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Award of Excellence Recipient

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National Urban Design Awards — 2016 Recipient

Recipient: 
Union Street EcoHeritage

SHAPE Architecture Inc.

City: 
Vancouver
Province / Territory: 
BC

As Vancouver wrestles with escalating housing prices, a growing population and a limited land base, the pressure for densification will increase. The Union Street EcoHeritage project is one of several urban densification projects that SHAPE Architecture has completed in the inner-city neighbourhood of Strathcona. EcoHeritage offers an alternative approach to densification without eroding the unique scale and patterns found in Vancouver neighbourhoods and by exploring the viability of heritage revitalization with low-energy design. 

National Urban Design Awards — 2016 Recipient

Recipient: 
Regenerating Rossdale

Michael Zabinski, Designer

City: 
Edmonton
Province / Territory: 
AB

Regenerating Rossdale envisions a destination of climatic comfort that begins to address the current disconnect between Edmontonians and their northern climate. The heart of the project is an adaptive reuse of the city’s iconic Rossdale Power Plant on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. By linking the facility to the downtown core with an urban gondola, recommissioning it as a geothermal generation facility and then utilizing its waste heat to fill a series of thermal baths, Edmontonians are brought to the very edge of winter.

National Urban Design Awards — 2016 Recipient

Recipient: 
Impose

Brad Comis, Sebastien Sauve-Hoover, Danielle Soneff of Threshold Art and Design working with Jesse Sherburne.

City: 
Edmonton
Province / Territory: 
AB

The project installed three treehouses in downtown Edmonton: Two in Churchill Square and one in Peter MacDonnell Memorial Park. The installation remained for six months. This work highlighted the nature of private suburban environments by contrasting them against the backdrop of shared public spaces. The three distinct architectural styles reflect the variety in North American childhood lifestyle. Throughout the day, there were periodic sounds of domestic life emitted from within the treehouses. At night, they evolved again with illumination.

National Urban Design Awards — 2016 Recipient

Recipient: 
The Bench Project

Developers: anonymous
Designers: anonymous

City: 
Calgary
Province / Territory: 
AB

The Bench Project started as an anonymous effort by a group of friends to improve the quality of our city’s public realm. As so much of our public space is comprised of roads, dedicated to moving people from A to B, the Bench Project seeks to rehumanize public space. Its goal is to increase social connectivity by creating opportunities to view the city from a different angle, to linger and chat with friends, and to enjoy main streets free of cost.

National Urban Design Awards — 2016 Recipient

Recipient: 
Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization

PLANT Architect Inc. | Perkins + Will Canada in Joint Venture, with Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architecture and Adrian Blackwell Urban Projects

City: 
Toronto
Province / Territory: 
ON

Viljo Revell’s Toronto City Hall (1965) is a well-loved Modernist icon. In 2006, the City of Toronto launched an international redesign competition for its 12-acre civic space, Nathan Phillips Square, which had become run-down and dysfunctional over time. Targeting LEED Gold, the winning design involved strategically rethinking the heritage-designated square to transform it into an exemplary 21st century public space.

Prix d'excellence — Lauréat de 2015

Recipient: 
Wood Innovation Design Centre (WIDC)

MGA | Michael Green Architecture

City: 
Prince George
Province / Territory: 
BC

À titre de premier immeuble en hauteur en bois au Canada construit selon des normes dépassant les codes de construction actuels, le WIDC est un projet exemplaire pour l’avenir des immeubles en bois.

L’immeuble de huit étages (six étages plus une mezzanine et un penthouse) s’élève à 29,5 mètres, ce qui en fait l’immeuble contemporain en bois le plus élevé en Amérique du Nord.

Afin de prouver que toutes les exigences de sécurité pouvaient être respectées, l’équipe a réalisé de grandes maquettes, exécuté des tests et des études détaillées.

Prix d'excellence — Lauréat de 2015

Recipient: 
One Fold

Patkau Architects

City: 
Vancouver
Province / Territory: 
BC

One Fold est une expérience qui relève d’une ambition architecturale de longue date consistant à réaliser des structures avec des rapports poids-résistance toujours plus élevés.

Comme structure en coque autoportante, One Fold couvre une zone avec une quantité minimale de matériau et d’énergie intrinsèque.

Elle est légère, durable, démontable et recyclable. Ses avantages comprennent un rapport poids-résistance extrêmement élevé et une facilité de distribution et de fabrication. One Fold ne nécessite pratiquement aucune structure de soutien secondaire.

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