Please join us for a presentation on Limberlost Place, a project under construction for Toronto’s George Brown College, poised to be one of the first assembly occupancy, tall, exposed mass timber, net-zero carbon emissions buildings in the world. Project lead Carol Phillips will discuss the research and innovation that went into winning the international design competition, and the significant challenges associated with navigating the regulatory and approvals processes thereafter. Carol will discuss the project’s structural design testing and code approvals, funded by both the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Natural Resources Canada, in addition to the ambitious sustainability targets set forth by Waterfront Toronto and the City’s Planning and Development Dept. Already the recipient of 8 awards for innovation and design excellence, Limberlost Place is set to open new doors for mass timber construction in Canada.
Carol Phillips is a Partner at Moriyama Teshima Architects (MTA) and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Her portfolio includes MTA’s most ambitious, low-carbon, mass timber, LEED Platinum, and net-zero targeted projects, including Limberlost Place (a joint venture with Acton Ostry Architects) for George Brown College, and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation Multi-Tenant Commercial Building.
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Architects, designers and planners have been exploring how to best ensure the sensitive insertion of contemporary structures in historic urban settings for several decades now. Proposals for new buildings in World Heritage cities around the world have challenged conventional definitions of “appropriate” and left heritage advocates scrambling to find tangible ways to measure visual impacts and visual integrity. Professor Stovel will discuss this evolving debate with recent case studies and offer some reflections on emerging ways to both encourage good new design and to protect the qualities of historic settings.
Herb Stovel is one of the foremost national and international experts in the heritage conservation field today. He has written more than 1200 books, papers, articles and report on conservation, and lectured in 32 universities and is currently the Coordinator of the Heritage Conservation Program at Carleton University while continuing to work on heritage issues at an International level.
