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The Aaniin Community Centre

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The Aaniin Community Centre is a public service building in Markham, Ontario, Canada. The 3 story centre totals around 122,000 sq.ft. and sits on about 13 acres of land. It contains a double gym, teaching kitchen, library, aquatics center, performance space, food concessions and support spaces. On the property there are 3 large parking lots as well as basketball courts and seating spaces.The Aaniin Community Centre was design by Perkins + Will in collaboration with Fleisher Ridout Partnership. The name of the community centre was in response to Canadas 150th anniversary to honor the indigenous peoples whose land the center uses (Aaniin means a greeting in Ojibway). The identity of the structure is a representation of the ideals of the calls to action stated in the Truth and Reconciliation papers.The open concept layout and immense pine and spruce roof is nod to its representation of inclusion and community. The suburban life of the heterogenous population is modeled through the pathways and dynamic public realm that the centre creates. Its materiality is a direct reflection of the people that live in the area, red hues being a prominent factor representing a colour significant to a lot of Asian cultures.

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The Aaniin Community Centre
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14th Avenue 5665
L3S 3K5 Markham
Ontario, Canada
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Markham () is a city in the York Region of Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Downtown Toronto. In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and 16th largest in Canada.The city gained its name from the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe (in office 1791–1796), who named the area after his friend, William Markham, the Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807. Indigenous people lived in the area of present-day Markham for thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the area. The first European settlement in Markham occurred when William Berczy, a German artist and developer, led a group of approximately sixty-four German families to North America. While they planned to settle in New York, disputes over finances and land tenure led Berczy to negotiate with Simcoe for 26,000 ha (64,000 acres) in what would later become Markham Township in 1794. Since the 1970s, Markham rapidly shifted from being an agricultural community to an industrialized municipality due to urban sprawl from neighbouring Toronto. Markham changed its status from town to city on July 1, 2012.As of 2013, tertiary industry mainly drives Markham. As of 2010, "business services" employed the largest proportion of workers in Markham – nearly 22% of its labour force. The city also has over 1,000 technology and life-sciences companies, with IBM as the city's largest employer. Several multinational companies have their Canadian headquarters in Markham, including: Honda Canada, Hyundai, Advanced Micro Devices,Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, Avaya, IBM, Motorola, Oracle, Toshiba, Toyota Financial Services, Huawei, Honeywell, General Electric and Scholastic Canada.