“A narrative art installation as well as celebratory performance.”
– Es Devlin
Client: National Football League
Architects: Es Devlin (Stage Designer)
Consultants: Bruce Rogers
General Contractor:
Completion: 2022
Pop up temporary installation designed to ‘appear within 8 minutes and disappear within 6 minutes’. (set up and tear down).
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Bruce Rogers
Harold Williams (Architect)
Gerald Gladstone (Canadian sculptor)
“Since all of the facilities – restaurants, suites, shops and restrooms – are self-contained units, it is largely possible to do without a solid, enclosed façade. This allows natural ventilation of the stadium, which is the most important aspect of the stadium’s sustainable design.”
– Herzog & de Merons
Client: National Stadium Company
Architects: Herzog & de Merons
Consultants: Arup Sport (Interior)
General Contractor: VINCI Construction Grands Projects
Completion: 2008
The `Bird`s Nest` design is inspired by nature. It had an eco friendly, green mandate.
Technology was used to determine the best place for seating as the skin of the building lets the sunshine in, and keeps the rain and wind out. It also conserves energy via natural ventilation.
It was originally built for the 2008 Summer Olympics and the regeneration of the city`s economic recovery and future Olympic games.
The building is a steel frame with concrete bowl within it as it is as earthquake resilient as possible. It has great public spaces for community gatherings and has connector spaces to an aquatic centre and nearby cultural monuments.
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“Every design and engineering effort was driven by the belief that ‘living buildings’ take responsibility for the ecosystems they play an integral part in, but we also understood at a larger scale that carbon emissions, the by-product of energy produced by fossil fuels, do not respect boundaries, so efforts were also focused on the big-picture biosphere problem “
– Craig Applegath, DIALOG
Client: Regional Municipality of York
Architects: DIALOG
Consultants: Terraprobe (Geotechnical), MTE Consultants (Civil and Air Testing), DIALOG (S+M+E, lighting, Interior Design, Landscape), WSP MMM Group (Building Envelope Commissioning), Ted Kesik (Envelope Consultant), Honeywell Building Solutions, A1 Service Group, Independent Mechanical Supply Inc., Acuity Brands Inc.
General Contractor: Struct-Con Construction Ltd.
Completion: 2015
LEED Platinum, ILFI Certified.
“Living Building“ is free of toxic chemicals and runs on net zero energy, generating same or more energy than it requires to operate. Non toxic, sustainably sourced construction materials and responds to surrounding ecosystem. It is designed to be disassembled and recycled after its projected 90 year life cycle. The exterior wood panel facade is made from salvaged and repurposed douglas fir, the structure is primarily cross laminated timber (CLT) and glue laminated timber (glulam).
The project also demonstrates 7 key `living building`performance areas: Place, Water, Energy, Health&Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty.
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“Waterfront ReConnect challenged proponents to explore and expose the layered histories of the Gardiner, reinforce a sense of safety, arrival, and transition, enhance connectivity and transform an obstacle into an opportunity.”
–Waterfront ReConnect
Client: Waterfront ReConnect
Architects: shortlisted design teams
Future Forest: sans facon + zeidler
Waking the Shore: LeuWebb Projects + DIALOG + Mulvey & Banani Lighting
Boom Town: 5468796 Architecture Inc.+ Office… in search of…
Pixel Story: O2 Planning & Design Inc.+ Mulvey & Banani Lighting + ENTUITIVE
Completion: 2022
The design parameters allowed for innovative sustainability components for each submission. See links above for each submission to learn more.
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The Bentway
City of Toronto
The Waterfront BIA
Toronto Downtown West BIA
Client: Ronald McDonald House
Architects: ft3 Architecture
Consultants:
General Contractor: Bird Construction
Completion: 2022
Residential accommodations and outdoor recreation spaces for families who want to live close to their sick children while they are in the hospital.
High efficiency windows and upgraded heating and ventilation systems in the new building and self isolation rooms for transplant patients and multiple uses have been incorporated into the design of the building.
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“The project aligns with ‘Our Winnipeg Complete Communities Strategy’ where the key directions is a mix of housing types in all communities. This project is located in an area where it is mostly single family homes. “
– Sherwood Developments.
Client: Sherwood Developments
Architects:
Consultants: Shelemy Arborist (Tree Plan), Enabling Access (Accessibility), Dillon Consulting (Traffic Impact Study)
General Contractor: various (local)
Completion: 2024
Public engagement, trees and public walking path maintained, adjacent sidewalk revitalized, underground parking with grass roof above, biking stalls, tree protection plan, neighborhood density.
On-site gym, age in place living with accessibility features.
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Sherwood Developments
“SMM is dedicated to the delivery of quality projects that express a high degree of sustainability.”
– Scatliff Miller Murray
Client: Ladco Company Ltd.
Architects: Scatliff Miller Murray (Landscape)
Consultants
General Contractor
Completion: 2003
Naturalized storm water retention ponds were designed to mimic natural wetlands and used for storm water management.
The walkable neighborhood is close to parks, natural forest, transit, grocery, pharmacy.
Four season landscape, the ponds have been known to be used for skating in the winter months.
The area promotes diversity in neighborhoods including mixed use, single family, and multi family housing.
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“The building will be smart, it will be sustainable, it will be the latest and the best of mass timber technology”
– Luigi Ferrara, Dean to the Centre of the Arts, Design and Information Technology at George Brown College.
Client: George Brown College
Architects: Moriyama and Teshima Architects, Acton Ostry Architects
Consultants: Integral Group (M+E), Fast and Epp (Structural), Transsolar
General Contractor: PCL Constructors Canada
Completion: construction start 2021, complete by 2024
The building will be Ontario’s first mass timber and low carbon institutional building. It is targeted LEED Gold and Platinum, TGS V3 Tier 4, and Zero Carbon.
It will be net zero ready with sustainable structural, social and systems such as cross laminated timber, solar chimney systems for light and air, natural ventilation along with a slanted solar roof and solar energy panels. And a deep lake water cooling system using Lake Ontario’s natural chill to provide air conditioning.
This innovative project will house the Mass Timber Research Hub, Tall wood Research Institute, and School of Information Computer Technology.
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The project is “meeting Toronto Green Standards Tier 2 and targeting LEED Gold”
– Bob Davies, Montgomery Sisam Architects
Client: Rekai Centres
Architects: Montgomery Sisam Architects
Consultants: PMA, Footprint, Blackwell
General Contractor:
Completion: start construction 2022- complete by 2025
The project meets Toronto Green Standards Tier 2 and is targeting LEED Gold certification.
Wind and shade study has been completed for the building, and City of Toronto water management strategy is being implemented.
The design team considered best practices for air quality, air flow connectivity, considered prefab construction to reduce cost, construction waste and expediting the construction process.
Roof top terrace, biophilic design, plant material, and layout to accommodate outdoor dining, dementia patients and therapy and intergenerational programming and interaction.
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“Today, it is imperative that architecture challenges our usual notion of structures and materials. The construction industry is a major emitter of CO2, and we therefore also have great opportunities to make things better,”
-Søren Øllgaard, partner and design director at Henning Larsen.
Client: AP Pension
Architects: Henning Larsen
Consultants: Ramboll Engineering
General Contractor:
Completion: 2024
Commercial building structure made of wood. Timber structure will ‘embed tons of carbon instead of emitting tons’ (Henning Larsen). Surrounding the building will be a green plaza, rooftop gardens, promenade and a waterfront park.
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Ramboll Engineering
