Inside Calgary’s Library Built Around a Working Train Line
The Cedar Threshold
The entrance replaces a hard boundary with a generous timber-lined arch. Its warm surface makes a clear material contrast with the pale geometric facade overhead, turning the approach into an experience of shelter before visitors reach the doors. Western red cedar from British Columbia gives this large public gesture a tactile quality. Notice how the curve appears to draw the ground upward into the building: the threshold is not simply an opening punched through a wall, but a space in its own right.
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