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təməsewt̓xw Aquatic and Community Centre in New Westminster, BC

Like much of North America, New Westminster, BC, has a long and problematic colonial history. This dates all the way back to the city’s founding in 1859, when settlers displaced Chief Tsimilano, an Indigenous Elder who lived in the area’s Glenbrook Ravine (known as Stautlo by local First Nations people). In the 1960s, a portion of this lush landscape was then backfilled, making way for a community centre and an aquatic facility. Six decades later, with both buildings beyond repair, the city tapped Vancouver-based firm hcma architecture + design for a rebuild. To the design team, the project represented a chance to right past wrongs. “The erasure of the ravine was almost a metaphor for the erasure of Indigenous peoples, and we saw that...

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