Plan de design urbain

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.