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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Decisions about new stadium construction today are based on many competing interests. To what degree are they conceived with respect to their potential role as civic buildings, or with respect to their social, aesthetic and environmental impact? Stadiums once were understood as civic buildings, and as part of a coherent public urban realm that accommodated a variety of commercial, civic and residential uses. Come hear University of Notre Dame architecture professor Philip Bess speak about the past and possible future of the traditional urban neighbourhood stadium and its possible relevance to Ottawa.
Philip Bess is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. He teaches graduate urban design and theory, and engages in professional work as a design consultant for municipalities, architects and community development corporations working through the office of Thursday Associates. He is the former director and principal designer of the Urban Baseball Park Design Project of the Society for American Baseball Research; directed and coordinated the August 2000 “Save Fenway Park!” design charrette; and is the author of City Baseball Magic: Plain Talk and Uncommon Sense About Cities and Baseball Parks and, most recently, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred.
