Engineering ties inside and outside new museum

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

There’s a significant Waterloo Engineering presence in the new $26 million Waterloo Region Museum located on Huron Road in Kitchener. The museum was designed by Toronto architects Moriyama and Teshima with Waterloo architecture graduate Brian Rudy as the project architect. The project was managed by another Waterloo graduate architect, Roger Farwell, of the Walter Fedy partnership. Display’s include the famous Waterloo Pump, co-designed by Alan Plumtree in the Faculty of Engineering in 1978. The museum’s temporary gallery’s “Unconventional Thinking: Innovation in Waterloo Region,” features many Waterloo Engineering spin-off companies that contribute significantly to Waterloo Region.