Project Status: Competition Entries
We believe strongly in the value of juried competitions, both as a way to discover and elevate new ideas into our urban dialogue, and as an approach that can produce the conceptual foundation for a final built design. We have been repeated participants, finalists, and winners in local and international competitions that have had an important influence on urban design thinking and built projects.
Oracle Square
Oracle Square is a receptor and transmitter, an attraction and garden, a passage and a pause, populated by a loose savannah of vertical and horizontal figures that define space and intensity, and introduce interactivity for the Entertainment District A wide …
Dublin Landmark Tower
The Landmark on the Liffey must show a robust constructability. The new podium and tower must create a landscape for making a living – to be an organism that draws in and enables its constituent parts and inhabitants to be …
Restless Ecologies – University of Manitoba
The name for this project, Restless Ecologies, refers to a primary focus: anticipating a constant movement and exchange – a restlessness – of actions and reactions in an ever evolving interconnected set of ecologies: ecologies that encompass water, energy, biodiversity, …
Homegrown Design Competition: Local Monsters
In leafy Bellwoods, and in all the neighbourhoods of the Garrison watershed and Greater Toronto, we are haunted by unseen monsters. These are the shadows: of the waters our predecessors buried beneath the ravines and all our other urban dreams …
East Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia
The characteristics of this design are those that create and explore relationships between formerly separated elements. At its primary level, the city to waterfront break is repaired and reformatted by mixing the elements of built form and open space clearly …
The Braided Strands: Pedestrian Bridge at Front Street
Our office won the Urban Toronto competition to design a pedestrian bridge over the rail corridor on Front Street.
Awards
This project received the 2011 Toronto Urban Design Award.…
CN Tower Urban Plaza
The CN Tower is the premier tourist destination for Toronto, and certainly one of the most well-known sites in Canada. In turn, the site of the CN Tower addresses many of Toronto’s key urban conditions, presenting substantial opportunities to form …
Pangaea Station: An electric vehicle charging design
Introduction
Our approach to the challenge of public electric car charging infrastructure along major highways treats the travelers as agential activators, engaging with technology, media, culture, and landscape. As much as the structures are architectural, they are apparatuses and instruments …
Buffalo DL&W Corridor Competition Entry – Elevating Landscapes in Movement
This project views its physical transformation of the DL&W corridor as a bioreactor – where the insertion of a new landscape ignites and integrates new ideas, cultural programs and refreshed ecologies throughout the former railway precinct. The new linear park …
Infinite Ecologies – Creating a Biodiversity Corridor in Saint-Laurent
In 2017, the Borough of Saint-Laurent undertook an integrative, innovative competition to create biodiversity corridors. Creating these corridors will connect the natural areas and other green spaces currently fragmented by development, and eventually give citizens access to historic, educational and …
Toronto Green Line Underpass Solution
Toronto Green Line: Rhumba ‘Round My Garden

YUL-MTL Competition: Undercover Montreal
The CCA publication, ‘The Singularities of a Metropolitan Archetype’, shows a series of figures prepared in 1966 by the City of Montreal Planning Department modeling hypothetical plans for 10 million inhabitants: the star-shaped metropolis, the galactic metropolis, and the concentrated …
Lower Don Lands International Competition
Client:
Waterfront Toronto
Team:
Brown + Storey Architects
ZAS Architects
Nina-Marie Lister
Brookner Studio
Kidd Consulting
Applied Ecological Services
Moffatt + Nichol
Arup
Pine + Swallow Associates
Nitsch Engineering
ConsultEcon
The mouth of the Don River is both a spectacular …
Stratford Market Square Competition (2006)
In 2006, the City of Stratford held an initial international design competition for the redesign of Market Square, a historically-significant public open space behind Stratford City Hall that over the course of the twentieth century had become an asphalt parking …