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rdaner said:
Saw a post on IG just now about exhibits being set up at Harbourfront Centre and Sherway (new designs for tall buildings?!) Will look but coming soon.
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Ontario Science Centre moving to temporary locations at Harbourfront, Sherway Gardens
The Sherway location will open in November and Harbourfront in December.
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Let's take the OSC out of one of the most spectacular buildings in Toronto and stick it in a mall and a glorified warehouse. - Doug Ford.

I know it's just temporary but I wish they could have have kept it all together and put it at least somewhere semi interesting.
 
I guess repairs are tied into the province's land lease deal with the city having to keep the OSC in good condition? Which makes this more apparent that the roof issue was ultimately an excuse to close down the centre (which I think is ultimately tied to the Ontario Place redevelopment plans).

I think the OSC saga is done for now, but there is still an opportunity if the city were to take control over the buildings to open a new institution inside of them.

Workers say goodbye to an almost-empty Ontario Science Centre as repairs get underway​

By Liam Casey The Canadian Press
Posted November 14, 2024 6:14 am
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He pointed to ongoing repair work as the source of that hope. There is scaffolding in the great hall and the auditorium that allows access to the roof, where engineers had identified panels in danger of collapsing.

The heating in Building B, which housed many exhibits, theatres and the great hall, has been fixed.

“We do appreciate that the building is being repaired, but, of course, everybody wonders, what for? What is it going to be?” Fischer said.

“So, I haven’t given up hope that we can return.”
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The province is looking for an interim location for the science centre with its permanent new space set to open in 2028 at the earliest.

The production team, which makes exhibits for science centres around the world, does not have a new home yet. The shop’s machines and production materials are stored away in Huntsville, Ont., a three-hour drive north of Toronto, Fischer said.

“That work is on hold because we don’t have a location,” he said.

Other items are stored in facilities in Guelph, Ont., northern Toronto and at Sherway Gardens, a mall in western Toronto where a science centre pop-up location just opened. There is also a pop-up coming to Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto.
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As things wound down this October, Kennedy helped dismantle the radio equipment and send it off to storage.

“There are no plans in the future to install a new amateur radio station at a new Ontario Science Centre,” he said.

He listed off more of the items that are gone now, sent away to places across the province.

The Toronto Bee Collective came and took the dozen or so bee hives that are now set up at Black Creek Pioneer Village, he said.

Gone too are the iconic Canadarm and the fin whale skeleton, which he said were especially difficult to take down.
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But Kennedy said staff left a few big-ticket items behind, and he isn’t sure why. There’s a ship’s propeller, and the cross-section of a massive Sitka spruce tree trunk.

“There’s a whole crapload of stuff that’s still left,” he said.
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globalnews.ca

Workers say goodbye to an almost-empty Ontario Science Centre as repairs get underway | Globalnews.ca

As the sun shone on an unusually warm day at the end of October, Emma Meadley Dunphy took one final, emotional stroll through the Ontario Science Centre.
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From Global News today
Ford government spent more than a week planning ‘end-of-day’ science centre closure
The science centre was fenced off from the public and closed just hours after an announcement on Friday, June 21. The rush, the government said at the time, was due to the urgent safety issues plaguing the building.

Internal emails obtained through freedom of information laws, however, reveal that the province began working on the plan to close the structure and sell its key message to the public at least 10 days before the announcement was made.

A trove of emails between government communication staff and senior Infrastructure Ontario officials show that a news release announcing the sudden closure was being prepared as early as June 11, while a plan to fence off the building was greenlit on June 17.
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jje1000 said:
I guess repairs are tied into the province's land lease deal with the city having to keep the OSC in good condition? Which makes this more apparent that the roof issue was ultimately an excuse to close down the centre (which I think is ultimately tied to the Ontario Place redevelopment plans).

I think the OSC saga is done for now, but there is still an opportunity if the city were to take control over the buildings to open a new institution inside of them.






globalnews.ca

Workers say goodbye to an almost-empty Ontario Science Centre as repairs get underway | Globalnews.ca

As the sun shone on an unusually warm day at the end of October, Emma Meadley Dunphy took one final, emotional stroll through the Ontario Science Centre.
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I read this article last week and initially though the same..

However, I challenge the suggestion that they are doing full-on repairs. Just because there is presence of scaffolding, and they fixed a heating system does not imply they are dumping money into this. While it may be the case, the evidence is lacking...
 
I can't believe there are no shots anywhere of the inside as everything gets dismantled. Nothing has leaked out on X. Haven't seen anything anywhere.

I'm really, really, really hoping that another institution takes it over and sets up an auxiliary campus there. Like maybe a U of T or a York or George Brown or something. Or maybe some other museum or something.

Don't care too much about the big warehouse buildings at the bottom. but the pods at the top and the big main buildings just can't get destroyed it would be totally insane.

Speaking of, I'm not going to lie, if the building ever do get demolished I am 100% hoping the demolition fences one night and stealing some of the rubble like people grabbed pieces of the Berlin wall.
 
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Weird they had to paper over all the windows.

Haven't seen ANY shots inside since they closed it down. Nothing.

Well, this is as close as I could get with the drone.

Miss this place so much.

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Weird they had to paper over all the windows.

Haven't seen ANY shots inside since they closed it down. Nothing.

Well, this is as close as I could get with the drone.

Miss this place so much.

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Oh well, I mean look at all those gaping holes in the roof. Those obvious areas where water pooled and caused collapse, the bare wooden rafters exposed to the elements, the squirrels nesting. Just an absolute wreck.
 
I mean, as you can see, there is no snow. Which is what the concern was, snow loads on the roof.
 
Ford = Idiot for closing whole place forever based on 2 - 6% of the roofs that actually weren't safe under potential large snow loads

40 Years of Other Provincial Governments = Not doing nearly enough to maintain and upkeep this incredible building and allowing it to deteriorate to the point it needs $400M of repairs
 
While the latter is unfortunate, it has no real equivalency with the former.
 
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