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Letters to the Editor President’s Message I particularly enjoyed the issue on trees [ Ground 05]. Like the previous I am honoured to hold the prestigious office of OALA President issues, Ground includes articles that are theoretical and challenging and look forward to serving the membership. The president’s job while providing practical information that is relevant to our practice is typically a busy one; however, I am comforted by the knowledge in Ontario. that I am surrounded by extremely talented and dedicated coun - cillors who are there to help. On behalf of Council, I extend a One concern I have is that the images don't seem to be as crisp as heartfelt thanks to Arnis Budrevics for his successful tenure as they could or should be. Since our profession is quite visually orient - president for the past two years. ed, can the images in Ground be printed with greater clarity without compromising any sustainability objectives you might have? The OALA held its 41st Annual General Meeting on May 6, 2009 at the Grand Hotel in Toronto. This was another successful event Finally, congratulations on the CSLA award that Ground received and included presentations of the OALA Awards and the CSLA this year. The award is well-deserved acknowledgement of your Regional Awards of Excellence that are featured in this issue of great work and recognizes the passion and commitment of the Ground . The 2009 OALA Pinnacle Award recipient is Gerald Editorial Board! Lajeunesse and the first recipient of the new President’s Award REAL EGUCHI, OALA is Linda Irvine. Congratulations to all individual and professional PRINCIPAL, EGUCHI ASSOCIATES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS award recipients. Editorial Board responds: A number of readers have commented on image quality. The Editorial The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and Town Planners Board is working with the magazine's graphic designers and the was founded in Toronto, in 1934, by nine visionary landscape printer to improve the reproduction quality with minimal compromise architects. From humble beginnings, the profession has advanced to the environmentally sustainable quality of the paper. and enjoys a place of respect amongst the professions. The CSLA is now comprised of ten component organizations across Canada. Editorial Board Note: In April, the OALA, a component of the CSLA, joined all compo - The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that Ground: nents in promoting World Landscape Architecture month. Landscape Architect Quarterly received a National Merit Award in the Canadian Society of Landscape Architect's 2009 Professional This year, the CSLA celebrates 75 years as a professional society, Awards Program. and the OALA has the honour of hosting the CSLA Congress on August 13 – 15, 2009, back in Toronto, where it all began. The Congress theme, “Perspectives 360˚ on 75,” will honour our roots, celebrate our current achievements, and take a positive look at the future of our society.

The 75th CSLA Anniversary Congress Committee, co-chaired by Jim Melvin and Jim Vafiades, has created a program that will appeal to the entire OALA and CSLA membership. I encourage the OALA membership to attend all or part of the Congress to cele - brate this milestone, enhance your education, expand your net - works, and to show landscape architects across Canada what good hosts Ontarians can be.

I look forward to speaking with all of you at the conference. Hope to see you there. LAWRENCE STASIUK, OALA PRESIDENT [email protected] Up Front .06 04

ans move through arterial street landscapes designed for cars—or, as he describes it, “how people get to the store, what makes a street good for walking on, what streets are hard to cross.” And he’s particularly interest - ed in the inner suburbs of Toronto. “Creating walkable places has become such an important discussion in landscape planning and design,” says Hess. “But it’s often talked about in terms of the downtown or the new developments on the urban fringe. In gen - eral, there’s not a lot of study of how people actually negotiate the inner suburbs.” And so Hess has gone to the people, finding out 0A what their experiences on foot are like.

WALKABILITY 01 strolling the inner suburbs His “walkability studies,” carried out in col - laboration with the Centre for City Ecology, 0A/ For his "walkability Paul Hess, a professor in the professional start with the most basic of questions: for studies," carried out in collaboration with the planning program at the University of example, can you cross the street at the big Centre for City Ecology, Paul Hess asks people Toronto, talks a lot about walking. And in intersection? “People in these neighbour - about their experiences of getting around his presentations, he has a particularly hoods are generally not used to having arterial neighbourhoods. favourite slide that’s guaranteed to elicit someone ask them, ‘How do you get to the IMAGE/ Katherine Childs chuckles from his audience. The image supermarket in winter without a car?’” says 0B/ Inner-suburb thoroughfares shows an arterial road in Scarborough— Hess. “We tell people that we really do want often pose mobility and safety challenges one of those busy thoroughfares with a to know, that we’re not joking.” for pedestrians. speed limit drivers interpret as an invita - IMAGE/ Katherine Childs tion to excess. On one side of the six-lane At the workshops, participants not only 0C/ The effort to establish a National Botanical road is a No Frills grocery story; on the describe their experiences in these arteri - Garden in Ottawa on the site of the Central other side is a strip mall. Both are popular al neighbourhoods, they also engage in Experimental Farm raises issues related to destinations in this densely populated informal mapping exercises. The maps heritage landscape preservation. apartment neighbourhood. end up covered in markings that annotate IMAGE/ Andrew B. Anderson daily frustrations: “dangerous at night,” In the middle of the road, with cars whizzing “not enough time to cross,” “very slippery past, is something that can best be in winter.” described as a cage. There’s no crosswalk leading safely to this metal structure intend - “When we ask people if their neighbour - ed for people protection, no concessions to hood is good for walking, they often start self-propelled mobility. Just a cage that off saying yes. But the interesting stuff Up Front: looks a lot like a prison for pedestrians. comes out in the details,” notes Hess. “There are a lot of typical problems that “In the planning world, arterial roads are come up over and over,” things that could Information for moving traffic,” says Hess, “but for the be addressed, some of them very simply. people who actually live in these places, For example, care needs to be taken to getting across the street to the shops is a create details such as well-functioning on the huge issue.” sidewalks that drain well, are not icy in winter, and are lined with healthy shade Over the years, Hess has spent a lot of time trees in the summer. Fences, too, he says, Ground hanging out on arterial streets breathing in are overused and often run needlessly exhaust. He is interested in how pedestri - between destinations—such barriers are Up Front .06 05

