Everything Old Is New Again
Idea Exchange Old Post Office, Cambridge, Ontario
The Idea Exchange Old Post Office is a bookless library devoted entirely to makerspaces. Housed in a renovated building completed in 1885, the four-level facility features a theater, film and audio recording suites, a children’s discovery center with robot-building kits, and a 9,000-square-foot cantilevered pavilion that extends over the Grand River.
Project: Renovation and expansion
Architect: RDHA
Size: 19,000 square feet
Cost: $11.1 million Canadian
Photo: Tom Arban
Everything Old Is New Again
Idea Exchange Old Post Office, Cambridge, Ontario
The Idea Exchange Old Post Office is a bookless library devoted entirely to makerspaces. Housed in a renovated building completed in 1885, the four-level facility features a theater, film and audio recording suites, a children’s discovery center with robot-building kits, and a 9,000-square-foot cantilevered pavilion that extends over the Grand River.
Project: Renovation and expansion
Architect: RDHA
Size: 19,000 square feet
Cost: $11.1 million Canadian
Photo: Tom Arban