page_title: Remai Modern
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Remai Modern / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Under the Remai Modern Overhang
context_page_description: The Remai Modern, is a public art museum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The art museum is situated along the west bank of the South Saskatchewan River, at the River Landing development in Saskatoon's Central Business District. The museum's 11,582 square metres building was designed by Bruce Kuwabara of KPMB Architects in association with Architecture49.
  Plans to create a new art museum in Saskatoon emerged after plans to move the Mendel Art Gallery were abandoned in 2009. The new art museum was formally incorporated on 9 July 2009 as the Art Gallery of Saskatchewan. In 2011, the museum was rebranded as the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, after Ellen Remai donated funds for the construction, and maintenance of the new art museum. Construction for the art museum began in June 2013. Prior to the building's completion, the institution was rebranded as Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan in 2014, and again in 2016 as Remai Modern. Construction for the building was completed in 2017, and the museum was formally opened to the public in October 2017.
  The museum's permanent collection features over 8,000 works from Canadian and international artists.
context_section_description: The museum property is situated in River Landing, a development area of the Saskatoon's Central Business District, and is positioned in an area that overlooks a bend in the South Saskatchewan River. The design for the museum building was by Bruce Kuwabara of KPMB Architects, in association with architectural firm Architecture49. EllisDon was contracted to construct the museum building.
  The building's design is influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style. The design of the building's exterior was based on region's open prairie landscape, and the barns, field sheds, and silos that occupy that space.  The exterior features cantilevered stacks that extend towards the South Saskatchewan River; and its glass and copper mesh exterior. The exterior steel mesh is a solar shading device and provides a shadowing effect on the building as the sun arcs through the sky. The design of the copper patina was inspired by the roof of the Delta Bessborough, a hotel located nearby along the South Saskatchewan River. The building takes up approximately 11,582 square metres (124,670 sq ft) of space, and is made up of approximately four floors, and an underground parkade. The glass walls on the ground floor are intended to provide visitors with a sense of "transparency between the interior and the outdoors".
  The "openness" of the prairie landscape were also reflected in the interior design of the building, with the ceiling of the main atrium extending to the fourth level of the building, and its walls being made of glass and overlooking the South Saskatchewan River. The main atrium also features a communal fireplace. The building includes eleven galleries dedicated to exhibiting artworks. The building also includes a in-house cafe, community atrium, a restaurant, a retail store, two learning studios, a 150-seat theatre, rental spaces, a rooftop patio, and a lounge.
caption: Underneath the cantilevered stacks of the museum building
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