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In 1988 the acclaimed film director and Torontonian Norman Jewison founded the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) on the site in Taylor's mansion, with the first program attended by 12 aspiring filmmakers. Twenty six years later, 100 people now study at the centre annually in 16 different programs, and just last week the CFC unveiled the handsome Northern Dancer Pavilion, the school's answer to its growing needs, at its annual Garden party. The pavilion will serve as a home to the school's multidisciplinary programs. The CFC hopes that this new building will help it to modernize and increase its campus' functionality.
The building, designed by Ken Fukushima, is named after equine superstar, racehorse Northern Dancer, who passed away 24 years ago, was bred on E.P. Taylor's Windfields Farm.
In 1968 the Taylors gifted the property to the city of North York in support of their intent to lease the estate as a campus for the Canadian Film Centre. The CFC, the brainchild of Norman Jewison, was created to be a centre for advanced film studies.
Since its establishment, the CFC has had a significant influence on Canadian identity and storytelling as well as birthing some of the most famous Canadian film stars. The centre also provides its students with high-level training that involves learning from film greats like Spike Lee and David Cronenberg.
The Northern Dancer Pavilion is meant to bring together different aesthetic aspects of the Windfields estate in a way that captures the history and spirit its namesake and the Windfield farm, articulated in a sleek and modern form. The pavilion is constructed of glass and steel, the same materials used to build Windfield's greenhouse. The pavilion shares the same Western red cedar used on the roofs of the cottages, for its north and south exteriors. The pavilion's geometry was designed in accordance with the original site plan and strengthens the formal axis of the Main House and garden. The pavilion also pays its dues to the original property with its eastward and westward looking glass walls which preserve the view of the pastures where the Taylor's horses would have grazed.
The opening of the Northern Dancer Pavilion marks the completion of the CFC's Windfields Campus Improvement Project which was launched in 2009. The aim of the initiative was the update and upgrade the campus while preserving its heritage aesthetic both through preservation and incorporation of complimentary styles.
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