Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage

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GH3 Architects [architect.]

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext June 23, 2022.Description: 600 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: Edmonton’s Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage (KATG) is a municipal bus maintenance and storage facility designed to set new standards for an often-overlooked building type. Reconciling demanding technical requirements with simple and rigorous architecture, KATG elevates a conventionally utilitarian building and honors its important role within a growing, equitable, sustainable, and resilient contemporary city. Functional efficiency and high sustainability are matched by formal refinement, historic preservation, and public art, enriching both the lives of the people who work there and the wider community it serves.

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Efficiency (104) ,
Traffic (23) ,
Sustainability (411) ,
Public Transport (20) ,
Project (1170) ,
Mobility (155) ,
Materials (125) ,
Mass Transportation (22) ,
Lighting design (40) ,
Transportation (75)

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Edmonton’s Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage (KATG) is a municipal bus maintenance and storage facility designed to set new standards for an often-overlooked building type. Reconciling demanding technical requirements with simple and rigorous architecture, KATG elevates a conventionally utilitarian building and honors its important role within a growing, equitable, sustainable, and resilient contemporary city. Functional efficiency and high sustainability are matched by formal refinement, historic preservation, and public art, enriching both the lives of the people who work there and the wider community it serves.

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