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Churchill Meadows Community Centre (City of Mississauga, 1s, MJMA)

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https://www.insauga.com/a-brand-new-community-centre-is-coming-to-mississauga
by Ashley Newport on November 10, 2017

People who enjoy community centres and all they offer the neighbourhoods they reside in might be very happy to know that another centre is about to break ground in Mississauga.

According to the City of Mississauga, Ward 10 Councillor Sue McFadden is quite excited to get the digging started on the city's newest community centre on Tuesday, Nov. 14.

"I am so thrilled that we are getting to this stage of the project," said McFadden. "It's been a long process with a lot of complex planning issues, but construction is about to begin and that marks a major milestone toward having a much-needed recreation facility here to serve the residents of Ward 10 and beyond."

Situated on 55-acres of parkland on the western edge of Mississauga at 5320 Ninth Line, the soon-to-be-built Community Centre and Sport Park (also referred to as Future Community Park 459) will boast 65,000 square feet of space.

The city says the community centre will feature a triple-gymnasium, six-lane pool with therapy tank, a teaching kitchen and various other meeting rooms and gathering spaces.

The exterior includes two full-size, lit artificial turf soccer fields - one with a seasonal dome, walking trails, a playground, splash pad, skate park and basketball court.

The city says some of these amenities may be built in phase 2 of construction along with a lit cricket pitch, multi-use field and tennis courts.

"I've seen the preliminary designs of the building and this community centre is going to be spectacular," said McFadden. "The architecture and design has really captured the environment, history and cultural flavour of the area in a beautiful way."

The groundbreaking ceremony will take place on Nov. 14 in the northern part of the park near Ninth Line at 1:00 p.m.

Parking is available on Tacc Drive, Janice Drive, Arvona Place, all east of Ninth Line.
 
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This single-storey MJMA design (with Blackwell on engineering) won a Canadian Architect Award of Merit in 2019. Currently on track for a Fall 2020 opening.

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The source for all of these images is this Canadian Architect article.

This is another project for which if someone was to be in the area, we'd love photography!

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Cute building, sure, but it's absolutely looney tunes that cities across Ontario are still pursuing this kind of thing in 2020. A large object building, plunked down in sea of parking (and 'parkland'), that everyone will drive to is retrograde bullshit, to say the least.
 
It looks like it'll have a lot of sophisticated and distinguishing design details, but the facade also looks like it lacks focal points and is somewhat anonymous. Despite being a community centre, it doesn't look like it'll have much of a relationship with the street. I get similar impressions from the York Recreation Centre at Black Creek and Eglinton in Toronto. There are many interesting contemporary design details, yet it looks anonymous and somehow distant. It doesn't really provide for any street life, despite being a community centre.
 
There is zero street life on Ninth Line, and one community centre that will draw its users from a vast suburban area where everyone drives everywhere already, wouldn't change much whether it was oriented to the street or not: two local streets have outlets to Ninth Line near the point where it's close to Ninth Line. Had they aligned it with Ninth Line, there might have been a third, but big deal, maybe 3% of its users would have arrived on foot instead of 2%? Near the point where the building meets Ninth Line, there is a bike trail that can be extended across the road to the community centre, the Erin Mills bike trail system being rather extensive, so that's good.

As it is, I'm thinking that this building may be the one thing in Mississauga that's aligned north-south, and that alignment must factor into the design, calculated into passive heating and cooling methods for it.

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There is zero street life on Ninth Line, and one community centre that will draw its users from a vast suburban area where everyone drives everywhere already, wouldn't change much whether it was oriented to the street or not: two local streets have outlets to Ninth Line near the point where it's close to Ninth Line. Had they aligned it with Ninth Line, there might have been a third, but big deal, maybe 3% of its users would have arrived on foot instead of 2%? Near the point where the building meets Ninth Line, there is a bike trail that can be extended across the road to the community centre, the Erin Mills bike trail system being rather extensive, so that's good.

As it is, I'm thinking that this building may be the one thing in Mississauga that's aligned north-south, and that alignment must factor into the design, calculated into passive heating and cooling methods for it.

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Expect that to change in the coming years: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/mississauga-ninth-line-lands-redevelopment.28752/
A lot of new development in the works.
 
Cute building, sure, but it's absolutely looney tunes that cities across Ontario are still pursuing this kind of thing in 2020. A large object building, plunked down in sea of parking (and 'parkland'), that everyone will drive to is retrograde bullshit, to say the least.

Just because something urban hipsters hate something doesn't make it retrograde.
 

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