Woodward Low Lift Pumping Station

Brown and Storey Architects Inc. were the lead architects and urban designers to revitalize and restore this iconic 1960’s hyperbolic paraboloid public works building into a gateway to the City of Hamilton which is highly visible from both the QEW highway and the public open space along the Lake Ontario shore.

Integrating the engineering programme with extensive interior and exterior architectural restoration / alterations to roofing, glazing and accessibility is combined with a transformation of the once inaccessible grounds of the pumping station into an extension of the public waterfront route, providing a new fountain, play area and reconnection to the City’s indigenous restoration of the original landscape.