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OMA

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Gardiner Expressway and Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration / Reconfiguration de l'autoroute Gardiner et du boulevard Lake Shore

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Removing the Upper Deck

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes Inc.
	www.claudecormier.com

	OMA
	www.oma.eu/home

	2x4
	www.2x4.studio

	ARUP
	www.arup.com/


Distinction	Finalist
Doc. level	50%

Description

The Gardiner has long been acknowledged as a barrier between Toronto and its waterfront, sequestering the city from one of its key ecological assets and limiting development along its path. Removing the upper deck of the Gardiner offers both the best integration of the roadway with its surroundings and the greatest number of opportunities for navigating across it.

Reimagining the Gardiner as a grade-level boulevard--Lakeshore Boulevard--we have elaborated several key connections across it. Each of these navigates the new Lakeshore Boulevard in a different way, passing over, under or across it to create links between key cultural and urban points and the waterfront.

These connections, while necessary, will not be sufficient to support the growth of the area. Our proposal looks not only at crossing the Gardiner, but at potential new transit modes along it. The east end of the site is a crossroads of the highway, the future relief subway line, and the commuter rail. By creating a new transit hub at their conjunction--a Transferium that combines 6,000 parking spaces with stations for various modes of public transit--transportation to and from downtown can be reorganized and amplified, unlocking the untapped promise of Toronto's waterfront as not only an environmental amenity but as a new ground for Toronto's future growth.

In an age that has learned the limits of growth through sprawl, our proposal uses the opportunity of the Gardiner's alteration to imagine a new "smart growth" strategy for the city. This strategy offers a new dynamic between the past and the future, development and the environment, focusing development adjacent to the city's core and linking it with the city as a whole.

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Jury Report

The design teams were given a detailed briefing which included information on existing conditions and concurrent studies before they began work. Half way through their assignment, design teams presented their work to technical and stakeholder committees for feedback.

Two design teams were assigned to three of following four options to be studied in the Environmental Assessment known as Alternative Solutions.

Office for Metropolitan Architecture were assign to "Remove" the elevated expressway and build a new boulevard.

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