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95 King Street East Arts Centre and Lofts in Hamilton, Canada by

TCA / Their + Curran Architects Inc.

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The City of Hamilton Housing Division engaged TCA to adaptively reuse this high visibility historicbuilding and former strip club into an arts centre with a multipurpose gallery/event space, 8 artiststudios, a meeting room and 12 loft apartments. Intended to contribute to the burgeoning downtownrenewal well established nearby, this is intended as a catalyst for renewal of the Gore Park area, atriangular park that is at the heart of downtown Hamilton.

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Architects: TCA / Their + Curran Architects Inc.Project: 95 King Street East Arts Centre and LoftsLocation: Hamilton, CanadaPhotography: DoubleSpace Photography and Kevin Patrick Robbins PhotographySoftware used: ACADStructural: Maitland Spencer EngineeringMechanical: CoPa EngineeringElectrical: Fortech EngineeringConstruction: Porteous-Hardcastle LtdBuilding Area: 489m2Total Floor Area: 1955.4m2No. of Floors: 3 + BasementConstruction Period: 2012.October〜2013.OctoberPrimary use: Gallery / Studios (Ground Floor), Residential (Upper Floors)Client: CityHousing HamiltonDesign Team: Bill Curran, Stevan Gacesa, Kyle Slote

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The building is well over one hundred years old, with a 1923 façade that has been much abused overthe years. It has housed a hardware store, a famous nightclub called Diamond Jim’s, a pool hall andmost notoriously and recently, a strip club. In its nightclub days an intermediate floor was replacedby a partial mezzanine, which TCA removed to make a full two storey high ground floor, addingmuch to the drama of the ground floor spaces and the storefront.

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The program for the project includes a ground floor 1,800 sf space intended as an art gallery andmulti-purpose space. It is two stories high, with a full, glazed storefront and is an inspiring andunique space. There are 4 main floor studios each about 4-500sf, all two stories and daylit byclerestory windows. There are 4 smaller basement studios, a meeting room, shared washrooms andartist wash-up area, laundry, storage, etc.. The upper two floors contain 12 one bedroom loftapartments.


The architects intend the building to be inspiring to work and live in and amenable to fosteringcommunity. Narrow windows in corridors engage residential apartment users with the arts spaces.

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Custom graphics designed by the architects include entrance signage to apartments and studios,including a panel for mounting of personalized identity mementos for the artist tenants. Custom floorgraphics and washroom and stairwell signs were also developed in addition to Arts-relatedinspirational quotes selected by the architects that were placed throughout the building on everyapartment and studio door.


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Soaring ceilings afforded by the existing building heights lend an expansiveness to the loft-styleapartments which are modest in size, ranging from 500 to 700 sq.ft.

Upscale amenities like parquet wood floors, frosted glass sliding bedroom doors and custom woodtrim belie typical affordable housing expectations. Attention to detail has been carried throughout themodest apartments – kitchens have sinks with integral drainboards and gooseneck faucets, ceramictile floors and mosaic glass tile backsplashes and sleek cabinet pulls and door bumpers. Lightfixtures, electrical devices and hardware all received special consideration from the architects withan aim towards selecting stylish yet budget-conscious choices.

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Generous window seats in the front units provide comfort and amenity. Where possible the old andnew have been sensitively blended with some units featuring exposed brick walls and wood ceilingsas well as original steel columns and beams bearing the insignia ‘Hamilton Bridge and Tank Works’ –a storied local company of times past.

All apartments have roller blinds, are air conditioned, have high efficiency combination water heater/ furnace units and have in-suite laundry roughed-in.


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Patterned sheet vinyl floors provide low maintenance flooring in apartment corridors. Economicalvinyl tiles in a random, multi-coloured pattern are used in the basement corridor and finishedspaces.

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matching transom panels and narrow profile metal frames with drywall reveals.


THE ART CENTRE

The arts centre space includes unique design features like a custom steel portal/bench/railing/drinkrail at the transition between levels, unusual LED track lighting and super-slim T-8 suspended lights.Exposed brick walls contain fragments of past lives including old drainpipes, wood framing anddamaged brick areas, all retained to keep the patina of history.

All metal doors were finished by two local artists with metal work experience, Dave Hind and TorLukasik-Foss. Each door treatment is a unique, individual collaboration with the architects, and aremade with hand tools like grinders, sanders and steel plate templates.

Existing concrete floors on the ground floor have been polished as features, left uneven with thepatina of history.


EXTERIOR

On the upper 2 floors, the front masonry façade has been restored with new windows that follow theoriginal design and rehabilitated masonry. The simple dignity of the 1923 façade with its flagpole iscontrasted by the dynamic new two storey storefront at grade.

Bold and unapologetic, the new angular curtain wall and faceted metal panel storefront offers a cleardelineation from the historic residential façade above. It is accented by an indirect light slot andrecessed accent pin lights in the basalt stone tile floor. The storefront is deeply recessed to createemphasis as a public building on the streetscape. It is dynamically angled and sculpted, with a soffitof folded smooth metal panels that wraps down and under the storefront. A thin raw steel railingprevents skateboard damage, and continues the raw steel motif outside, as with the exposed centralcolumn.


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A massive custom wood pivot door of Brazilian cherry with custom designed pulls adds gravitas tothe gallery entrance and is an identifying element on the storefront and streetscape.

Rear walls of the top residential floor are clad in a simple corrugated metal siding with varied,patterned windows. The enthusiasm of the tradespeople working on the project is evident in thewhimsical cross and ‘95’ inlaid surreptitiously in the rear brick wall as part of the masonry repairwork.

The sensitive preservation and integration of heritage features and the robust modern insertionshave helped this adaptive reuse transform this building into a potentially powerful catalyst for furtherneighbourhood renewal, and have created a new hub for Hamilton’s growing arts community.

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