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What does leadership look like?
The renovated Charlottetown Confederation Centre of the Arts will be a good place to start
A $65-million renovation at Charlottetown’s Confederation Centre of the Arts is going to include the new Canadian Leadership Institute. That led to an important question for the architect who won the design contract: What does a leadership institute look like?
You can try a simple answer. It’s going to need offices for its staff, and it’s going to need spaces where people can gather and present their ideas to each other. In the 21st century, it’s also going to need ways to connect people digitally.
But that doesn’t really answer the question. That’s what it needs, at the most basic level, but says nothing about what it looks like.
For Alec Brown of the Halifax architecture firm Abbott Brown, the answer to that question is rooted in what the Confederation Centre was—and what Confederation Centre to be now.
“[It’s] mostly stone and concrete, and no evident windows or entrances and no direct access, but a kind of unfortunate split-level relationship with the street,” said Brown. “You’re not quite sure whether you should be there. It’s classic.”
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