Hughes Condon Marler Architects has been tasked by the City of Richmond to design and engineer the planned $80 million Minoru Aquatic Centre and Older Adults Centre as well as the new $22 million No. 1 Fire Hall on Gilbert Road.
In recent years HCMA designed the architectural award-winning Steveston Fire Hall as well as the Hamilton Community Centre.
The HCMA contract is worth $6.4 million.
According to a City of Richmond news release construction of the new buildings will be completed in the fall of 2017. Stuart Olson Dominion will serve as the city's construction manager for all three projects.
The aquatic facility will be about 68,000 square feet while the senior centre will be 33,000 square feet.
Because all three facilities will essentially built next to one another (the new pool and senior centre are moving west to where the existing Minoru 2 soccer field is located) it is believed efficiencies will be gained by having as single firm for construction.
The city also granted DGBK Architects a $940,000 contract to design the new $20.7 million No. 3 Fire Hall in north Richmond, which should also be completed in 2017. The fire hall will also house an ambulance station, the first of its kind in a major B.C. city, according to the City of Richmond. Stuart Olson Dominion will also construct this facility.
HCMA has worked on various Metro Vancouver pools, including Sungod, Killarney and Hillcrest in Vancouver. To take a look at some of the pools HCMA has designed, click here
