VANCOUVER—The Vancouver Art Gallery will move into a new building that will double its gallery space to 320,000 square feet, CBC News reports. Currently residing in a 1905 neoclassical building in downtown Vancouver, the gallery will move to a new building on land occupied until now by the Plaza of Nations.

The gallery had previously been expected to move to a site behind the Queen Elizabeth Theater in the city's cultural district, but late last week, Premier Gordon Campbell announced a deal for the new location, made with BC Pavilion Corp., the city of Vancouver, the museum, and Canadian Metropolitan Properties.

A call to architects for designs for the new building will go out in the fall, and construction will start in 2011. The move will likely not happen until 2013.