Currie Center: Difference between revisions

Building Name: Richard J. Currie Center

Richard J. Currie Center, 2011. Photo credit: Joy Cummings, University of New Brunswick.

Other Names: Currie Center

Civic Address: 15 Peter Kelly Dr.

Sod Turning: 26 June 2008 by Allison McCain and Richard Currie

Cornerstone Laying: June 2008

Opened for Use: 18 May 2011

Official Opening: 7 October 2011

Architect: Bregman + Hamann Architects, Sasaki Associates, ADI

Named for: Dr. Richard J. Currie, UNB Chancellor, 2003 - present, who donated $21 million to the construction of the building.

Renovations/changes/additions: An unveiling of the re-created 1948 war memorial mural originally painted by renowned Canadian artist Fred Ross in the performance court of the Center took place 27 June 2011. The new mural in the Currie Center was painted by Amy Ash, Sara Griffin and Fred Willar under the direction of Fred Ross.

Notes: The Currie Center is a 12,927 square metre, five storey building that houses state-of-the-art performance and testing equipment, including a human performance lab, a 161-metre indoor track, and a sport medicine clinic. It features a convertible Performance Hall and two full-size gyms, as well as classrooms for the faculty of Kinesiology and Sport Science. The Currie Center is home to Campus Recreation and UNB's Varsity Reds volleyball and basketball teams. The building and parking lot sits on what used to be known as Buchanan Field, which was used for football games and later on as a practise field for university teams.

Source(s):

• Leroux, John. Building A University: The Architecture of UNB. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2010.
• UA Case 123; Section 3, Box 1; Currie Center.

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