often taken down by pedestrians as soon BOTANICAL GARDENS as they are put up, if these barriers block 02 debate in ottawa connections to parks and ravines, for example. Destinations such as grocery As a capital city, Ottawa shares many com - stores, transit stops, and apartment build - monalities with other great capital cities of 0C ings need to be connected as directly as the world: celebrated parks, monuments, an area adjacent to the Fletcher Wildlife possible with safe pedestrian infrastruc - buildings, and greenspaces. Many of us Garden and the Hartwell Locks of the ture. Hess suggests that landscape archi - can remember being paraded through the Rideau Canal. The OBGS notes that when tects consider adding walkways and city on class field trips or on dreaded family the Central Experimental Farm and shade to mall parking lots so people can vacations, and we probably shared similar Dominion Arboretum were established in get from the bus stop to stores in comfort itineraries: Parliament Hill, the Byward 1886, 65 of the Farm’s 465 acres were and safety. Market, Sussex Drive, and maybe even a foray into the Gatineau Hills. However, there intended to be devoted to “ …the important purposes of an Arboretum and Botanic Although the results of Hess’s walkability are a number of lesser known, often over - Garden where all the useful trees, shrubs studies are currently being compiled and looked features to the city. For example, no and plants of the Dominion …will be analyzed, the conceptual underpinning of other capital city in the world can boast a brought together …“ his work has immediate relevance: Hess richly historic working farm—the Central urges designers to begin thinking of the Experimental Farm—within a short bike ride The chosen site has been controversial. The landscapes of arterial roads, apartment from the seat of government. volunteer group Friends of the Farm, which towers, and strip malls as functioning since 1988 has worked tirelessly to protect social places rather than simply as collec - Despite its long list of attributes, Ottawa is the integrity of the cultural landscape of the tions of streets and buildings. Although one of very few capital cities that does not Farm, opposes the development of a they may not have the main-street condi - have a botanical garden. Perhaps fitting for national botanical garden on the Farm, tions we normally associate with vibrant a place with a somewhat bureaucratic rep - which was designated a National Historic cities, these areas are nonetheless home utation, the idea of a national botanical gar - Site in 1998. to thousands of people, many of whom do den for Ottawa has been studied for close not own cars. In these neighbourhoods, to a century. In 1929, the National Research And so, the story of Ottawa, the Central people of all ages hang out, stroll after Council of Canada proposed one; Greber’s Experimental Farm, and the would-be supper, shop, and visit by foot. The key, famous 1949 plan for Ottawa included a National Botanical Garden raises a series of says Hess, is that “designers need to national botanical garden; and the 1951 complex questions that combine cultural reorient their understanding of these Massey Commission also proposed one. landscape preservation, horticulture, arbori - places, and then plan how neighbourhood Yet in spite of this historic support, the idea culture, agriculture, and an elusive quest to activities can be facilitated.” has not, until recently, taken root. achieve a balanced solution for a unique TEXT BY NETAMI STUART, OALA, AND LORRAINE JOHNSON, BOTH OF WHOM TEND TOWARDS BICYCLE landscape challenge. The Ottawa Botanical RATHER THAN BIPEDAL LOCOMOTION. Taking its cue from a 1998 study which found that public opinion supported the cre - Garden Society continues to work towards ation of a botanical garden, a group called its goal of establishing a National Botanical the Ottawa Botanical Garden Society (OBGS) Garden at the Central Experimental Farm, was formed to promote the idea. The OBGS while Friends of the Farm continues to adopted the following as its mission state - work towards the maintenance and ment: “To re-establish and enhance a enhancement of the Farm. Who said life botanic garden at the Central Experimental in Ottawa is boring? Farm dedicated to display the diversity of plant life, explain the economic and social For more information on the role of plants, and expand our knowledge Central Experimental Farm, visit of plants and their cultivation.” www.friendsofthefarm.ca. For more information on the National Botanical The OBGS selected as its preferred site 34 Garden, visit www.ottawagarden.ca . TEXT BY ANDREW B. ANDERSON, OALA, A PROUD acres at the Central Experimental Farm, in OTTAWA-PHILE AND A MEMBER OF THE GROUND EDITORIAL BOARD. 0B Up Front .06 06

SHADE 03 protecting public health

The health and environmental benefits of shade might seem like a topic unencum - bered by controversy. Few people would dispute the assertion that strategic increases in shade can protect against skin cancer (the most common cancer in Ontario, and yet also a disease that is largely preventable), encourage physical 0D activity, reduce greenhouse gas and air To conduct shade audits, the researchers Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation is pollution emissions, mitigate the heat assessed the features of each of the eight a lead partner in the pilot project and has island effect, and reduce energy costs. sites, analyzed sunlight conditions, and been very actively involved in shade Why, then, have shade-policy efforts not studied patterns of use. Students conduct - issues, creating a comprehensive shade been more enthusiastically embraced at ed field work, collecting data about exist - policy for the department. Likewise, in the political level? Considering the wide - ing trees (species, heights, canopy widths), 2007 the Toronto Board of Health spread concern over many of the health surfaces, buildings, location of play struc - endorsed a shade policy which says, in and environmental issues connected with tures, etc. All the information was then fed part: “The provision of shade, either natu - shade, the pace of positive change could into specialized software (WebShare) ral or constructed, should be an essential be called glacial (at worst) or incremental developed by Australian architect and element when planning for and develop - (at best). (The tree piece of the shade puz - shade expert John Greenwood to assist ing new City facilities such as parks or zle is an exception to this, with wide - municipalities in preparing strategic shade public spaces, and in refurbishing existing spread up-take at municipal and provin - plans for public open space. City-owned and operated facilities and cial levels.) sites.” City Council has not yet approved “The magic of this computer software,” such a policy (and, indeed, rejected one However, the Toronto Cancer Prevention says Kapelos, “is that it assesses the quali - in 2005, out of concerns over cost and Coalition (TCPC) is clearly not interested in ty of the site in terms of UV risk to users. It perceived liability), but it seems likely that pointing fingers or parcelling out blame. provides a risk profile and a risk overview as the Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition Instead, this decade-old, multi-stakeholder and how these vary across the site.” For continues to connect the dots between group is focused on action, and continues example, in one of the eight parks, the risk shade, public health, and environmental to educate, advocate, and demonstrate for UV exposure was “extreme” at the goals, the politicians might follow. “The the many ways that Toronto could become monkey bar area, but “low” in the open impetus for this work has come from a sun-smart, shade-forward city. play and seating areas. the community,” says Kapelos, “and the people in public health have led it.” While At a recent conference—held in January Along with assessing risk, the program also he notes that “the professions aren’t 2009 at Ryerson University—the Ultraviolet analyzes how much shade is required to embracing this at the same level as mem - Radiation Working Group of the TCPC pre - reduce the risk in different areas from high bers of the public,” perhaps change is on sented the initial results of a pilot study to do to low. “Some of the problems are pretty the horizon—a horizon with enhanced “shade audits” at eight parks and play - easy to solve,” says John Greenwood of the UV protection. grounds scattered throughout Toronto—the risks revealed by the shade audits: “In some first project of its type in Canada. “We picked of the seating areas, one tree will do it.” He For more information on the Toronto Cancer playgrounds and waterplay areas as a stresses that when resources are limited, Prevention Coalition and its shade work, see place to start because of the known risks of the key is “not just to scatter trees every - www.toronto.ca/health/resources/tcpc/. early exposure to ultraviolet radiation for where, but to position them effectively. The TEXT BY LORRAINE JOHNSON, EDITOR OF GROUND. children,” explains George Kapelos, audit analyzes what the opportunities are, Associate Professor in the Department of where the need is greatest, and how to get Architectural Science at Ryerson. best results.” 0D/ Shade sail in Dovercourt Park, Toronto IMAGE/ City of Toronto Up Front .06 07

