Case Study
A Jewel of Steel – a Building Around a Building
Steel Building Products Case Studies ART GALLERY OF HAMIL TON, HAMILTON, ONTARIO (Reprinted with permission from Dofasco Steel Design, 2005) By the late 1990s the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) was from an unstable interior environment. The concrete walls were structurally sound, but absorbing humidity and causing leaks into the building. This threatened the Gallery’s more than 8,000 objets d’art and limited the types of exhibitions it could hos