The Canadian Museum of History is honouring famed architect, Douglas Cardinal, by naming an event and meeting room after him.
This year marks not only the 25th anniversary of the facility’s two adjoining buildings, but also the 80th birthday of the facility’s designer.
The museum houses artifact vaults and office space in one pavilion, while the public area is in the second. The Douglas J. Cardinal Salon is near the Gatineau, Que. museum’s centrepiece, the Grand Hall.
“The museum will be symbolic in form,” Cardinal wrote in his original design statement before the museum opened in 1989. “It will speak of the emergence of this continent, its forms sculpted by the winds, the rivers, the glaciers.”
Cardinal has been honoured by numerous Canadian and American universities and heads up his Ottawa-based firm, Douglas Cardinal Architect Inc.