0F We’re in Rio to see the work of landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994). We’re in it. He designed the public realm of the Copacabana Beach; underfoot is the famous, Portuguese-inspired paving pattern in waves of black and white mar - ble. The public realm extends from a beach-facing wall of buildings, the Copacabana Palace Hotel for one, to the ocean. The beach-side promenade is generous enough for scores of people. Cafes and bars characterized by unique service kiosks with shaded tables and chairs define areas along the four-kilome - tre beach. There’s a dedicated bike - way/running path separated from motor - 0G ized vehicles by a raised curb—the sensi - O Cristo Redentor ; marvel at the city from 0E ble runners come out in the cooler morn - the height of the Sugarloaf Mountain; and INTERNATIONAL ing and evening. The roadway is six lanes: wander through the two-hundred-year-old 04 rio’s modern master two three-lane sections separated by a botanical garden with its incredible axial wider median with grouped trees at regu - avenue of Imperial Palms. Apart from the It’s early March. Imagine twenty-one land - lar intervals; gas stations are in the medi - Copacabana, and a bus ride through scape design students from London’s an. The building-side promenade is as Flamengo Park, the students’ experience Fanshawe College sitting in the summer wide as the combined roadways. Full- of Marx’s work came from a visit to his shade at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana leaved, strangely contorted though seem - sitio , or estate, where he lived from 1973 Beach across the road from the famous ingly healthy trees punctuate the paving in until his death. Copacabana Palace Hotel. They’re not formal groups with simple, backless staying there; they’re hanging out until the benches providing shaded seating; restau - Now a Brazilian national monument, Mellow Yellow Hostel opens at noon. It’s rants spill out onto the promenade, more the 40-hectare estate is a remarkable already 34˚ celsius. A man is wetting down outside than inside venues, some tented, embodiment of Marx’s genius loci, both in a path in the sand to make it more com - some not; as specified by Marx, night illu - fortable for ocean-bound bare feet. A mination is the quality of moonlight . woman is systematically tanning her much 0E/ The axial avenue of Imperial Palms at Rio's botanical garden revealed and already brown skin to the Unfortunately, we were in Rio for three IMAGE/ Andrew Wilson delight and fascination of the students, days only. That’s not enough time to see 0F/ Copacabana Beach at night some of whom are more painfully red and appreciate all of Marx’s local work, at IMAGE/ Andrew Wilson than brown. least not with twenty-one students in tow, 0G/ Marx is renowned for his use of and not if they’re going to stand at the indigenous plants. mountaintop base of Rio’s landmark icon, IMAGE/ Andrew Wilson Up Front .06 08

0H terms of the landscape architecture and and formal ponds. Zen-like rock arrange - was so satisfying about walking through his obvious genius. There is such a strong ments go unnoticed by most of the stu - his estate: so much is unfamiliar yet sense of the place as a designed land - dents. Architectural remnants are located underlying the unfamiliar is what we now scape. Some of that is no doubt related to as follies, walls, and steles. Modern sculp - regard as familiar design ideas boldly, the fact that it was Marx’s home: we ture presides over a generous veranda; in beautifully, lovingly, and perhaps most expect the place to be a reflection of the the blue-tiled cool of a loggia, Marx’s face significantly, originally expressed. person; we expect to have a sense of his captured in bronze. colourful, abstract, landscape plans. But This year, in October, the 46th IFLA World regardless of what we may know of Marx Marx is renowned for his use of indige - Congress is being held in Rio de Janeiro. as a landscape architect, his home land - nous plants—some of which are familiar One of the trips being offered in conjunc - scape is simply beautiful. It unfolds for a to us as house plants. It’s remarkable to tion with the congress is to Sitio Roberto visitor as a composition that is at once see a hillside covered by one of those Burle Marx—reason enough to consider simple and complex, diverse and unified. plants, one of 3,500 species that Marx attending the congress. Paths and roadways divide and demar - reputedly collected. I don’t know enough TEXT BY ANDREW WILSON, OALA, WHO TEACHES AT FANSHAWE COLLEGE IN LONDON, ONTARIO. cate, contain and traverse the sloped site. about those plants to comment on the Restored 16th-century buildings are har - ecological aspects of the plant associa - moniously integrated with the gardens. A tions Marx employed; however, the aes - 0H/ Architectural remnants, modernist pavilion in stone and concrete is thetic result is fantastic, if not surreal—all lush with foliage, are located throughout enlivened by a tile mosaic in red, bronze, the more so to an eye used to North Marx's estate. black, and blue reminiscent of a Marx American ecosystems and the ornamental IMAGE/ Andrew Wilson landscape plan. Sun and shadow define a plants commonly in use in Ontario and 0I/ Landscape architect Ian Payne's nursery, cast-in-place concrete pergola. Water British Columbia. Not So Hollow Farm, specializes in container- highlights and contrasts as natural pools grown native trees and shrubs. Marx’s work is associated with the Modern IMAGE/ Ian Payne art movement. Some of his plans are more like Modern abstract paintings than conventional landscape plans of the mid- 20th century. In the quality of his biomorphic forms and the sweep of his planting plans we see our design legacy. That is what Up Front .06 09

NURSERIES over the decades. Recently, he’s added a Of the connection between his work as a 05 grow your own new project to the mix—starting a native landscape architect and his endeavours plant nursery on his 47-acre property near with the nursery, Payne sees it as a natu - Landscape architect Ian Payne, OALA, not Creemore, in the Mulmur Hills. “As a land - ral progression—from growing plants to only has deep roots in the plant world—at scape architect, I could see the demand design services and vice versa. When a age 14, his first job was at a nursery—but for native trees and shrubs and the diffi - project calls for trees that are generally he knows plant roots intimately. “As a kid, I culty in sourcing them. I’ve always loved hard to source, such as American beech learned how to identify species by their growing plants, so I decided to start a or basswood, he knows where to find below-ground growth,” he says, just one nursery.” Specializing in container-grown them—in the more than 20,000 containers of the benefits of spending his high-school native trees and shrubs, Payne’s Not So currently comprising his nursery stock. “I’ve March breaks potting bare-root shrubs at Hollow Farm has found a niche selling to started collecting my own seeds, too,” Weall and Cullen Nursery. Another benefit community groups doing naturalization says Payne, who has set himself the goal was learning early on about the business projects. “Because of the size of our of propagating the notoriously difficult-to- side of the plant world—an experience plants,” the bulk of which are in 1- to 2-gal - propagate native shrub leatherwood that spurred him on to start his own land - lon pots, “they’re especially good for use in (Dirca palustris ): “I like the idea of growing scaping company, with his brother, while community plantings done by volunteers,” species that aren’t commercially avail - still in high school. “In the beginning, we says Payne. Another growing market is able.” And he adds: “ yet. “ did maintenance, but then we moved in municipalities and conservation authori - the direction of construction. When we ties: “They’re putting out tenders asking for For more information on Not So Hollow switched to construction, I would sell a plants from a specific seed zone,” Payne Farm, email [email protected]. job and then figure out how to build it.” points out, noting that his nursery tracks TEXT BY LORRAINE JOHNSON, AUTHOR OF THE NEW ONTARIO NATURALIZED GARDEN AND 100 EASY-TO- seed provenance and is concentrating on GROW NATIVE PLANTS. Clearly a go-getter, Payne didn’t let obsta - local seed sources and specifying seed cles get in the way of his chosen path. zones on his plants lists. When he decided in the late 1970s to apply to the University of Toronto’s land - scape architecture program, he wasn’t deterred by the fact that the program was already at full enrollment. He and a friend built their own drafting tables and erected a loft-like structure in the faculty’s fifth-floor design studio. “That year, the class had two extra students,” he says with a grin.

With his own landscape business and commuting to school using the company truck, he must have seemed a rather pre - cocious student. “One of my first-year teachers said, ‘Why are you even here?’” Payne admits, though he also confesses, “I wasn’t what you’d call a good student. I didn’t get great marks.”

Marks aside, Payne’s entrepreneurial spirit has taken him far, and his design/build company, Enviroscape Inc., has flourished

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CSLA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE— ONTARIO REGION

The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards are given for outstanding accomplishment in landscape architecture. Congratulations to the following Regional Award winners. CSLA .06 11 Awards

OALA Regional Honour Award: Project Name: Cornell Master Plan for The Ithaca Campus

Organization: George Dark, OALA, FCSLA, ASLA, Urban Strategies Inc.

