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Lansdowne Park - Ottawa (BBB Architects, Barry J. Hobin & Assoc., Cannon Design)

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City website for stadium/mixed use area
http://ottawa.ca/residents/public_consult/lansdowne_partnership/stadium/designs_en.html

The Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) has unveiled the designs for the stadium and mixed-use area for the proposed redevelopment of Lansdowne.

The goal of architects Ritchard Brisbin, Barry Hobin and Robert Claiborne of Cannon Design in Toronto, was to create an urban space that reflects Lansdowne’s long history as a city, regional and national meeting place.

The design respects the 150-year history of the site, create a lively urban space and fits into its Glebe neighbourhood.

The design includes:
-A refurbished Frank Clair Stadium for CFL football, professional soccer and concerts, featuring a wooden veil that would reflect Ottawa’s history as a lumber town.
-An expansion of the Glebe’s grid street system into Lansdowne to accommodate a mix of commercial space, residential development and public squares.
-The Horticulture Building is given a prominent and historically significant location on the east side of the Aberdeen Pavilion, within Lansdowne’s new urban park, where it could become the site of the Ottawa Farmers’ Market and the location of a Parks Canada Agency interpretation centre for the Rideau Canal.


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Site plan for stadium/retail



City Council will decide on the project in late June.
The Citizen has a special page on the project for anyone interested in the backstory
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/lansdowne/index.html
 
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Urban Park Design Competition:

There is an international design competition ongoing for the area between the stadium/mixed use proposal and the canal. Five firms have been short-listed and submitted a design, which will be decided on within the next month.

Firms:
-Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts;
-Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, of Vancouver;
-The SWA Group, of Sausalito, California;
-West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, of Rotterdam and Toronto;
-Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui & Associates, of Montreal.

sample proposal (more in the above link)
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Urban Park Design Competition:

There is an international design competition ongoing for the area between the stadium/mixed use proposal and the canal. Five firms have been short-listed and submitted a design, which will be decided on within the next month.

Firms:
-Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts;
-Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, of Vancouver;
-The SWA Group, of Sausalito, California;
-West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, of Rotterdam and Toronto;
-Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui & Associates, of Montreal.

sample proposal (more in the above link)
b_2of7.jpg

I would love to see a pedestrian walkway here! It's really needed.
 
Won't happen unfortunately as Parks Canada is more or less refusing to play ball on any project that has anything at all near the canal. Same goes for the light rail station proposals/blue skying. This is why we can't have nice things.
 

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