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Winner of Lower Don Lands Design Competition  The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation has announced that a team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. with Greenberg Consultants, Inc., Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, Behnisch Architects, Limno-Tech, Inc., Applied Ecological Services, Great Eastern Ecology, Transsolar, RFR Engineering, Arup, and Totten Sims Hubicki and Associates is the winner of the Lower Don Lands Design Competition. The winning design represents a bold innovative approach to naturalizing the mouth of the Don River and transforming a long neglected area into sustainable new parks and communities. It will provide a naturalized mouth and iconic identity for the Don River and creating a comprehensive plan for addressing urban design, transportation, naturalization, sustainability and other ecological issues.  The area is a critical link between the new waterfront communities that are emerging in the East Bayfront, the West Don Lands and the Port Lands. Under the winning scheme, the Lower Don Lands will be transformed into a sustainable “green” city, a new destination where city, lake, and river interact in a dynamic and balanced relationship – an urban estuary.   The mouth of the Don River is the centerpiece of the MVVA design.   By moving the river’s mouth from the Keating Channel to Lake Ontario, the scheme reasserts the rivers presence in the city and makes the river an iconic identity for the Lower Don Lands.  This initiative is supported by the federal, provincial and city governments which together established TWRC to oversee and lead the renewal of Toronto’s central waterfront. 

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Ryerson University Strategic Master Plan Ryerson University is committed to developing a “Master Plan” to establish a framework for growth, renewal and place-making for the University and to act as a catalyst for change. Ken Greenberg has been selected in association with Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto and Daoust Lestage Inc. of Montreal to prepare this ‘Framework’ for the future. The Master Plan will address a number of broad themes that will define the shape and character of the University for the coming decades - the evolving character of Ryerson as a dynamic contemporary University; re-inventing the heart of the campus, locating major areas for growth and transformation, the character of the public realm of the campus for both daytime and nighttime activity; the ability to increase close-in housing opportunities; the overlapping of campus and city life; the outreach to the surrounding community; affirming the Ryerson University identity; and ensuring a commitment to design excellence and sustainability. This Master Plan project presents a unique opportunity to engage the University community in influencing not only the future direction of a great urban university campus but also the future development of a significant neighborhood and community in the heart of Toronto. (posted 02/26/07)

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Master Plan for the former Canadian Forces Rockcliffe Base in Ottawa Ken Greenberg in association with KPMB Architects has been retained by Canada Lands Company Limited has been retained to lead a multi-disciplinary 'Innovation Team' to prepare a Community Design Plan for the redevelopment of the 310 acre former Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Rockcliffe on the Ottawa River five kilometers east of Parliament Hill. The Canada Lands Company is committed to making Rockcilffe a showcase diverse sustainable community for 21st century urban life in Canada and the plan will be developed with extensive involvement from a broad array of community stakeholders. (posted 08/12/06)

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2010 Vision and Strategic Framework for Hartford The MetroHartford Alliance, a broadly-based business coalition working with the City of Hartford, has retained Greenberg Consultants, in association with CBT Architects, to lead a team in developing HARTFORD 2010: A Vision and Strategic Framework for the entire City of Hartford in its regional context. The Framework is intended to build on the considerable accomplishments of the past years, attract additional private investment in the City and identify initiatives which will advance this goal by building on Hartford's natural, economic, cultural, social and physical assets including its historic neighborhoods and relationship to the Connecticut River. (posted 08/12/06)

http://www.hartfordinfo.org/hartford2010/default.asp

 

Boston University Strategic Campus Plan Boston University has asked Greenberg Consultants in association with CBT Architects to create a new Vision and a Strategic framework for its campus. This strategic vision will guide future campus development as well as identify specific solutions to address current needs. It will also involve representing the University with various groups of stakeholders and provide visions for specific geographic areas on the edges of the campus including the emerging Alston/ Beacon Yard Precinct; the use of Turnpike air rights for future expansion; Kenmore Square and the appropriate interface with neighboring institutions such as the Boston Red Sox and the Longwood Medical institution, relationship to the Charles River and emerging plans for the regional Urban Ring transportation project. (posted 08/12/06)

San Juan Waterfront Master Plan, San Juan, P.R.  Ken Greenberg has been retained to provide Urban Design leadership on a team led by Colliers International which is providing advice to the Government of Puerto Rico for the redevelopment of the San Juan Waterfront, a band of obsolescent Port Authority lands along the San Antonio Canal on the historic Isleta of Puerta de Tierra. The Master Plan will set the stage for phased proposal calls for mixed-use development and a renewal of the entire area including new transportation infrastructure and an interconnected network of new and renewed public spaces. (posted 08/12/06)

Designing the new Don River Park, Toronto  The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization (TWRC) has retained a Landscape Design Team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates to design and oversee the construction of the New Don River Park. Ken Greenberg is acting as Urban Design Advisor to this team. The creation of this new 19.5 acre park will lead the redevelopment of the West Don Lands, an emerging new community on the Toronto Waterfront and become an exemplar of contemporary design, sustainability in opening up the waterfront to broad year-round public use. (posted 08/12/06)

Transit-oriented redevelopment along the proposed new north/south LRT line in Ottawa Greenberg Consultants, in association with GHK International (Canada) has been retained by the City of Ottawa to develop the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Corridor Community Design Plan for the proposed corridor between Bayview/Somerset and Carling. This plan will guide public and private investment in the area, including the design of the LRT stations. Of critical importance to the design of these areas is to ensure that growth and development reflects transit-oriented development while maintaining sensitivity to the surrounding community context. This work has also led to further assignments relating to implementation vehicles for the plan and a more detailed investigation of integrated design at the Bayview/Somerset Station. (posted 08/12/06)

Master Plan for the Grand Parade in Halifax  Ken Greenberg has been retained to provide Urban Design leadership in association with GHK International (Canada) and Young + Wright Architects as part of team led by CBCL Limited of Halifax for the preparation of a comprehensive Public Lands Plan for the development and improvement of the municipally and provincially owned land and facilities within the area of the historic Grand Parade and Province House, the provincial seat of government. (posted 08/12/06)

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