North Van seeks cultural revolution, Consultant recommends new homes for Presentation House’s three tenants
Three of the North Shore’s foremost cultural institutions should be moved into new, multi-million-dollar buildings over the next two decades, according to a year-long study commissioned by the City of North Vancouver.
The purpose of the study was to determine the best way to house the Presentation House Gallery, Presentation House Theatre and the North Vancouver Museum. The consultants, Proscenium Architecture and Lydia Martson-Blaauw and Associates, were also tasked with researching the best use of the current Presentation House site and ways to develop Lower Lonsdale into a “cultural neighbourhood.”
All three institutions are currently crammed into the elderly and quirky Presentation House complex. That building started life in 1902 as the city’s first schoolhouse and was later the city hall. But despite several generations of add-ons, the limitations of the structure are a major barrier for development and expansion of the arts in North Vancouver.
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