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Re:CONNECT an open ideas competition

2011-12-08

The removal of the viaducts results in more public parks, new connections to Downtown and Vancouver Eastside, social and cultural installations and improved sites for private development. PWL Partnership, Dialog, Beasley & Associates, Jim Green & Associates

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Downtown Vancouver’s Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts have carried traffic across CPR rail yards and industrial lands into the downtown core for the greater part of the last century. Rebuilt in the late 1960s under their current configuration, the viaducts were the first components of a never-realized freeway that was to run through the downtown neighbourhoods of Chinatown and Gastown.

It's What's for Dinner

2011-12-08

Carrot City
By Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar, and Joe Nasr, Published by Random House

Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) - UBC

2011-07-20

System diagram for the CIRS building at UBC. Busby Perkins + Will

Award Magazine
By John T.D. Keyes, Published June 2011

Our Movember Men

2011-12-01

PWL's team of Movember Men. PWL Partnership

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This past month, the usually clean-cut men of PWL put away their razors to participate in Movember, the annual event that brings awareness to Men's health issues. These PWL guys, who documented their progress daily using Photobooth, started clean-shaven and gradually brought an array of strange and wonderful moustache forms to the office over the month. With dedication, moustache artistry, and patience from their significant others, they have raised $540 in donations for Prostate Cancer Canada and the Movember Foundation. Way to grow, men!

Playing with the Straight and Narrow

2011-11-29

Softer flowing forms and gentle curves reflect the natural movement of water. PWL Partnership

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Landscapes Paysages
By Chris Sterry + Ann Jackson, Published Fall 2011, Vol. 13, No. 4

It Takes a Village to Raise Sustainable Design

2011-11-28

As density rises in Vancouver, the quality of the streets and other public spaces -- the city's living rooms -- must be top quality. Vancouver's Olympic Village continues this trend and raises the bar with sustainable design features. PWL Partnership

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Interlocking Concrete Pavement Magazine
Published November 2011

Many physical and social systems define a sustainable village; e.g., transportation networks and modes, public spaces, urban services, schools, housing and parking, recreation and commercial places. As host of the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, created an innovative urban infill housing project called Olympic Village. The village is woven into Vancouver's dense and layered urban fabric that supports 700,000 citizens set with a metropolis of 2.5 million people.

Grading our Green Roof

2011-11-25

The green roof on the Vancouver Convention Centre comprises 25 different species of native plants, mostly grasses, but also perennials, such as Douglas asters that grew taller than expected. PWL Partnership

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The Vancouver Sun
By Steve Whysall, Published Friday, November 25, 2011

It's been three years since the green roof was planted on Vancouver's new convention centre.

Is it a success? Is it as good as they promised it would be?

The answer is that some parts are terrific - attractive, quality planting; a beautiful habitat for songbirds and insect life.

But other areas are untidy, scrubby, a bit of a mess; you might even say, an eyesore, and a fair ways from what they could or should be.

The Greenest Communities in the World

2011-11-23

Cortix Utilities engineer Terry Balak walks inside the Dockside Green community. Chad Hipolito / Globe & Mail

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The Globe and Mail
By David Ebner, Published Wednesday, November 24, 2011

*Excerpts from The Greenest Communities in the World. Download the PDF to read the full article.

Several times a week, a truck rolls up to a non-descript sheet metal-clad industrial building on Victoria's upper harbour. The trucks dump loads of small chunks of wood, waste that has been reclaimed from construction sites in the region and acquired from a nearby recycling facility.

The Grass Ceiling

2011-11-20

Green roofs are here to stay. But aesthetics and energy savings must be balanced with the practicalities of structure, water, and wear. PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc.

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ARCHITECT Magazine
By Aaron Seward, Published November, 2011

*Excerpts from The Grass Ceiling. Download the PDF to read the full article.

Vancouver Approves $600,000 Contract with Private Firm to Design, Develop Waterfront Park

2011-11-14

One of the design sketches of the Vancouver waterfront project. Columbia Waterfront LLC

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The Oregonian
By Kristine Guerra, Published Monday, November 14, 2011

The Vancouver City Council on Monday took the next step toward development of the waterfront along the Columbia River.

The city council members unanimously agreed on a nearly $600,000 contract with BergerABAM, a local architect and engineering firm, to serve as consultant in designing, constructing and working on the permitting phase of the city's waterfront park.