Ready for Takeoff: Centennial College Downsview Campus Bombardier Centre for Aerospace and Aviation, Downsview Park, Toronto, Ontario
A glass-box hangar was added to the adaptively reused de Havilland building, allowing modern aircraft with larger wingspans to be used as teaching aids for aviation technicians-in-training. Photo by doublespace photography
PROJECT Centennial College Downsview Campus Bombardier Centre for Aerospace and Aviation, Downsview Park, Toronto, Ontario
ARCHITECTS MJMA Architecture & Design + Stantec ? Architects
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TEXT Aidan Mitchelmore
Turning off Keele Street, just minutes north from the commotion of Toronto?s busy Highway 401, the city retreats. It is quiet, calm. The expansive grass fields and unobstructed sky views of the former Downsview Airport are a fitting landscape for a new aviation hub.Â
The secondary hangar, now used as a teaching area, is a repurposed hangar from the 1940 portion of the building. The original bridge crane is still used to move helicopters and small aircraft within the space. Photo by Scott Norsworthy Centennial College?s facility for Aviation and Engineering Technology & Applied Science, designed by MJMA and Stantec with ERA as Heritage Architects, is an adaptive reuse project situated within the geographic heart of Canadian aviation history. The school proudly occupies one of the most significant of several sprawling aircraft buildings that flank the lengthy Downsview runway. The historic de Havilland of Canada building is the oldest surviving aircraft factory in Canada; it?s where nearly 3,000 Tiger Moth aircraft and some 1,134...
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