Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport
Information about Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport
Opening hours
- Monday: 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Thursday: 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Friday: 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday: Closed
- Sunday: Closed
INFORMATION ON COVID-19 IMPACTS ON FACILITIES, PROGRAMS & SAFETY PROTOCOL: Read our latest update About Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport The Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport has been designed to welcome everyone from the university and local community who
Changing rooms are located on the second floor. The men’s and women’s change rooms are accessible and have both open-style and cubicles for showering. Change tables are available in each room. Lockers are available for rent here.
There are alternate change rooms available for any user at the far end of the hallway: the Accessible Change Room, All Gender, and Family Change Room. Both have shower and washroom amenities inside the area. Lockers for these change rooms are just around the corner.
The Ontario Association of Architects Award recognizes the innovative skills of Ontario architects in creating spaces, buildings and communities that respect and enhance the environment and enrich human activity. The award placed the building in the running for the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Design Excellence, as well as the People's Choice Award available to the 10 Awards of Excellence winners.
This award cited the elegant design solution that reduced the bulk of the building by dropping the field house partly below ground and making each large space transparent to the street. “This award is a recognition that the building has made a significant contribution to the city’s urban life, going beyond the programmatic requirements and delivering a sense of place,” said Ted Watson, the partner in charge at MacLennanJaunkalnsMiller Architects (MJMA).
“This a tremendous honour for U of T, the architectural firms, Patkau and MJMA, and builders EllisDon, to be recognized for the vision they had for the Goldring Centre,” said Blake Goldring, whose family was one of the founding benefactors of the building. “The building’s structure and design represent a new paradigm for sport and physical activity in Canada because of the way in which it brings together research, teaching, training, fitness and competition - all in one amazing facility. It’s incredibly exciting to be a part of this legacy.”
This award, along with the Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine, recognizes consulting engineering firms and their projects in terms of high quality, innovation and technical excellence. “The tight urban site for this sports research and recreation complex necessitated a top-down built structure, in which the lower floors were suspended from a large truss.” The jury admired “this unusual arrangement which required complex detailing to deal with load deflections in the truss and movement in the lower levels. The designers [Blackwell Structural Engineering Firm] had to surmount a major challenge: building setback requirements meant there was not enough space on the site for the field house, so it had to be located below grade. The resulting design is in essence a three-storey bridge. A system of six parallel truss sections running lengthwise across the building span 54 metres at each bay. The second and third floors containing offices, labs, and fitness facilities, are suspended from the centre truss sections. Many innovations were required to address the finer engineering requirements resulting from this design.”
The vision for the voyeuristic facility stemmed from the fact that a full program of regulation basketball and volleyball courts, lobbies, training, and sports medicine facilities had to be stacked vertically to fit the compact urban site. And that’s where the voyeurism comes in: The east-side truss is left completely visible behind the cable-supported glazing, a transparency that allows the lobbies to look down into the basketball and volleyball courts, and gives the double-height Strength and Conditioning Centre a strong presence from the street. This visual showcase theatrically fulfills the objective of promoting health and wellness on campus.”
Canadian Architect Magazine celebrates the building as an exemplary model for design excellence on campus. There will also be an online video feature accompanying the article to capture the building in context with games and other activity going on.
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Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Fantastic
Fantastic experience: Nice facilities. Impressive.
Fantastic experience: The best strength and conditioning facility at UofT without a question. The equipment is world-class Eleiko plates in Kgs. Bumper plates and lifting platforms available for powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting. Not a large selection of machines for bodybuilding since this is a strength and conditioning focused gym. Air conditioning is great. Very helpful staff and an excellent view of the Varsity stadium. Only problems is sometimes the gym is reserved for varsity teams and not available. Go get your BARBELL FIX here !!!
Fantastic experience: Great equipment, great ventilation, friendly staff, excellent safety protocols.
Fantastic experience: Good gym. Nice location. Staff is excellent.
Fantastic experience: Love this facility. Was my go-to a couple years back, pre Covid. State of the art equipment, awesome staff, beautiful architecture.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful building for basketball.
Fantastic experience: Saw Tupac working out holy!!!
Fantastic experience: Great facility at UofT. Home to the variety blues basketball and volleyball teams.
Fantastic experience: *I've only used the weight lifting equipment* very good gym for powerlifting/Olympic lifting/ free weights. it is shared with athletes, so some areas will be reserved, but I've never had to wait for long for a squat rack. Equipment in the gym includes: ~20 squat racks w/ moveable benches, open room for power/opymic lifting, 4 sets of light to heavy dumbbells, kettle bells, some cardio (~10 treadmills/ellipticals together) and more. If you're looking for weight lifting machines (cables, hammer strength, etc.), Goldring is not for you. Try out the Athletic centre.
