Manitoba pavillion wins Vancouver Olympic award
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WINNIPEG — The Olympics have yet to begin, but Manitoba has already won a medal.
The province’s pavilion, CentrePlace Manitoba, has been singled out as a Sustainability Star by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Manitoba companies created a prefabricated sustainable building featuring Manitoba products and technology with the goal of being a carbon-neutral facility. The 2,560-square-foot structure, including exhibits, is budgeted to cost the province $2.3 million.
Designed by Manitoba’s Cibinel Architects, the pavilion features a recyclable translucent outer wall, and floor and ceiling woodwork from reclaimed Manitoba elm, remanufactured from diseased trees that would have otherwise been destroyed or gone to the landfill.
CentrePlace Manitoba is located at LiveCity Vancouver, downtown at the corner of Georgia and Beatty streets near the Government of Canada and the Four Host First Nations pavilions. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has partnered with the provincial government and has an interactive feature exhibit.
The Vancouver Olympic games run from Feb. 12-28.