Client: Cornell University

Location: Ithaca, New York, USA

Category: Planning and Analysis

Judges' Comments:

01 A comprehensive master plan that effectively incorporates and links to the surrounding regional landscape and reinforces the campus identity. Solid landscape architectural work that succeeds in creating a sustainable, marketable vision for campus development.

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01/02/03/04/ Cornell Master Plan for The Ithaca Campus

IMAGES/ George Dark, Urban Strategies Inc.

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OALA Regional Merit Award: Project Name: Franklin Children's Garden

Organization: Janet Rosenberg + Associates (JRA) / Schollen & Company Inc. / City of Toronto

Client: City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division

Location: Toronto Islands, Toronto, Ontario

Category: 02 Design

Judges' Comments: This design takes a fresh and inspiring approach to play that departs from the reliance on catalogue standards to fully immerse children in a multi-layered expe - rience: spatial, sensory, cognitive, physical. It creates a whimsical narrative with a strong connection to the primeval and elemental. A great introduction to ecology for children. 03

01/02/03/04/ Franklin Children's Garden

IMAGES/ Janet Rosenberg + Associates (JRA) / Schollen & Company Inc. / City of Toronto

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01 OALA Regional Merit Award: Project Name: Boustrophedon Garden

Organization: PLANT Architect Inc.

Client: Societe du 400e anniversaire de Quebec

01/02/03/04/ Boustrophedon Garden 02 Location: IMAGES/ PLANT Architect Inc. Quebec City, Quebec

Category: Design

Judges' Comments: This novel, playfully complex, temporary installation pushes the boundaries of our profession. “I had no idea of what to expect, I got here and said wow.” It’s 03 successful as a machine that materializes the passage of time and as a very rich garden experience.

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01 OALA Regional Merit Award: Project Name: Ellis Avenue Stormwater Management Wetlands

Organization: Ecoplans Limited

Client: City of Toronto

Location: Toronto, Ontario 02 03

01/02/03/04/ Ellis Avenue Stormwater Category: Management Wetlands

Landscape Management IMAGES/ Ecoplans Limited

Judges' Comments: This project has been a great ecological and recreational improvement to this part of Toronto. The landscape architect is to be commended for reversing the engineering approach to stormwater control toward a more holistic weaving of habitat, recreation, circulation, bank stabilization, and stormwater. 04 CSLA .06 15 Awards

OALA Regional Citation Award: Project Name: Seaton Natural Heritage System Management Plan and Master Trails Plan

Organization: Schollen & Company Inc.

Client: Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Category: Planning and Analysis

Judges' Comments: Clear, rational, proactive approach with ecologically sound criteria. The precise knowledge in this report will help to safe - guard the integrity and value of the com - munity’s natural/cultural landscapes. One of the challenges in landscape archi -

01 tecture is to capture this kind of informa - tion before the environment is threatened. This initiative sets a precedent for the protection and management of natural heritage resources in other communities across the country.

01/02/03/ Seaton Natural Heritage System Management Plan and Master Trails Plan

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Does the division of projects into categories such as “design” and “plan - ning analysis” capture the nuances of the Winning different projects, or does it create some - what fragmented distinctions?

Johanna Evers (JE): As stewardship and Trends sustainability become prerequisites for our work as landscape architects, does that negate the need for a “landscape manage - For this Awards issue of Ground, ment” category in awards programs? a panel of Editorial Board members Netami Stuart (NS): All management plans are not sustainable, necessarily. And all was convened to discuss trends that sustainable projects are not necessarily management plans. The management cat - might be identified in a selection egory is interesting because it highlights timescale in our work. of this year’s CSLA Regional Award- Andrew B. Anderson (AA): Yes, so main - winning projects by Ontario-based taining these various categories of awards serves to represent the breadth of what we landscape architecture firms and to do as landscape architects. address general issues raised by NS: The award winners are often similar in scope every year, so I wonder if projects of awards programs. different scopes even get submitted. And if not, why not?

Yvonne Yeung (YY): I think it may be a mat - ter of timing; many innovative projects are kept sensitive because they are subject to approval. Or perhaps in a competitive industry some firms may not submit in order to not give their clients away.

Nancy Chater (NC): But wouldn’t they want

PARTICIPATING IN THIS ROUND TABLE to be published in a magazine and get the DISCUSSION WERE EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS ANDREW B. ANDERSON, NANCY CHATER, associated publicity that an awards pro - JOHANNA EVERS, JOCELYN HIRTES, FUNG LEE, NETAMI STUART, AND YVONNE YEUNG. gram confers? ORGANIZED BY NETAMI STUART, OALA EDITED BY NANCY CHATER, OALA, Jocelyn Hirtes (JH): They already have the AND LORRAINE JOHNSON commitment from their client, so perhaps they don’t need publicity.

NC: I would have thought that the prospect of an award would have been motivating. Round Table .06 17

AA: Well, that is part of a discussion about JE: Even if you look at places like Portland, tainable way possible while maintaining the benefits of awards programs like this. Oregon, or Vancouver, where projects can their open space by reducing sprawl. Some people couldn’t care less, and other be so much more forward-thinking, things That’s also what McHarg was advocating people think they are really important. here can seem so rigid and conservative decades ago. and tied to economics in comparison. YY: The big question is how people outside AA: I wonder if part of the trend is that of our profession see the awards, and this, AA: That’s a factor of what the client wants sustainable principles are so much a part in part, defines the value. or what the municipality will allow. Those of the core that they’re not in your face. are the confines. That’s the box that our NC: What sort of stature do the awards projects are in, and we try to push out of NS: It happens to be sustainable but it’s have, outside of our colleagues? that box, but the projects, in the end, are a story about something else. projects, and the client wants them. Real Fung Lee (FL): That’s what I always ask. projects for real clients. AA: Right, as opposed to maybe ten years And that’s what people in my office ago, when it would have been much more always ask. JH: So are you saying that design in literal, like “look at this, it’s sustainable.” Ontario is kind of earnest? Now, there are no little signs saying, “look AA: I think that in general, awards mean, at the bioswale.” I think those sustainable quite simply, “these projects are award-win - AA: I’d say so. principles are becoming inherent, and ning.” Hence, there’s the perception that people are feeling that it’s no longer what they must be good. JH: So, these are earnest projects that sets them apart … take themselves quite seriously? Even the NS: There’s a great proliferation of awards ones that are kind of playful—the Narratives are, of course, stories. And in the world. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, ephemeral garden and the children’s gar - stories are concerned with time… but you can get an award for pretty much den, for example—still have a sort of seri - anything, no matter how obscure. There are ous undertone to them. FL: Is a temporary installation, such as the a lot of awards! Boustrophedon Garden project, still land - NC: The Importance of Being Earnest. scape architecture? NS: I wonder if you could get a developer (laughter) to pay you to make the submission to an NS: Absolutely. I think it’s a good awards program, because getting that AA: That’s what we should call our Round experimental terrain. award is going to increase the value of Table discussion… that development. JH: There are very different constraints, One of the key features identified by the though, for something that has to stay While avoiding qualitative judgements of panel in the award-winning projects had there forever versus something that is the CSLA award-winning projects specifi - to do with sustainability, and the way going to come down in a few months. cally, the panel did make some general that the idea of sustainability becomes a observations. narrative force in the designs: there are AA: The context of a four-hundred-year- different narratives of sustainability old walled city, one of the oldest cities in JE: We are winning awards for things now embedded in all of the winning projects. North America, contrasted with a contem - that people in Europe were winning awards porary aesthetic contributes to the power for five years ago. NC: Perhaps we’re in a new era of of the Boustrophedon Garden design, McHargian landscape planning. Several I think. NC: We’re certainly always behind Europe in of the projects are indebted to that tradi - terms of sustainability and in terms of tion. Is this the 2009 version of McHarg’s NC: I like narratives for gardens, the story embracing public space as a highly valued influence on landscape analysis as in his of the concept behind the project, but then part of our culture. Design With Nature ? We could ask if the there’s always the question: if you just projects are doing something different or encountered the garden, would you adding some other layers? In the Cornell understand that narrative context? Master Plan project, for example, they are trying to plan for densification and devel - opment of the campus in the most sus - Round Table .06 18

