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re:CONNECT : Connecting the Core / re:CONNECT : Connecter le coeur

Stage 1

Hapa collaborative (Laureate: fee stream winner) (Winner)

Bensal / Doyle (fee stream Honourable Mention) (Mention)

Studio Egret West (fee stream Honourable Mention) (Mention)

van der Eerden / Bienz (free stream Honourable Mention) (Mention)

ASK Warshaw University of Technology (People's choice)

Erdem Architects (People's choice)

Olson

Nad / Kos / (Zerovnik)

Blue + Green Design Studio

Daley / Miller / Dunn / Chan / Klose / Phares / Chapman

Osbourne

Section-T Consulting

Concerned East Van Resident

False Creek Watershed Society

Gleeson / Citak / Solivar / Aris / Odegaard / Handford

Chernyshov & Politano

MacKinnon, EIT

Stantec

Urbanist

Garlick

University of Stuttgart

Ideale Concepts

Sharp, Architectural Designer

Macdonald

Toolan

Vadjoux

winner

Hapa collaborative (Laureate: fee stream winner)

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	2011
Location	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stage	One stage
Competitors	27

Price by stage	$5000

Client	The City of Vancouver
Professional advisor	Sean Ruthen
Doc. level	50%

SIMILAR COMPETITIONS

re:CONNECT : Visualizing the Viaducts / re:CONNECT : Visualiser les viaducs

re:CONNECT : the Wildcard

Description

The utility and necessity of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts has been an issue of polarized debate since they were reconstructed in their present form in the late 1960s. As the first piece of a larger freeway system that was planned but never realized, they stand as a symbol of an era of city-building that thankfully never more-fully materialized. With forty years lapsed since the ribbon cutting, the utility and merit of these structures continue to be debated topics in our city. Through this discussion one thing has become increasingly clear as Vancouver's central peninsula continues to build out: whether they stay or go, a far better future for the structures or the lands beneath them can be imagined.

The future of the viaducts should be contemplated in the context of the broader Eastern Core of our city, which includes the strategically important industrial lands of the False Creek Flats. How we connect the downtown and Eastern Core is crucial to how our city functions and its economic future. While arriving at a plan for the future of the viaducts, we need to understand and develop a broader strategy for moving forward in this area of our city. These two scales provide the context for the focus of this ideas competition.

(From competition brief)

Jury comments

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	Rob Bennett, Directeur
	Joseph (Joe) Hruda, Architecte
	Tom Hutton, Professeur.e
	Allan Jacobs, Architecte et urbaniste
	Patricia Patkau, Architecte

Calendar

September 22, 2011 : Competition launched
October 13, 2011 : Acceptance of questions deadline
October 20, 2011 : Answers to questions posted on website
November 2, 2011 : Registration deadline
November 4, 2011 : Submission deadline
November 9, 2011 : Jury deliberation (for both streams)
November 21-27, 2011 : Online Voting for People's Choice Award (combined streams, non-cash prize)
December 1, 2011 : Celebration event with guest speakers and presentation of winning entries

Press Review

-Aynsley, Mike—openfile. (2 décembre 2011). The future of the viaducts and Eastern Core?: Design competition winners announced
- Aynsley, Mike—openfile. (21 novembre 2011). What the viaducts and Eastern Core could look like.
- Aynsley, Mike—openfile. (29 mai 2012). Vancouver city staff recommends removing the downtown viaducts in latest analysis.
- Aynsley, Mike—openfile. (6 juin 2012). Vancouver publishes detailed concept plan for the downtown viaducts.
- Bula, Frances—State of Vancouver (27 novembre 2011). What Vancouver could get from viaducts land: open space, below-market housing, more?
- Artibise, Youri—Yurbanism. (2 décembre 2011). Vancouver Viaducts Competition: And the winner is…
- Artibise, Youri—Yurbanism. (novembre 2011). Vote for re:Visualized Versions of Vancouver's Viaducts.
-Longhurst, Andy—Rabble.ca. (19 juillet 2011). Vision Vancouver's re:THINK: Obscuring housing crisis through the spectacle of competition.
- JOC—Journal of Commerce. (2 décembre 2011). New Vancouver viaduct designs recognized at re:CONNECT competition.
- Kitchen, Sean. —The Architect's journal. (29 septembre 2011). Re:Connect ideas competition, Vancouver.
- Nursall, Kim. —The Vancouver Sun. (5 juin 2012). Vancouver to hold first open house on future of viaducts today (with video).
- Press release—Public art online project. (3 octobre 2011). The city of Vancouver announces the launch of re:CONNECT.
- Rossi, Cheryl—Vancouver courier. (2 décembre 2011). Public, professionals submit ideas for Vancouver viaducts: Winning juried entry envisions pedestrian and bicycle bridges.
- Stoymenoff, Alexis—Vancouver Observer. (23 novemvre 2011). What's your vision for Vancouver's viaducts? —Public voting is open until Sunday in the City's competition for new solutions around the viaducts.
- Toderian, Brent—Spacing Vancouver. (15 décembre 2011). “And the Winners are…”: re:CONNECT Stand-outs Announced!
- Toderian, Brent—Spacing Vancouver. (26 octobre 2011). No Freeways, but what about those Viaducts? Re:CONNECT Ideas Competition launched!
- VSPN—Vancouver Public Space Network. (21 novembre 2011). re:CONNECT design competition-vote for your favorite idea.
-VSPN—Vancouver Public Space Network. (21 octobre 2011). re:CONNECT – 2 weeks left to enter the City's ideas competition….
- Werb, Jessica. —straight.com. (2 décembre 2011). re:CONNECT viaduct competition winners announced.
- W.White, Robert. —Vancouver is awesome. (29 septembre 2011). re:CONNECT ideas competition.
- Press Release—The Vancouver Observer. (22 septembre 2011) Competition invites new ideas for future of Vancouver's viaducts and Eastern Core.
- Press Release—The Architects Journal. (29 septembre 2011). re:CONNECT ideas competition, Vancouver.
- TNS—Targeted News Service. (22 novembre 2011). People's choice voting begins for ideas competition on viaducts and the Eastern Core.
- Business Information Group—eSource Canada Business News Network. (9 janvier 2012). Ideas sought for 1960s viaducts in Vancouver.
- Redman, Hanah—The Tyee. (6 juin 2012). Public Pores over Plan for Vancouver Without Viaducts.
- Gravit-e Technologies—24-7 PressRelease. (16 juin 2012). Gravit-e Technologies Completes Website for the City of Vancouver.
-Daly, Joey—Vancouver Sun. (1 décembre 2011). Commuters need the viaducts.

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