Memorial Parkade

Meiklejohn Architects designed the Memorial Parkade for the City of Kelowna to provide downtown parking for the downtown core. The facility provides 560 parking stalls to accommodate the public, as well as staff from the adjacent Interior Health building and the Okanagan Centre for Innovation on Ellis Street. The seven-storey structure is a mixed-use development, featuring two dedicated floors of office space for the City of Kelowna’s 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.