Central Nova Scotia Civic Centre

Town of Truro

Truro, Nova Scotia

The town of Truro, Nova Scotia and surrounding area sought to build a venue to house two Maritime passions, musical performance and hockey. Through discussion, research and collaboration we helped establish a viable venue size for the arena. These discussions also helped establish the program sizes of the competitive pool, rock climbing area, health unit offices and multi-purpose spaces. 

The sloping terrain on a shallow site required the major programmatic elements to be arranged in a linear fashion along a glazed entrance lobby. This lobby has access from parking located at both sides of the building. Glass walls separate the pool, lobby and arena and maintain transparency and views though the entire 170-metre-long structure. The result allows the building to reveal the activities within to motorists entering the town on the surrounding highway creating a sense of anticipation of the game, tournament or performance.