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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For the fifth year in a row, the City of Vancouver was selected as the most livable city in the world out of 140 cities surveyed by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a market research department of The Economist magazine. This accolade is not isolated to the City alone as one reviews Vancouver’s (city and region) distinguished recognition over the last decade. A major contributing factor to this continuing recognition is a planning, design, and governance framework that has evolved over the last 50 years.
Michael von Hausen gave an engaging presentation that explores “Vancouverisms” from both a regional and city perspective. First we saw how the region is leading urban intensification, saving valuable farmland, and bringing people back to downtowns like the City of Richmond and Surrey’s City Centre. Then weexplored the details of the City of Vancouver’s urban design, planning, and collaborative model through various plans and case studies. The presentation was followed by an interactive discussion that examined how some of these elements could be applied to Ottawa and the National Capital Region.
Michael von Hausen
Michael brings more than 30 years of teaching, training, facilitating, and working across North America in the areas of land development planning, finance, and urban design. A graduate of Harvard’s Urban Design Program specialized in real estate development economics, Michael is President of MVH Urban Planning & Design Inc., a Vancouver based international consulting practice in sensitive land development planning, sustainable urban design, and community partnerships in Canada, United States, Russia, and Mexico. Michael is the chief instructor, curriculum coordinator, and associate of the award-winning Urban Design Certificate Program at Simon Fraser University. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University.
