SEFC Community Bunker Unveiled

When we initially heard that Arthur Erickson would be helping out with the design of the SEFC community centre, we thought to ourselves, 'it's good that we have a West Coast architect handling the design.'

But then, a smarter inner voice said to us, 'oh crap - let's hope that he doesn't go overboard with the concrete and harsh angles like he usually does, and gives us another cold fortress like they've got up at SFU.'

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Unfortunately, it appears as though the second voice was the more prescient one, as the SEFC community centre certainly looks a lot more like a bunker than a warm, inviting place where local residents might gather. (Unless bombs are raining down on their heads).

In addition to the ground-floor restaurant and boating facilities, the 3-storey building will also be home to a 69-space daycare centre.

In this happy place, the children will be toilet trained at gunpoint, while there will be a military-style obstacle course set up on the second floor. The little tykes will get to take daily target practice in the third-floor shooting range.

And if one of them starts crying over spilled milk, then it's 25 push-ups and a week of peeling potatoes in the kitchen.

For more information, including additional design plans and elevations, click here.

Comments

[barcelona]

Personally I think it looks nice, not a fan of most of his work though.

[renante solivar]

i prefer the work being done by GBL at the olympic sites.

[Robert Inestroza]

Erickson has done his share for the city, there ARE other superb architects all over the world that might bring a ray of excitement to his otherwise dour solutions!