Heritage consultants GBCA conserve Massey Hall?s ceiling
Since 2012, Toronto-based GBCA Architects has been overseeing the revitalization of the Massey Hall project to ensure the conservation of the original architectural features.
Photo credit: Jag Gundu of Gundu photography
The firm?s principal, Christopher Borgal, worked from the beginning with the design teams to establish an approach to the overall project including modern interventions. GBCA, including their heritage specialists and architectural historian Sharon Vattay, worked closely with KPMB Architects and a team of expert contractors and consultants as they refined the new design for a state-of-the-art performance venue.
Sharon prepared a heritage impact assessment and developed a conservation plan, with critical input from the firm?s preservation specialists, including Carlos Morell, and these documents became the backbone of the conservation project.
Alongside the KPMB enhancements to the interior space and programmatic needs of the music hall, GBCA focussed on the preservation of the integrated historic features such as the decorative column capitals, brass railings, fire hose holders, metal doors, the ogee arched clerestory window openings, and the plaster ceiling with its Moorish inspired ornamentation known as stalactites.
Photo credit: Jag Gundu of Gundu photography
Nearly 130 years later, the original name had stuck ? but not all of the stalactites. Of the 2300, some 900 were missing and needed to be replaced and 200 required re-attachment. About 1200 o...
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