“Langford offered the museum land and municipal staff support in the effort to provide the museum with a permanent home. Langford’s innovative and bold approach to this development is greatly appreciated,” said museum president Jamie Webb in a statement. “The museum believes in Langford’s bold vision to develop a cultural complex that includes a performing arts centre and strongly supports them in this initiative.”
The museum has been leasing a small, temporary space in downtown Victoria since it was forced to leave its home in Bastion Square in 2015. It currently operates from 3,000 square feet at 634 Humboldt St., meaning most of its 35,000-artifact collection is in climate-controlled storage supplied by the province.
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Using design for manufacture and assembly, Laing O’Rourke has delivered a major new hospital in Wales under budget and four months early – no wonder the government is looking to use it as a model for its hospital building programme. Thomas Lane reports
A major new hospital in Cwmbran, Wales, opens next week that could be the model for Boris Johnson’s aspirations to build 40 hospitals by 2030. Directly funded by the Welsh government, it is a happy story of a £350m hospital opening four months early, a first for a hospital of this size. It has also come in under budget.