FL: Sometimes, whether or not you under - AA: Whether it is within the urban context have put a wetland back, on the south side stand it is almost irrelevant if it’s still a or not, people are realizing the impor - of the existing roadways. beautiful space. tance of sustainability issues and having to find a means to overlay that sustainable JE: It’s sort of ironic that there was a naturally NC: Yes, if something captures you, it infrastructure into an existing setting. And functioning ecosystem, and then we com - draws you in in some way. One of the both the Cornell Master Plan and the Ellis pletely destroyed it and fragmented it, and other interesting things about the Avenue Stormwater Management then we come in and try to recreate the Boustrophedon Garden design is that it’s Wetlands are examples of this, to a conditions that were there, and put the looking at land use as well as land aes - degree. This is the whole point of the proj - pieces back together. thetics. It is bringing to light the current ects as opposed to being one of the fea - interest in the productive landscape and tures. As we become more informed NS: I guess that’s what landscape various forms of agriculture. about ecological systems, the question architects do. becomes how do we integrate them into YY: I often wonder if people who live in an an existing environment? In recreational settings, safety becomes an urban setting look at a garden, basically, important issue in design, a topic that the as a piece of furniture. That aesthetic YY: Also, as the city grows, it means there’s panel addressed in their discussion of the doesn’t really have a temporal quality to it so much more construction and built-form Franklin Children’s Garden. whereas this project is trying to communi - which needs to be balanced without dis - cate the role of time in a garden by show - turbing the natural environment. Where will AA: Alternative and natural creative play is ing how the weight and the height of the the stormwater go, and where will the coming back into what people want. I think plants actually evolve. wastewater go? And, how do you create a that’s a major thing about the Franklin neighbourhood for these thousands of new Children’s Garden. As an award-winning AA: And the designers are using that people in a community without sacrificing alternative playground, the pendulum has temporal aspect as a feature, celebrating the natural system that was already there? really swung back from the late 90s when it, instead of trying to contain something an unbelievable number of playgrounds that is inherently dynamic and keep it stat - AA: Plus, more and more, this type of were ripped out because the safety ic. There’s the whole concern these days, infrastructure is now being implemented standards changed. even at the municipal level, that we want in high-profile, highly used areas. something low maintenance, we don’t YY: Playgrounds are perhaps becoming want to have to do anything to the garden. NS: Really, the question is: “where do you more dynamic and imaginative. It’s like denying the dynamics of a put all that water?” You gotta put it some - living landscape. where! AA: It’s so much richer for a child’s experi - ence. I think that in Ontario we are really The narratives get more complicated AA: Municipalities are investing huge behind. I think of a lot of European prece - and layered when a landscape already amounts of money into building stormwa - dents, and it’s just embarrassing what we has existing uses and infrastructure is ter management facilities in various forms. are calling playgrounds. designed as an overlay to that. For the How do they get implemented into exist - panel, the issue was particularly at work ing park settings without destroying NC: There is a lot of revaluing imaginative in the Ellis Avenue Stormwater the park? play rather than just making physical, vigor - Management Wetlands and the ous places. And this change requires a Cornell Master Plan. NC: It’s also interesting to ask how infra - reconsideration of danger and liability. North structure can be used to restore natural America is so concerned with liability and NS: Infrastructure in recreational settings is system linkages. In one of the Ellis Avenue being sued. The catch is that if you pur - complex. Ponds are not necessarily very Stormwater Management Wetlands sites chase play equipment from one of the big helpful to recreational purposes—they at the south end of Grenadier Pond, the manufacturers , they have already done all take away from the space in a park. roadways [Gardiner and Lakeshore the testing as far as accidents that could Boulevard] severed the linkage between happen and safety precautions. If you do NC: There’s a lot of emphasis on creating the pond and Lake Ontario. The pond something new, you have to consider all the habitat with the infrastructure which adds used to be a natural wetland that dis - ways a child could hurt themselves—and another layer. charged into the lake, but that whole func - there are so many—and then you need to tion was cut by filling in the road. Now they get it passed and approved, which is Round Table .06 19

difficult, especially for a municipality. That’s AA: Seaton is an example of a landscape And finally, to sum up… why designers keep going back to the architect leading a project, whereas too catalogues. often landscape architects are brought NS: We’ve talked a little bit about patch- in at the end. That’s now changing. ups versus landscape architects leading YY: Does the City of Toronto have a guide - Landscape architects are now leading the natural environment projects. And we’ve line for every park to have a play structure? teams, and are being involved earlier in talked a little about narrative and sustain - the process. It’s refreshing, and I think ability, and the place of sustainability in all AA: No. that’s going to happen more and more. of these. We said earlier that it appears This award for the Seaton project exempli - as though we don’t win awards simply for YY: So it’s up to the designer. fies how a landscape architect can have making a bioswale anymore, we win a direct influence on the shape of an awards for projects that have a bioswale AA: Well, it’s up to the community. It’s up to entire new town. in them. I wonder if we could talk about us to promote this type of play, this kind of that in terms of sustainability and how it self-induced activity. And it’s up to us as FL: Are landscape architects being appears in all of the projects. landscape architects to promote these brought in earlier now because people types of alternate play gardens and parks. are seeing our role as being the responsi - FL: They are all about being responsible, We tend to rely on the catalogues. It’s up ble role? Like, we’re not just making things all about finding the best practices in to us to come to up with other solutions. pretty. So is this representing the greater some way. Not only ecologically, but also public’s understanding of what we culturally and socially. I think that is a huge YY: I am curious to know the budget of the can offer? difference compared to several years ago, Franklin Children's Garden, because in a where it was the coolest or prettiest or lot of communities, when we do a park, NS: That is a good example of landscape whatever that won the day. You know, the we need to put in a playground and those architects leading the natural heritage part novel project. All of these Regional Award structures are not cheap. And when you of the development, but I’m not convinced projects, to some extent, are trying to be put in a structure like this, it means that the that this plan wasn’t a compromise. In the responsible, or are going in a more city becomes responsible to maintain it. drawings of the project’s plans, there is responsible direction. That is a big part of the decision and also only one house. It is ambitious, but we of the maintenance budget. don’t know enough about the rest of the YY: I think that is becoming the fundamen - development to say that landscape archi - tal criteria. In the call for nominations for Turning to the Seaton Natural Heritage tects are finally getting to do what they the IFLA awards, for example, no matter System Management Plan and Master do the best. what category you are entering, you have Trails Plan, the panel saw it as an exam - to fulfill that environmental criteria. And ple of what can be achieved with a FL: That’s normal for any project they talk about promoting biodiversity; they landscape architect-led master planning though, isn’t it? talk about use and reuse of local materials process: that is, landscape systems instead of shipping from across the globe. become the driving force, shaping where NS: This Seaton project is also interesting So, this is now becoming the requirement. development can and cannot occur. because not only do they talk a lot about green spaces and connectivity of forest, FL: This is a shift. It’s not just about the AA: I think the main thing about the Seaton but at the same time what they are doing contemporary aesthetic; I think it’s about project is that it’s all about an environmen - in this green system is building an alterna - how inherent sustainability has to become tal systems functioning approach—an tive transportation system: a set of bike to all projects. “environment first” approach to community paths that will get you from Highway 7 to MANY THANKS TO LESLIE MORTON, ASSOCIATE MEMBER, OALA, FOR TRANSCRIBING THIS ROUND planning. It’s more than just the pretty stuff, Concession Road 3. It’s a really strong net - TABLE DISCUSSION. it’s the science behind it. work of non-motorized transportation ways. The relationship between having NC: The other thing that really caught my a trail system and a natural heritage attention was that this plan is being devel - system doesn't always agree so it is good oped in collaboration with First Nations. to see this integration. That’s very progressive and too often ignored, or invisible. OALA .06 20 Awards

