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KPMB / BIG

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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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Shop Under Berm + Hanging Garden

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Concert Stage + Arboretum

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Art Park + Sound Cathedral

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Bike Path

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Toboggan Hill

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Biggest Obstacle for Accessibility_Rail Corridor + Gardiner

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Clusters of Disconnected Neighborhood Islands

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Proposed Panam Games Olympic Park

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Daoust, Lestage inc.
	www.daoustlestage.com

	AECOM
	www.aecom.com

	Greenberg Consultants, Inc.
	www.greenbergconsultants.com

	Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
	www.pfs.bc.ca

	Transsolar
	www.transsolar.com/

	KPMB - Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
	kpmb.com

	ARUP
	www.arup.com

	BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
	big.dk

	WONDER Incorporated
	wonderinc.com


Distinction	Finalist
Doc. level	50%

Description

The greatest constraints often lead to the most interesting solutions. Think of the Gardiner as a resource for building Toronto's future urban space and reuse this copious structure. We are using design to make a radical revision of the Gardiner, using it to generate a new kind of neighbourhood, a new kind of city, THE GAR. We are capturing the best qualities and opportunities of the Gardiner's form, and reducing it's ill effects. Rather than entombing it, we are reconfiguring and reusing the existing landscape around it, to make it part of a dynamic connector of clusters of public space augmented by existing earth berms and strategic northsouth arterials.

Site = keystone at the epicenter of a massive reinvestment in Toronto's future. It will serve 42,000 new residents, 20,500 employees and millions of annual visitors and be anchored by a new transit hubs.

Greatest barrier = not the Gardiner but the Rail Corridor. The Rail Corridor is skirted by Isolated Neighbourhoods. Creating the Clustered Islands of Distillery District, Olympic Park, West Don Lands, and the Lower Donlands. The eccentricity of the site demands a special response. The land is surrounded and traversed by major regional transportation corridors.

Removing this section of the elevated Gardiner is extremely difficult and costly in the short and medium term. But by moving Lakeshore Boulevard out from under the Gardiner and reshaping it, the elevated Gardiner has a potential to become a monumental pedestrian Colonnade to the lake and along 20 acres of new public space lining both sides of the Keating Channel.

480 Lakeshore property can be transformed into a new public ground at the level of a man-made Mountain with an intense urban life at multi-levels. Departing from the conventional logic of streets and blocks this new ground is penetrated by courtyards, passages, terraces, & bridges.

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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.

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg + Bjarke Ingels Group were assign to "Improve" the urban fabric while maintaining the existing expressway.

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