University of Winnipeg Axworthy Health & RecPlex

Transforming the Campus Experience

The Axworthy Health & RecPlex is a major recreational and wellness expansion to the University of Winnipeg’s Duckworth Centre at the heart of its downtown campus.

The project was developed in close consultation with all university and community stakeholders. The vision emerging from this process was to create a facility that is equally open and appealing to the university’s athletics and kinesiology users, the surrounding local neighbourhoods, partnering organizations, and the broader community. Other major project goals included a focus on sustainability, campus integration and safety, and sensitivity to the surrounding community scale and character.

The LEED®-Gold-certified facility accommodates a multitude of sports such as soccer, flag football and track and field, as well as cultural and community events. The Health & RecPlex features a large multi-use artificial turf field, a four-lane rubberized sprint track, fitness studios, retractable batting cages, a multi-events room, student lounge space, and an underground parkade.

The Duckworth Centre was also renovated as part of the project to create a new health and healing based wellness centre which includes an expanded athletic therapy clinic, a multi-professional clinic, food and beverage kiosks, a pharmacy and a medical supplies store.

The vision emerging from this process was to create a facility that is equally open and appealing to the university’s athletics and kinesiology users, the surrounding local neighbourhoods, partnering organizations, and the broader community.