2009 OALA AWARDS

The 2009 OALA Awards were presented in March during the OALA’s Annual General Meeting in Toronto. Congratulations to all those honoured with the awards, and a special thanks to the Honours, Awards and Protocol Committee: Nelson Edwards, Jim Melvin, Jim Vafiades, and Jane Welsh, and the Chair of the Committee, Linda Irvine. OALA .06 21 Awards

OALA PINNACLE AWARD FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL EXCELLENCE:

Gerald Lajeunesse, OALA

This award recognizes an OALA member and his or her professional work. It singles out specific projects to draw attention to a body of work which demonstrates outstanding professional accomplishment.

As a practising landscape architect since 1978, and Chief Landscape Architect for the National Capital Commission (NCC) since 1990, Gerald Lajeunesse has direct - ed and supervised the landscape archi - tecture and urban design disciplines in support of the landscape design and con - struction mandate of the NCC. Gerald has continued the legacy of his distinguished predecessors through his dedication, tire - less energy, and pursuit of design excel - lence, which has resulted in the realization of countless exceptional projects for Canada’s Capital Region. The professional work that he and his dedicated staff have produced has been recognized in 02 Canada, North America, and throughout Gerald’s professional accomplishments landscape architecture over the span of the world, winning numerous prestigious include: the planning and development of his significant career, and for his inspired awards both nationally and internationally. the Capital’s urban corridor network and contribution to the outstanding design recreational pathway system; the develop - and development of Canada’s Capital. Gerald has been directly responsible, since ment of public open spaces; the rehabili - 1988, for the development and implementa - tation of large sites, parks, parkways, and tion of NCC’s most significant urban 01/ Gerald Lajeunesse, recipient of the OALA Pinnacle public green spaces; and urban design Award for Landscape Architectural Excellence streetscape project, Confederation projects with the National Capital Region. IMAGE/ Douglas Pinnell Boulevard. This project required sensitive 02/ The Capital's urban corridor network has negotiations and collaboration with the City developed under Lajeunesse's guidance. Gerald has also participated as a jury of Ottawa in order to harmonize with other IMAGE/ Courtesy of Gerald Lajeunesse member with the “Communities in Bloom” municipal infrastructure improvements. 03/ For two decades, Lajeunesse has been responsible program since 1995, has served on many for NCC's most significant urban streetscape project, Confederation Boulevard. awards juries in Ontario and Quebec, IMAGE/ Courtesy of Gerald Lajeunesse and has been active as a volunteer in many community initiatives within the National Capital Region as well as the OALA, AAPQ, and the CSLA through - out his career.

Gerald is a respected and distinguished professional who is held in high regard by his peers, colleagues, superiors, and staff for his outstanding leadership, lega - cy, and impressive body of work in our Nation’s Capital. The OALA honours Gerald with the Pinnacle Award for Landscape Architectural Excellence in special recognition of his dedication and ambassadorship to the profession of

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OALA CERTIFICATE OF MERIT FOR SERVICE TO THE ENVIRONMENT:

KARA – Kleinburg and Area Ratepayers Association, for their Kleinburg New Forest / Forster Woods Project

This certificate is given to a non-land - scape architectural individual, group, organization, or agency in Ontario to recognize and encourage a special or unusual contribution to the sensitive, sustainable design for human use of

the environment. Contributions may 03 have had a local, regional, or provin - New Forest. Most critical was that a triumvi - cial impact through policy, planning, or rate partnership was formed whereby design, or as an implemented project. changes to the open space lands have to 01 be approved by KARA, the City of Vaughan, Through twenty years of continuous OALA DAVID ERB MEMORIAL AWARD: and the TRCA, who hold ownership. At least efforts, the Kleinburg and Area Ratepayers Jane Welsh, OALA six OALA members have been involved Association has been able to transform 40 in supporting or voluntarily helping This award is named after David Erb, acres of former farmland to an emerging KARA’s cause. who was an outstanding volunteer in forest. They have fought off threats and furthering the goals of OALA. His plans for buildings, residential lots, and KARA has learned that urban pressures example set a truly high standard. The other high-impact proposals and have will continue to menace the community’s award is the best way to acknowledge created a 40-acre forest for the community, desires for a greenbelt that distinguishes one outstanding OALA member each by the community, and to define the com - the Village of Keinburg from other neigh - year whose volunteer contributions munity. It is now a wildlife refuge and pas - bouring communities; therefore, in 2008, over a number of years have made a sive recreation resource where herbicides KARA presented the legacy of the Kleinburg real difference. once maintained an annual crop of corn. New Forest to the City of Vaughan Council.

Jane Welsh is a long-standing volunteer Over the years, KARA has involved the com - This organization serves to demonstrate with more than twenty years of service to munity, the City of Vaughan, the Toronto and how citizen groups can mobilize to save the OALA. Jane has been integral to the Region Conservation Authority, and the and create landscapes that they value. planning and hosting of several OALA and University of Guelph to create the Kleinburg CSLA conferences and has been a mem - ber of the Honours, Awards and Protocol Committee since 19 91.

Jane brings great joy, seriousness, and a sense of purpose to all of her volunteer activities. She has been, and continues to be, an outstanding volunteer and has con - tributed greatly to the goals of the OALA.

