The Southwest Yard Administration Building, including site services, is the first phase in the modernization of the City’s Southside storage facility for street maintenance equipment and supplies. The new building has 7200 square feet of space to house new locker and lunchroom facilities for 100 workers as well as new offices for senior yard personnel.

The building features secure access for staff while visitors are welcomed into a central hall lit by clerestory windows and shielded by an open-beamed curved roof. The building is primarily clad in brick and pays homage to the facility it now replaces. Metal cladding in two different colours is used elsewhere on the building’s façade.

The bold form of the roof and the snowplow-shaped lunchroom gives the building a distinctive presence on Gateway Boulevard.