Memorial Parkade

Memorial Parkade was designed for the City of Kelowna to provide downtown public parking and staff parking for the new Interior Health building and Innovation Centre on Ellis St. The 7-storey building provides 560 parking stalls and features 2 floors of offices utilized by the City of Kelowna for their Bylaw and Human Resources Departments.

The building is a mix of precast concrete floors, columns, and exterior cladding and cast in place central shear walls. The building is wrapped in an expanded aluminum mesh that provided shading, security, and a cost-efficient low maintenance cladding that still provided the air flow required for an open-air parkade. The aluminum was also utilized as a growing medium for climbing vines to blend with the adjacent public gardens and offset some of the carbon emissions from the cars within the parkade.

Project Data

Status: Completed, 2017
Floor Area: 180,000 sf
Owner: City of Kelowna
Staff: Jim Meiklejohn – Principal
Collin Crabbe – Project Design
Shirley Ng – Production + Permitting