In accepting the award, Jane paid tribute to David Erb, describing him as “a great friend and mentor.” She noted that Erb had convinced her to co-chair the CSLA Conference Committee when she was four months pregnant: “That was quite a maternity leave…”

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OALA AWARD FOR SERVICE TO THE ENVIRONMENT: promote philanthropy, corporate support, the Memorial Garden Project by the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation and community involvement to achieve a Community Head Injury Resources range of enhancements to the parks sys - Services of Toronto, to name only a few. This award is given to a non-landscape tem that can no longer be achieved architectural individual, group, organi - through city funding alone. In accepting the award for the Toronto zation, or agency in the Province of Parks and Trees Foundation, Ontario in recognition of a special or The Foundation has been successful in Arthur Beauregard noted that the TPTF is unusual contribution to the sensitive, raising funds to enhance the physical envi - “seven years young,” and he acknowl - sustainable design for human use of ronment within City parks as well as in edged that its achievements are the the environment. The contribution must providing funding for “small grassroots results of partnerships, many of which are emulate the fundamental principles park projects” through the Community with OALA members. of the OALA and the OALA Mission Grants Program. Statement and go beyond the normal 02/ KARA has been deeply involved with levels of community action in preserv - Projects that have benefited from the the community. ing, protecting, or improving Toronto Trees and Parks Foundation IMAGE/ KARA the environment. include: Lung Cancer Canada Grove, 03/ Accepting the award for KARA, Ken Schwenger and Bob Klein Market Lane Park, University Avenue IMAGE/ Douglas Pinnell The Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation Beautification, the Agincourt Community 04/ Arthur Beauregard (left) receiving award (TPTF), established in 2002, is a non-profit, Services Association, the Black Creek on behalf of the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation, from Arnis Budrevics charitable public foundation dedicated to Conservation Project, the Historic Garrison IMAGE/ Douglas Pinnell enhancing Toronto’s parks. Its intent is to Creek Watershed Greening Project, and OALA .06 24 Awards

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OALA CARL BORGSTROM AWARD FOR SERVICE Employed in a consulting firm north of TO THE ENVIRONMENT: Toronto specializing in tree preservation, Marc Willoughby, OALA restoration, and creek stabilization proj - ects, it’s his long list of volunteer activities This award is given to a landscape that led to this award: a director of the architect or a landscape architectural Ontario Urban Forest Council, an advisor group to recognize and encourage to LEAF (Local Enhancement and special or unusual contributions to the Appreciation of Forests), designer of the sensitive, sustainable design for human San Lorenzo Latin American Community use of the environment. This award Centre’s naturalization project, co-founder is named in honour of Carl Borgstrom of the Ecological Resource Group, plant who, of all OALA’s founders, was rescue coordinator for the North American the most actively in tune with the Native Plant Society, volunteer labourer natural landscape. and advisor for the North Toronto Memorial Heritage Community Garden…This partial list provides a glimpse into his passion and commitment: 03 “I try to be a conduit between the volun - Marc Willoughby cuts a striking figure, teer sector and the profession.” dressed in his regular army fatigues and a crisp white shirt from Goodwill. Not surpris - ingly, he tends to stand out in a crowd. As he took to the stage to accept the Carl Borgstrom Award for Service to the Environment, he said, “People like me don’t usually receive these kinds of awards.” While he’s not one to seek out the limelight, he is one to seek out volun - 02 teer opportunities where his combined skills as a landscape architect and certified arborist can be put to use for the common 01-04/ Marc Willoughby's long list of volunteer activities are all centred around good: “Landscape architects should aspire enhancement of the environment through community involvement. to be altruists. Big-picture issues such as IMAGES/ Marc Willoughby declining biodiversity values, habitat loss, 05/ Marc Willoughby and global climate change must be para - IMAGE/ Douglas Pinnell mount in all design decisions,” is how he sums up his guiding credo. 05 OALA .06 25 Awards

OALA PUBLIC PRACTICE AWARD: In her acceptance speech, Elyse noted Elyse Parker, OALA that she’d always been taught that “a good public servant doesn’t get acknowl - This award recognizes the outstanding edged,” but the audience at the awards leadership of a member of the profes - luncheon was clearly keen to honour sion in public practice who promotes her outstanding leadership with and enhances landscape architecture sustained applause. by working for improved understanding and appreciation of the work of land - scape architects in both public and pri - OALA HONORARY MEMBER AWARD: Philip Weinstein vate practice. The Honorary category of membership Elyse has recently been appointed as is for non-landscape architects the the Director of the Public Realm Unit in the OALA Council wishes to recognize for Transportation Services Division of the City outstanding contributions in their own of Toronto. With this appointment, Elyse will fields to improve the quality of natural continue her work advocating for, and fos - and human environments. tering support for, the continued advance - ment of the practice of landscape archi - Philip is recognized as one of Ontario’s tecture in the public sector. leading physical planners. He has spent the last four decades as the principal designer Over the past five years, Elyse has led the of new communities, waterfronts, town cen - City’s Clean and Beautiful Secretariat tres, and campuses across North America 07 Section, responsible for identifying and and was recognized by his peers in plan - Johnson to David Leinster. (Indeed, he delivering projects that renew public ning when he was made a Fellow of the noted in his acceptance speech that David spaces with the support of the people who Canadian Institute of Planners in 2005. live and work in those areas. Residential Leinster has called him a “closet land - scape architect,” to which Weinstein areas, public walkways, roadways, busi - Philip has always had a deep commitment responded, “you will certainly see me at ness areas, and park entrances have to collaboration with landscape architects. all your parades.”) been cleaned up and greened up with He has worked in partnership with other neighbourhood gardens and brightened professional disciplines all of his career, He has said that he would not know how to with community art. beginning at Project Planning, then form - plan a community without the collaboration ing Johnson Sustronk Weinstein, and then of landscape architects as well as the contri - Since 2005, Elyse has worked with more as founding partner of The Planning butions of engineers, architects, biologists, than 200 private sector partners to pro - Partnership. Philip speaks with great admi - marine engineers, and market analysts. mote the inclusion of landscape architec - ration of the landscape architects who ture in public projects and the retention have had a profound influence on this At 75 years old, Philip attacks every project of landscape architects as project leads work, from Macklin Hancock to Brad and members of inter-disciplinary teams. with the same vigour that he did at 25. He is passionate about design and is said to outlast most of his current (and more jun - ior) partners at design workshops, where he works tirelessly with residents teaching them about the principles of community design. Without hesitation, Philip does whatever it takes to design the best solu - tion for his clients.

06/ Elyse Parker accepting the OALA Public Practice Award

IMAGE/ Douglas Pinnell

07/ Philip Weinstein is now an honorary member of the OALA.

IMAGE/ Douglas Pinnell

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In this excerpt from his forth - coming book, Landscape Architecture in Canada , Ron Williams writes about Ontario’s remarkable landscape projects of the 1930s

01/ Art-déco garden, Parkwood, Oshawa

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02/ Oakes Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls

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03/ Art-déco bridge, Hamilton