Fantastic experience: Best gym in the Annex area
Fantastic experience: The equipments are so ridiculous. However I love the atmosphere and vibe, beautiful view of varsity football court is very inspiring and motivating. I always chose it for my workout specialty cardio
Fantastic experience: My daughter went for volleyball clinic, so professional and my daughter learned alot
Fantastic experience: Well equipped gym!
Fantastic experience: Great gym
Fantastic experience: Kids are registered for March break camp. The facility is huge and clean. The staff are always smiling and ready to help. Lots of energy in the place being a sports facility. But there's too many stairs. Had to carry my legs on my shoulders to give them a break.
Fantastic experience: Gorgeous facility with tons of all-purpose racks.
Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, a lot of weights and lifts
Fantastic experience: What a great facility! Went to a showcase here a few months and I was truly in awe of the pristine design and amenities provided in this facility. I wish I was a student so that I could have access to that all the time! Great work with the layout as it is more than manageable to get to where you need to be without much fuss.
Fantastic experience: So many squat racks! Really nice!
Fantastic experience: Great for weightlifters, powerlifters and those into freeweight lifting! Some machines but not many! Excellent basketball/volleyball courts. Very nice people as staff as well. In my opinion best gym for UofT students and one of the better gyms in the downtown Toronto area.
Fantastic experience: Quintessential UofT St. George gym. Hands down best place for a free weights workout thanks to its copious amounts of bench press / squat racks. Workout with a view will keep you motivated, for sure. Staff is welcoming and courteous.
Fantastic experience: This is where I gym! Thanks U of T
Fantastic experience: My favourite gym for many reasons. Facilities are great, it's very clean, organized, and is a relatively attractive building. Does get very busy at certain times, but never to the point where no machines are available.
Fantastic experience: Best gym
Fantastic experience: Cool Architectural building, nicely done.
Fantastic experience: Superb gym for U of T students, staff and faculty
Fantastic experience: One of UofT's premier event venues and work-out spots
Fantastic experience: Goldring Centre is a modern gym with great equipment, nice view of the street and adjacent university athletic track and helpful staff.
Fantastic experience: I attended this gym 3-4 times a week as a student and now go as a recent alumni. It was very easy to get my status check complete and pay for my membership, they even got new kettle bells and have the option to wear a wristband to get staff to assist you in you workout now. Honestly love it here, I hope I can keep coming for a while!
Fantastic experience: This is fantastic place for training with great equipment, amazing space, friendly staff and everything you would need for a great workout.
Fantastic experience: State of the art, modern building for all kinds of sports within the St. George Campus of University of Toronto.
Fantastic experience: Attended for a team BB game of my grandson nothing to complain about
Fantastic experience: Great spot to work out or catch a game!
Fantastic experience: Went here for an all-star game. Cant find anything bad about it. It's exactly what you would expect.
Fantastic experience: i came here for a brief visit but the facilities looked amazing.
Fantastic experience: Very sunny, lots of new equipment
Fantastic experience: Love this centre. Always a top experience!
Fantastic experience: Amazing gym. I've only gone to the gym- haven't really explored the other facilities they offer, but so far the gym has been great. They offer everything you could want, and all of the equipment are very new and well maintained.
Fantastic experience: One of a kind gym
Fantastic experience: Great for a Varsity Blues games or just some recreational exercise overlooking the Varsity field.
Fantastic experience: Great and new equipment
Fantastic experience: Excellent facility, very impressive. Just very busy and difficult to find what you need.
Fantastic experience: One of the best places in town for high performance sport
Fantastic experience: My favourite gym at U of T! The facility is so clean and modern, and the gym area provides an excellent view of the Varsity Stadium and surrounding buildings. Staff are super nice.
Fantastic experience: The facilities at the Goldring are great. The gym membership is joint with the athletic centre, which is great to. They have lots of drop-in gym classes, something for every taste. The sports clinic is great to, I broke my wrist and am there fore physiotherapy. They are rally friendly and professional.
Fantastic experience: As a UofT student, this is my favourite gym by far. A new and clean facility with a great atmosphere. I normally visit on off hours so there's more than enough equipment/space. Be warned that peak hours will be packed due to Varsity teams booking off sections. Also, all the weights are in kg.
Fantastic experience: Plethora of Squat Racks :-D
Fantastic experience: I hope you love doing bench presses if you come here
Fantastic experience: What a great facility. Everything is top notch
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