This community recreation centre located in the heart of Richmond’s urban Minoru Park and hosts a culturally diverse and active user group. The building is an upgrade and replacement of an existing lawn bowling clubhouse and in addition provides multi-purpose event and recreational space for the City of Richmond. The building design emphasizes flexibility and connectivity across the site. The long rectangular form features numerous operable accordion glass walls that can be opened for uninterrupted flow through the building onto the bowling greens on either side or closed to create multiple mixed-use rooms. The LEED Gold target design utilizes the building’s proximity to Minoru Lake for hydrothermal energy and as a means of collecting stormwater runoff. The building’s structural system implements innovation wood CLT panels to reduce construction time and material waste and sequester carbon.