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Prix nationaux de design urbain — Lauréat de 2014

Recipient: 
Couloir central de transport en commun - Stratégie de développement communautaire

Urban Strategies Inc.

City: 
Région de Waterloo
Province / Territory: 
ON

La région de Waterloo connaît une croissance rapide et on prévoit une augmentation de la population de quelque 185 000 habitants et la création de 80 000 nouveaux emplois au cours des vingt prochaines années. Historiquement, la croissance a eu pour effet d’étaler la population dans les zones suburbaines. Dans une volonté de limiter l’étalement et d’encourager la croissance dans les zones construites, la municipalité régionale investit dans un projet de couloir central express de transport en commun dans les communautés urbaines de Cambridge, Kitchener et Waterloo.

Prix nationaux de design urbain — Lauréat de 2014

Recipient: 
Plan directeur du réaménagement de Blatchford

Perkins+Will Canada

City: 
Edmonton
Province / Territory: 
AB

Lauréat d’un prix de design international, le plan directeur répare une fissure de 215 hectares dans le tissu urbain de la ville. L’équipe a poursuivi l’idée de « connectivité » en insistant sur un mode de vie durable. Le plan porte sur l’aménagement d’une communauté comptant 30 000 résidents et comporte une stratégie énergétique visant l’atteinte de la neutralité en carbone.

National Urban Design Awards — 2010 Recipient

Recipient: 
The RiverWalk Master Plan

Stantec Consulting Ltd.

City: 
Calgary
Province / Territory: 
AB

Stantec’s design collaboration for the RiverWalk Master Plan describes a new vision for the Bow and Elbow Rivers waterfront and new generation of public life and urban spaces in downtown Calgary. It establishes a continuous 4-kilometer promenade that will connect a number of the City’s premier attractions, and business and residential communities, while laying out plans for waterfront plazas, gateways and community connectors, opportunities for public art and cultural expression, riparian restoration and a commuter route for both “heels” and “wheels”.

National Urban Design Awards — 2010 Recipient

Recipient: 
Transformation of the Bonaventure Expressway at the Montreal Downtown Gateway

Groupe Cardinal Hardy collaboration: Urban Soland : paysages urbains and Société du Havre de Montréal

City: 
Montréal
Province / Territory: 
QC

In dismantling the expressway and requalifying Montreal’s main gateway, the Bonaventure project recognizes the importance of revitalizing the sector by creating an attractive community. The proposed concept favours alternative modes of transportation, quality urban development, the integration of public art and the design of a safe living environment. Covering an area of nearly 110,000 m2, the new Quartier Bonaventure will be a diversified community comprising offices, housing, a hotel, businesses and several green spaces.

National Urban Design Awards — 2012 Recipient

Recipient: 
YVR Vancouver International Airport

Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture Inc.

City: 
Richmond
Province / Territory: 
BC

As 2011 gives way to 2012 and beyond, the Vancouver Airport Authority remains excited about the evolution of not only the terminal buildings, but also the larger Sea Island landscape. Place identity, sustainability, and the YVR brand have all been strengthened and improved in a way that the public experience throughout Sea Island will be forever enriched. The notion of a transportation hub transformed into a “gateway landscape” is now a reality.

National Urban Design Awards — 2012 Recipient

Recipient: 
Toronto Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study

Brook McIlroy and the City of Toronto, with ERA Architects, Quadrangle Architects, Urban Marketing Collaborative

City: 
Toronto
Province / Territory: 
ON

The City of Toronto's growth strategy includes the reurbanization of its main streets at the social, economic and cultural heart of neighbourhoods. The Avenues and Mid-Rise Building Study translates the policies for Toronto's Avenues into a vision of vibrant, tree-lined streets, wide sun-lit sidewalks, framed by well-designed contextually sensitive mid-rise buildings that support an active street life - referred to as ‘mid-rise urbanism’. The total length of the Avenues is 162 km, equating to 324 km of “frontage”, with seventy-five percent designated for growth.

National Urban Design Awards — 2012 Recipient

Recipient: 
East Village Master Plan

Broadway Malyan, with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

City: 
Calgary
Province / Territory: 
AB

Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) was formed to regenerate this 50 hectare brownfield site located by the Bow River in Downtown Calgary. CMLC organised an international master planning competition, won by Broadway Malyan from the UK. Their vision of a place-oriented mixed use cultural quarter with contemporary European-style urban perimeter blocks featured terraced apartments, ground floor shops and legible links to riverside parks and spaces and the city centre. Refined in consultation with stakeholders, planning consent was granted 9-months after the competition.

National Urban Design Awards — 2014 Recipient

Recipient: 
Central Transit Corridor - Community Building Strategy

Urban Strategies Inc.

City: 
Region of Waterloo
Province / Territory: 
ON

The Region of Waterloo is expected to grow by 185,000 people and 80,000 new jobs in the next two decades. Historically, new growth within the region has spread to suburban areas. In an effort to limit sprawl and encourage growth in built-up areas, the regional municipality is investing in a rapid transit line to link the urban communities in Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo.

National Urban Design Awards — 2014 Recipient

Recipient: 
Blatchford Redevelopment Masterplan

Perkins+Will Canada

City: 
Edmonton
Province / Territory: 
AB

Winner of an international design competition, the plan repairs a 215-hectare rift in the city’s urban fabric. The team pursued the idea of ‘connectedness’ with a focus on sustainable urban living. The plan delivers a community for 30,000 residents that includes an energy strategy to take the development beyond carbon neutral.

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