Site Tour – Polygon Gallery

On Tuesday June 27th, 2017 we will tour the new Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver. The Presentation House Gallery is an internationally-renowned photography art gallery that has partnered with the City of North Vancouver to develop a distinctive and community-focused space at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue on the waterfront. The new Polygon Gallery will promote visual culture of the past and present, locally, nationally, to internationally.

The Polygon Gallery is the largest non-profit photography and media art gallery in Canada and also provides a venue for events and art education programs.

Designed by Paktkau Architects, the building is both simple and bold. The largely closed mass of the upper level is animated by virtue of the saw-tooth roof profile of the north-facing clerestory glazing and a cladding which sparkles and shimmers under changing light conditions. The upper volume is cantilevered assertively beyond the fully glazed plaza level below.

The grand opening of the Polygon Gallery is in November 2017 – we are privileged to receive a sneak peak of the space courtesy of Turnbull Construction Project Managers, Paktkau Architects and The Haebler Group!

Agenda:

5.30pm – 6pm – Registration and site orientation at the plaza directly beside the site

6pm-7pm – Site tour

7pm-8.30pm – Dinner, Tap and Barrel Shipyards, 8 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, V7L 0B2

Please note: Full personal protective equipment, including CSA approved safety boots, hard hat, high visibility vest and safety glasses are required in order to attend the tour. Anyone not in possession of these items will not be permitted to walk the site.

Photographs are not permitted during the site tour at the request of the tour facilitators. We ask that you respect our hosts and refrain from taking photographs during the tour.

Registration will close on Friday, 23rd June at 2pm unless the event is already sold out!