Polygon画廊是Presentation House画廊的重生，40多年来，它一直是北温哥华一个充满激情的独立摄影和媒体机构。与其说是现场反应，不如说是现场制造者，该建筑站在城市滨水区重建的前沿，在那里，基础设施被重新想象，文化超越了工业化的过去。
The Polygon Gallery is the rebirth of the Presentation House Gallery, which has been a passionately independent photography and media institution in North Vancouver for more than forty years. More site-maker than site response, the building stands at the front of urban waterfront renewal where infrastructure is reimagined and culture outgrows an industrial past.
建筑物的主体从地面抬起，为新的公共广场提供了开放的通道，同时也为伯拉德湾对面的温哥华天际线提供了广阔的视野。其标志性的锯齿形轮廓在膨胀的铝板下包覆着多层镜面不锈钢。这两种材料之间的相互作用给这个单一的建筑带来了短暂的深度，随着季节性的阳光和夜晚的气氛而变化。
The main mass of the building is lifted from the ground plane to provide open access to both a new public plaza and a wide view of the Vancouver skyline across Burrard Inlet. Its iconic saw-toothed profile is clad in layers of mirrored stainless steel beneath expanded aluminum decking. The interplay between the two materials gives the singular mass an ephemeral depth that shifts with seasonal sunlight and evening atmosphere.
画廊总监Reid Shier要求画廊空间没有任何障碍，地板和墙壁可以切割，天花板可以在任何位置悬挂任何东西，可以在任何地方接入电源和媒体，照明可以自然或控制。因此，主展厅被设想为一个随时可以进行创作的工具，与其说是博物馆，不如说是一个工作室。建筑物的结构肌理实现了双重目的，即提升画廊和提供一个清晰的空间，从上面看完全是日光漫射的北方光线，或者是黑暗。一个钢檩条系统为照明、数据、媒体、悬挂作品和临时隔断提供了一个轨道。坚固且易于修补的橡木地板有一个连续的中央通道，用于通风、电气和数据通道，可以随时进入独立的作品和任何配置的临时隔断。
Gallery Director, Reid Shier requested gallery space free of obstacles, with floors and walls that can be cut into, ceilings from which anything could be hung in any position, access to power and media anywhere, lighting that can be natural or controlled. The main gallery is thus conceived as a ready instrument for creativity, more studio than a museum. The structural musculature of the building performs the dual purposes of lifting the gallery and providing a clear space, completely daylit from above with diffuse northern light, or darkened. A system of steel purlins provides a track for lighting, data, media, suspended works, and temporary partitions. The robust and easily patched oak flooring features a continuous central channel for ventilation, electrical, and data chases that give ready access to freestanding works and temporary partitions of any configuration.
上层还包括一个灵活的大型活动展厅，用于教育、推广和私人活动。它的整个南墙是一个可操作的玻璃全景，可以俯瞰Burrard Inlet和温哥华。除了全玻璃的入口和大厅之外，下层还支持小型零售空间，以帮助实现滨水区的多样化发展。这些精细的临街用途使该建筑成为城市滨水区日益增长的社会生活的吸引者，并与公共空间分享画廊的能量。被画廊激活的广场为北温哥华提供了一个新的文化节点，加强了一个与更大、更突出的城市相邻的小城市的本地身份感。
The upper level also contains a large flexible event gallery for education, outreach, and private functions. Its entire southern wall is an operable glazed panorama overlooking Burrard Inlet and Vancouver. In addition to the fully glazed entrance and lobby, the lower level supports small retail spaces, to help diversify waterfront development. These fine-grained street-level uses to make the building an attractor for the growing social life on the city’s waterfront and share the energy of the Gallery with the public space. The plaza, so activated by the Gallery, provides a new cultural node for North Vancouver, reinforcing a sense of local identity for a small city that neighbors a larger and more prominent one.
Architects: Patkau Architects
Area: 2100 m²
Year: 2017
Photographs: James Dow
Main Contractor: The Haebler Group
Structural Engineering: Fast + Epp
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering: Intergral Group
Acoustical Consulting: Dan Lyzun & Associates Ltd
Architects:John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, Peter Suter, Mike Green, Jackie Ho, Marc Holland, Tom Schroeder, Haley Zhou
Code Consultants:LMDG
City:North Vancouver
Country:Canada