Entertainment

Calgary Centennial Planetarium

Project Details

Calgary Centennial Planetarium


Location

Calgary, AB, Canada

Owner/Client

The City of Calgary

Completion

2019

Role

Electrical Engineering Consulting Services & Specialty Lighting Design

Awards
  • 2020 MASI Design Awards - Gold Recipient - Institutional & Health Care
  • 2019 AN Best of Design Awards - Honorable Mention, Civic
  • 2021 Heritage Calgary Awards - Resource Conservation, Non-Residential

Originally constructed in 1967 to celebrate Canada's 100th anniversary, the Calgary Centennial Planetarium remains a excellent example of brutalist architecture now revitalized as a contemporary arts gallery.

The lighting design strives to judiciously highlight the original exterior heritage structure while bringing focus to the new entry plaza as a public gathering space. Interior lighting provides clean, modern, and flexible lighting solutions to provide the art gallery a solid infrastructural base from which to work. Specialty lighting is provided in areas with significant architectural features such as the dome theatre’s 3D illumination effect through the offset scrim and within the honeycombed ceiling lower gallery to providing the windowless space with a sensation of daylight.

Copyright © SMP Engineering. All rights reserved. Please read our terms of use and privacy policy. Site by Ci2 Group