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Museum of Vancouver CEO Nancy Noble believes her museum needs more space and to be in a more central location|Dominic SchaeferBy Glen KorstromTue May 7, 2013 12:01am PSTPotential future tenants vying for space at the current Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) site at Robson Square are launching bids for public support.The City of Vancouver will undoubtedly hold a lengthy public consultation process before allowing the Museum of Vancouver (MOV),[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]discount moncler jackets[/url], University of British Columbia (UBC), an Asian art gallery, a First Nations art gallery or any other potential tenants to move into the 125,000-square-foot, 107-year-old former courthouse, which was last renovated in 1983 and is also known as the Rattenbury Building.Similarly, a proposal to build a 1,950-seat concert hall concert hall under the art gallery site's front lawn will get plenty of council scrutiny and public consultation before its advocates get the go-ahead to try to raise the estimated $200 million necessary to make that dream a reality. Principals at Bing Thom Architects (BTA), directors at the Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society and others who support the concert hall concept tended to be against council giving VAG the go-ahead to move to Larwill Park,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler outlet[/url],[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]discount moncler jackets[/url], which is bounded by West Georgia,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler on sale[/url], Cambie, Beatty and Dunsmuir streets. That was because they fear that VAG's departure will create a void in the centre of downtown.Others, such as Michael Geller and Associates principal Michael Geller and Michael Green Architect principal Michael Green,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler down jackets[/url], believe that the concert hall's cost is too high to make it viable but that there are plenty of other tenants suitable for the Rattenbury Building.Indeed, plenty of groups have already expressed an interest in snagging a toehold in what many believe to be the centre of the city."We've gone through a process of change over the past few years and we have a new vision and a new mission that really speaks to being in the heart of the city," MOV CEO Nancy Noble told Business in Vancouver."It's very difficult to access our current site. There's no public transit to the door of the museum."MOV suffers from being under the radar because it operates in 85,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler down jackets[/url],000 square feet of space alongside the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in an iconic white building,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler outlet[/url], Noble said.Longtime Vancouverites regularly refer to the Kitsilano site as the Planetarium, and Noble believes that it would be both difficult and expensive to change that branding."The most important thing is that the art gallery site remains a public building with a Vancouver story to it," said Green. "My concern with UBC or Simon Fraser University [SFU] or some other academic program going in there is that,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler sale[/url],[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler sale[/url], although they would share the space, it would not be universally accessible to Vancouverites."Pascal Spothelfer, who is UBC's vice-president of communications and community partnership, knows that the public has those concerns about his institution being able to expand its presence at Robson Square."It won't be classrooms," he stressed. "As a university, we are well positioned to contribute with filling that space with life. We could create a centre for dialogue or have space for public speakers."Concert hall proponents stress that their proposal would liven the site in the evenings and that it would work best if they share the space with UBC, MOV or another organization that is busiest during the day."Unlike at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler on sale[/url], where the concourse is blocked off when it is not in use, our idea for the concert hall is to have a lobby in the art gallery building that can be accessed," said BTA principal Michael Heeney. "There would be restaurants, bars and stores that are open and people could visit when the concert hall is not in use."Tags: Bing Thom, Michael Geller, Pascal Spothelfer, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, First Nations
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