Short list announced for Lansdowne Park competition *UPDATE*
The City of Ottawa released the names of the 5 firms that have been short listed from the 21 submissions received to compete for the design of Lansdowne Park’s open space. The short listed firms are...
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Underpass Park unveiled
A derelict area beneath a series of overpasses in the West Don Lands is going to be transformed into the most extensive park to ever be built under an overpass in Canada, and the first in Toronto....
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Queens Quay get go ahead – WEST 8
The plan to redesign Queens Quay, the backbone of Toronto’s waterfront revitalization plans, finally has the go-ahead. The provincial government approved an environmental assessment yesterday for a...
View ArticleToronto: Can it break free from the Sprawl
Christopher Hume, Architecture Critic for Toronto Star writes in Hume: Resisting the Call of Sprawl Though suburbia has failed to live up to the promise, its appeal isn’t hard to understand. The damage...
View ArticleNew Publication: Scapegoat
A recent post by faslanyc we read about Scapegoat – a new journal on landscape, architecture, and political economy. Its available for free download. Scapegoat is a publication that engages the...
View ArticleMega Cities not always the biggest polluters
Mega-cities around the world such as New York, London, Los Angeles, Shanghai are often blamed for the high Green House Gas(GHG) emissions but a recent report released found that cities like...
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Sugar Beach, Toronto | Claude Cormier
View of beach in late summer ©Waterfront Toronto (Nicola Betts) The revitalization of Toronto’s waterfront is the largest urban redevelopment project currently underway in North America, and is also...
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Pottery Road Bicycle and Pedestrian Crossing | Toronto Canada | PLANT Architect
The Pottery Road Bicycle and Pedestrian Crossing is the first component in a larger scheme to provide interpretation, accessibility, and environmental control for Crothers’ Wood — one of the few...
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Winner selected for Visionary (re)Generation design competition
THE SOUTHWOOD FAIRWAY IN WINTER, A RENDERING FROM THE WINNING PROPOSAL “ARPENT” In December of 2012, 45 teams from 17 countries set forth to re-imagine our landscape, and today(Nov. 4) the University...
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LANDinc in partnership with West 8 selected for Ontario Place
Ontario Place | Image Credit – Flickr User Danielle Scott Back in September, WLA published the RFP for Ontario Place “seeking landscape architects with the expertise and capacity to design an urban...
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Rees and Simcoe WaveDecks | Toronto Canada | West 8 + DTAH
The Rees and Simcoe WaveDecks represent a true integration of structure, architecture and landscape combined to offer completely flexible public spaces that have been embraced by a broad cross section...
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North of 60 | Toronto Canada | Shift Landscape Architecture
The arctic landscape is a wild environment in both reality and imagination. It is a place of lore and legend for the multiple cultures, which extend into its reaches, including Canada. Many often...
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John Street | Toronto Canada | The Planning Partnership
The John Street corridor is an important cultural link in the City of Toronto. It is home to a number of significant cultural and institutional buildings and serves as a main downtown link for...
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“Water Wuz Here” | Toronto, Canada | Lynnette Postuma
“Water Wuz Here” was a process-based installation that visualized the momentary presence of water in the urban landscape. The exhibit was featured in an art show entitled “Grow Op: Exploring landscape...
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Winter Stations Design Competition | Re-imagine Toronto’s winter waterfront
Although the Beach neighbourhood of Toronto is a summer long festival of colour and pageant, this is not true of the winter months. No place is this more evident than along the boardwalk of Toronto’s...
View ArticleVIDEO | Claude Cormier: Happy Design
CLAUDE CORMIER HAPPY DESIGN: CURRENT PROJECTS from Boston Architectural College on Vimeo. In his lecture, Claude Cormier will demonstrate the creative design process his firm uses in the making of...
View ArticleTeam Lord (including Claude Cormier) wins National Holocaust Monument...
The Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, and the Honourable John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs, along with the Honourable Tim Uppal, Minister of State...
View ArticleEVENT | Leading with Landscape | May 21-24 | Toronto, Canada
The Cultural Landscape Foundation will hold the Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape conference & tours on May 21-24 in Toronto, Canada. The conference will tackle numerous issues...
View Article2015 CSLA Awards of Excellence announced
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) announced the national and regional winners of its annual Awards of Excellence. This year, 11 projects received a national award – preeminent...
View ArticleSTUDENT PROJECT | Promenade Park: Digital Computations and Material...
While digital computation methods have increasingly been incorporated into the architectural and industrial design process, their use in landscape architecture and terrain modelling is relatively...
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