Clareview Community Recreation Centre

As a key part of the City of Edmonton’s Recreation Facility Master Plan, the project challenges existing typologies and preconceptions of community facilities in the city. It emerges from both community building and urban/environmental perspectives. The existing facility had almost no civic presence and was only accessible by car through a back parking lot, even though transit was nearby. It failed to define and animate a vital public realm. 

The goal for a community facility integrated into the park and the neighborhood was to use the new program elements, connecting the neighborhood to the LRT station and treating the existing soccer fields and arena as positive exterior spaces to shape the new building. The connections between transit and neighborhood articulate the complex program. The main façade reveals the interior activities of the building, invites passers-by, and animates exterior spaces with the energy from within.

The project integrates a branch library, recreation centre, community facilities, childcare centre and a high school completion centre. The first of its kind in Edmonton, this school helps adults and older teens complete their education outside of the mainstream high school curriculum. The recreation centre incorporates competition, diving and leisure pools and fitness facilities around the existing arena. The library combines the latest library technology and a contemporary service model. The spatial design focuses on creating views to the project site as well as to the numerous other activities occurring in the centre.

Project Information

Owner: City of Edmonton

Architect: Teeple Architects

Project Location: 3804 - 139 Avenue