AlvinofDiaspar
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From the WT December Newsletter:
Design Team Selected for York Quay Revitalization Project
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) has been selected to lead the transformation of a key waterfront site. Their innovative proposal will design the underground parking garage as an inviting part of the urban experience rather than the traditional grim, utilitarian infrastructure.
Selected from among 15 submissions during a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, MVVA was chosen to lead the design of the York Quay Revitalization Project (phase two) for Waterfront Toronto and Harbourfront Centre.
Plans for this prime location within Harbourfront Centre include replacing the 1.4 hectare surface parking lot currently on the site with an underground parking garage that introduces sunlight, air, water and plantings into its design. This important piece of parking infrastructure will free up the surface area for future public space and a thriving cultural/retail village.
In its proposal, the MVVA team imagined a parking garage where sunlight and air are directed from above grade, down into the structure through openings and innovative uses of glass and lighting. There may also be opportunities in the garage for integrated sustainable technologies such as the reuse of collected rain water for a summer fountain or winter ice display.
With the RFP process for the design team now complete, phase two work will move forward quickly beginning with conceptual/preliminary design work, followed by schematic/detailed design in the early new year. An accelerated project timeline will ensure that the parking garage is completed by spring 2011.
http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/newsletter/viewnewsletter.php?id=4b213fad699be&template=5
(also contains a new rendering for the GBC, other project updates)
AoD
Design Team Selected for York Quay Revitalization Project
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) has been selected to lead the transformation of a key waterfront site. Their innovative proposal will design the underground parking garage as an inviting part of the urban experience rather than the traditional grim, utilitarian infrastructure.
Selected from among 15 submissions during a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, MVVA was chosen to lead the design of the York Quay Revitalization Project (phase two) for Waterfront Toronto and Harbourfront Centre.
Plans for this prime location within Harbourfront Centre include replacing the 1.4 hectare surface parking lot currently on the site with an underground parking garage that introduces sunlight, air, water and plantings into its design. This important piece of parking infrastructure will free up the surface area for future public space and a thriving cultural/retail village.
In its proposal, the MVVA team imagined a parking garage where sunlight and air are directed from above grade, down into the structure through openings and innovative uses of glass and lighting. There may also be opportunities in the garage for integrated sustainable technologies such as the reuse of collected rain water for a summer fountain or winter ice display.
With the RFP process for the design team now complete, phase two work will move forward quickly beginning with conceptual/preliminary design work, followed by schematic/detailed design in the early new year. An accelerated project timeline will ensure that the parking garage is completed by spring 2011.
http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/newsletter/viewnewsletter.php?id=4b213fad699be&template=5
(also contains a new rendering for the GBC, other project updates)
AoD