Prof. Van Valkenburgh’s Toronto project wins Canadian urban design award for sustainable development
Projects in Toronto, Ottawa and Oshawa are in the winners’ circle in the 2008 national urban design awards program, scoring four of the top six non-student awards.
Winners include Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto, the Corktown footbridge in Ottawa, the lower Don Lands in Toronto and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa.
The lower Don Lands project scored a special jury award for sustainable development. The port lands estuary urban plan addresses 280 acres. Waterfront Toronto sought to transform the site into a new mixed-use development. The winning proposal crafted “an ecologically based and environmentally sensitive” approach that provides a long-term strategy for sustainable development. Lead firm was Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc.
[Daily Commercial News and Construction Record; May 27, 2008]
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