for most years to come.”
The two-year, $8 million plan was finished in the summer of 2009 by Masontech, the initial executive for the correct project. Masontech had to number, remove and afterwards reinstate all 2,693 sandstone blocks from the tower, which encompasses the eighth to the fourteenth floors of the building. Some of the stones weighed as most as 900 kg. Included were 8 six-foot-high seahorse sculptures which accoutre the bureau office bureau office building nearby the roofline. The domed bureau office bureau office building additionally perceived a brand brand new copper roof tiles tiles tiles in gripping with the strange finish.
“It was never the goal to ‘preserve’ the Dominion Public Building in a time capsule, but to revive the building’s constructional firmness whilst maintaining the necessary birthright worth so which it could go on to duty as an fit and tasteful item in Halifax’s downtown core prolonged in to the future,” pronounced Minister Ambrose.
The endowment will be presented in a rite at Halifax Hall, located in Halifax City Hall, at 3:00 p.m. on Heritage Day, Feb 15, 2010.
BACKGROUNDER
Bedford Row Tower Project
The Dominion Public Building at 1713 Bedford Row, Halifax finished in 1936, creatively served as a classification hire and executive offices for Canada Post until 1990. With the particular domed tower, it was the initial ‘skyscraper’ to be assembled in Halifax. The make up is one of usually dual sovereign supervision buildings finished in the afterwards British Commonwealth during the short power of Edward the Eighth. The Dominion Public Building has been directed towards as a “Recognized” sovereign birthright bureau office bureau office building and is additionally a Registered Municipal Heritage Property. A four-storey further was assembled regulating sensitive materials in the early 1960s.
The extraneous is clad with slab at belligerent turn and Wallace sandstone on the superfluous fourteen floors. The musical motifs elicit the Art Deco duration from the expel bronze panels depicting fish, an automobile, sight and boat to the geometric and rather Egyptian impression motifs in sandstone surrounding the main entrance. The Federal Coat of Arms is displayed in service on a lifted wall on top of the entrance. Eight nine-foot tall seahorses accoutre the bureau office bureau office building itself.
In 1991, Public Works and Government Services Canada finished a vital restoration to modify the Dominion Public Building to general-purpose bureau space. At which time the main run areas were easy to their former glory. The hexagonal coronet light fixtures were discovered from the basement, remade and reinstalled. Perimeter marble walls were distant and remounted in their strange positions. Brass postal wickets and doors were restored. Other special sum together with marble seahorse and bombard mosaics, coronet grills and terrazzo depictions of the Bluenose and compass have been preserved. In 1993, the dialect was awarded a Citation from the Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor for Adaptive Reuse and Restoration of the Dominion Public Building.
Since then, critical H2O steam influenced the constructional support and masonry anchorages in the tower. Rusting of masonry anchors resulted in a little banishment of the sandstone cladding compounded by the goods of freeze/thaw. Although few and localized repointing was achieved on the extraneous of the Tower, the base means of mill banishment and corner disaster was not addressed. Restoration has prevented critical banishment of the stonework and confirmed the reserve of the ubiquitous open and bureau office bureau office building users.
As partial of the project, the Wallace sandstone cladding was private and stored, and the steel superstructure repaired. The bureau office bureau office building was made up to simulate the strange impression together with a brand brand new copper roof tiles tiles tiles on the dome. The plan was finished in the summer of 2009 at a price of $8 million.
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