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Tecumseh Medical Centre - Passa Architects MARCH 2021 the shape of a boat with its structural frames exposed. According to Joseph, the result has become “one of the new venues of interest in a growing community with a new cultural and hospitality focus.” Another recently completed project is the renovation of a former police facility in Windsor into a Collision Reporting Centre for the Windsor Police Service. The existing facility was dated and was intended to be closed, but Passa Architects helped transform it into a modern multi-purpose facility that provides a “multitude of police related uses.” Even more recently, Joseph and his team completed the conceptual design of the Brights Grove Library and Art Gallery in Sarnia which is located in the lush Wildwood Park on Old Lakeshore Road on the shores of Lake Huron. Joseph says it involved bringing a very natural sustainable building, with daylight harvesting and a green roof, into a park setting by “weaving the structure through the large trees, maintaining all of them, and bringing them visually inside the building with a large curving glass wall.” The list of diverse projects goes on. Currently, for example, the firm is working with Tessonics, a high-tech scanning company that purchased the historic Windsor Utilities Commission Building on Ouellette Avenue. There, they are carefully restoring the exterior stone façade while providing interior design renovations for their use. The company is also working with Conseil Scolaire Viamonde, a French language school board, renovating their school in Windsor. Relatedly, they are working with the Centre Communautaire Francophone Windsor Essex Kent and the University of Ottawa, “evolving a new space for them together in downtown Windsor,” Joseph says.