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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This lecture presented a virtual tour of rural Ottawa – its landscape, its villages, and its economic and environmental issues where the rural land mass represents 90% of the City’s area but is home to only 10% of the its population.
Kenneth Emig, is a multidisciplinary artist, dancer and educator. He has been working with sound from both technical and artistic perspectives. He discussed the Urban Soundscapes and posed the question: “Is the sound that surrounds our everyday life part of the design, or does it just happen?” His answer opened our ears to the City.
Melissa Rombout, cultural historian and curator of the recent (Summer 2000) Ottawa Art Gallery exhibit Ottawa: On Display, provided insight into the problems and practices of visualizing the city through the framing conventions of maps, plans, photographs, films and printed ephemera. Melissa demonstrated how changing technologies of vision implicate us as performers and beholders on the city stage.
Diane Holmes, Regional Councillor, moderated the evening’s discussion.
