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Highlights of the New Design

The New Weekday Entrance
The gracious light-filled entrance is more spacious to allow better flow from the narthex to the administration area. The bold, modern entrance overlooks the lawns and street, and includes a vestibule, stairway and accessible elevator.

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Stained Glass Window Renovation
We are very excited about the beautiful reconstruction of the triptych at the front of the Eglinton Lounge and the large window above the weekday entrance depicting Jesus and the Children. Stained glass artists Gordon Wright and David Burns reconstructed the windows using a combination of new glass and old glass from former windows at the Eglinton United Church building.

Learn more about this beautiful renovation (this links takes you to the Wright and Burns site).

The Administration Area Redesign
All staff offices are located on one floor and the layout of the front desk/office area has been improved. Kitchen facilities have been consolidated into one large kitchen. A servery opening from the kitchen onto the narthex adds excellent convenience for coffee hour as well as large meetings and gatherings. Washrooms have been centralized near the narthex.

The former chapel has become a multi-use chapel/lounge space with the inclusion of a small prayer room at the north end.

Sanctuary design
Everything about the new design says inviting and flexible. A new "festival" entrance stair­case from outside opens into the spacious light-filled narthex where movable glass walls allow us to be drawn into the sanctuary.

Inside, flexible seating and chancel and a movable organ console support a variety of configurations depending on the type of worship or event. Improvements in lighting and sound ensure that all can see and hear well.
Our sanctuary is a warm, inviting and exciting place to worship.

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Infrastructure maintenance and upgrades  
 These upgrades include:
• Mechanical, electrical and heating upgrades
• Fire and life safety up­grades (such as fire separation between floors and fire alarm  upgrades)
• Window maintenance 

 Accessibility improvements 
 ESG has been improved to include:
• An accessible entrance lobby
• A main elevator and a platform lift
• Drop-off areas and a sloping exterior walkway
• Accessible washrooms

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Building enhancements   
These changes are designed to create a more welcoming environment for worship, work and meeting one another.
• Revisions to the sanctuary and chancel to conform to more current liturgical practice
• Improved ministerial, administrative and volunteer office space
• Renovations to the parlour and chapel areas
• Upgrades to meeting rooms
• Improvements to church school and infant care facilities

Sound and lighting   
• Upgrades to sanctuary sound and lighting as well as organ relocation

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Renovation Implementation Committee

Chair:                                       Douglas McWhirter
Secretary:                                Laurie Denham  
Vice-Chair Design Mgmt:         Carolyn Woodland
Design Mgmt:                           Lind Nyman
                                                 Andre Le Roux
Chief Financial Officer:            Louise Hayes
Legal/Contracts:                       Yvonne Penning
Accommodations:                    Marg and Bob Anglin
Space Use Liaison:                  Amy Downs
Communications:                     Cathy Macdonald

Architects

Architects for the renovation were Black and Moffat Architects Inc of Toronto, Ontario.

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