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TEXT BY RON WILLIAMS The greening of Steel City In Hamilton, Ontario, the 30s saw the realization of a third great The world Depression of the 1930s caused devastation throughout botanic garden, which also owed its existence to the efforts of a Canada, and it did not spare the practitioners of landscape architec - highly dedicated innovator, Thomas Baker McQuesten (1882-1948), ture. But, paradoxically, the troubled decade from 1929 to 1939 pro - a longtime Hamilton resident who had become a lawyer and city vided us with many of our best gardens and public spaces. councillor. In 1928, before the economic storm broke, McQuesten, then a member of Hamilton’s Parks Board, had already set in motion It was inevitable that the economic crisis would have an impact on a long-term plan for the development of the city’s North-West the “design professions”—architecture, landscape architecture, city Entrance , located at a dramatic site where the waters of a vast planning, engineering, and interior design. Members of these disci - marshland—Cootes Paradise—swept through Burlington Heights, plines are, as a rule, among the first to be affected by economic a narrow crest of glacial origin, on their way to Burlington Bay, the change. The experiences of Humphrey Carver (1902-1995), a young western extremity of Lake Ontario. British architect newly arrived in Toronto in April 1930, provides a strik - ing example. While seeking work in the city’s architectural offices, McQuesten and his colleagues sponsored a design competition he and his former classmate visited a succession of offices bearing for the entire entrance sector. The plan of Wilson, Bunnell, and land - signs on their doors that said the owners had gone out for lunch. scape architect Carl Borgstrom won the competition, followed by the In fact, the majority were to be “out to lunch” for seven years. Carver propositions of Harold and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb, two landscape was lucky to find a job in a city planning / landscape architecture architects of English origin who had arrived in Toronto in 1911 and firm, Wilson, Bunnell and Borgstrom, an interdisciplinary office that subsequently established both a successful and prolific landscape was still benefiting from a backlog of work inherited from the real- architecture firm and a major supplier of plant material, Sheridan estate developments of the prosperous 1920s. But as the year 1930 Nurseries. John Lyle, a distinguished architect from Hamilton, placed advanced, the office’s activities gradually declined. Employees third. The Parks Board decided to combine the ideas of the three departed one after the other, often leaving to try their chances in winning contestants. Using job-creation funds made available at the other fields. Finally, in the summer of 1931, the three partners had to beginning of the Depression, they proceeded, in 1930-31, with the close down their firm and move on in different directions. Only one first stage of the work, a Rock Garden situated in an old quarry below project remained to be completed, and the partner in charge of it, the crest. Construction of this garden followed the designs of Carl Borgstrom, asked Carver to act as his associate in carrying it out. Borgstrom, who carried through the project with his new associate Humphrey Carver. A native of Sweden, Borgstrom had worked in the During the previous decade, many landscape architects had special - great gardens of Europe before immigrating to Canada after World ized in the design of elaborate private gardens and country estates. War I; Carver admired the veteran landscape architect’s deep under - The arrival of the Depression brought ruin to some of their clients, standing of plants and trees, and his capacity to integrate his projects and the majority were no longer able to spend large sums of money to the natural environment. on non-essential projects. The luxury market did not entirely disap - pear, but it was clear that, as a main support of landscape architec - Borgstrom’s “naturalistic” design consisted of a sequence of pools tural practices, the “country house era” was finished. Landscape and streams, set among massive blocks of limestone at the bottom designers and their offices had to turn their talents, finely honed by of the former quarry. He contrasted the vivid colours of bulbs, peren - designing large-scale residential gardens for demanding clients, to nials, and annuals with a solid green backdrop of large conifers, other projects. Against all odds, there were such projects. planted on the slopes. This stunning garden constituted the first stage of the Royal Botanical Gardens, one of the great gardens Great public gardens of Canada. As the gravity of the Depression deepened, governments reacted rapidly, providing money, food, and other goods to families whose Parks and civic projects: weapons against unemployment breadwinners were unemployed. Governments at all levels also “Put people to work!” was the motto of the 1930s, and public land - responded to the crisis by creating public work projects to fight scape projects provided a crucial means of responding to the chal - unemployment; other projects were the fruit of private philanthropy. lenge, since they could employ large numbers of people who did not Among the most important of these initiatives, created in the decade have a specific training. Canadian landscape architects were quick to of the 30s thanks to the vision of some remarkable civic leaders, turn their hands to such public projects in the 30s. were several of the country’s great botanic gardens. These included the renowned Montreal Botanical Garden, founded by frère Marie- Gordon Joseph Culham , a Canadian “graduate” of the Olmsted Victorin (1885-1944) and laid out by Henry Teuscher (1891-1984) from Brothers office at Brookline, Massachusetts, worked throughout this the New York Botanic Garden. Another magnificent public garden period on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, located was inaugurated in the 30s in western Canada, on the frontier on both sides of the Thames River in London. His designs for the between Manitoba and North Dakota: the International Peace campus landscape followed the tradition of the English pastoral Garden , initiated by Dr. Henry J. Moore, a professor of horticulture garden, which married well with the grey-stone buildings in “colle - at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. giate gothic” style that he located in picturesque fashion on elevated sites, enjoying views toward the wooded corridor of the river. Besides placing the buildings at Western, Culham oversaw the Embers in the .06 28 Shadows

management of trees on the site, directed reforestation, erosion con - trol, and the opening of perspectives, among other tasks. He played a determining role in the creation of the beautiful “natural” site of the contemporary university. His fellow landscape architect Edwin Kay ,a native of England who had worked in the Dunington-Grubb office before setting up his own practice, designed the Alexander Muir Commemorative Gardens in Toronto in 1934, on the occasion of that city’s centennial celebrations: a symmetrical composition of stone ter - races that framed planting beds of colourful perennials and annuals, entirely paid for by donations from the general public. Removed from its original location in 1951-52 and rebuilt on a new site, farther north, this garden’s formal terraces step down from Yonge Street, leading to one of the many ravines that dissect the broad plateau of the Toronto urban area and creating an elegant transition between the geometric forms of the city and the irregular topography and shaded privacy of the ravine landscape. 04

Thomas McQuesten extends his mission Besides playing a key role in creating Hamilton’s Royal Botanical Gardens, Thomas B. McQuesten contributed to many other institu - tions of the city of his birth, particularly McMaster University . In 1928, he succeeded in attracting the university from Toronto, its original location, by offering the institution a large site at the edge of the slope that descends to Cootes Paradise. The construction of the new campus proceeded throughout the 30s according to a master plan prepared by landscape architects Dunington-Grubb and Stensson; their plan located the university buildings around a great central space, and merged the campus smoothly into the landscape of the Royal Botanical Gardens. The new name of the venerable firm sig - nalled the presence of a new partner, Vilhelm « Bill » Stensson, son of the chief horticulturist at Sheridan Nurseries. Stensson, who had stud - ied landscape architecture at Harvard, was like a son to the Dunington-Grubbs, who had no children of their own.

Another component of Thomas B. McQuesten’s vast plan for the transformation of Hamilton illustrates how, for one brief moment in the 1920s and 1930s, Canadian bridges went beyond their usual functional and practical role to become monuments of civic design. Among the best examples of this trend was Hamilton’s high-level bridge at the dramatic north-west entrance to the city. Built in 1931-32 05 following the drawings of engineer E. M. Proctor and architect John Lyle , the Art-déco style bridge had originally been part of the overall entrance plan proposed by Carl Borgstrom in the 1927 competition. As it passed from crest to crest, the main span of the bridge was framed by four great stone pylons that dramatized the approach to the city; the broad views opening up to extensive bodies of water, on both sides of the span, were perfectly exploited by the designers.

Following his many contributions to the urban design of Hamilton, 04/ University of Western Ontario, London McQuesten extended his ambitions to the provincial arena. He IMAGE/ Courtesy Ron Williams became Minister of Transport for Ontario in 1934 and immediately 05/ Oakes Garden, Niagara Falls began a series of road-building projects that included the Queen IMAGE/ Courtesy Ron Williams Elizabeth Way and a series of international bridges to the United States. Job creation was obviously a main goal of these projects, but McQuesten also aspired to create permanent civic works of high quality. He assembled his regular team of consultants, a sort of “repertory company” of environmental design, to carry out the work: Embers in the .06 29 Shadows

landscape architects Borgstrom and Carver and Dunington-Grubb and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb, the prestigious leaders of the group, as and Stensson , architect William Somerville, a protégé of John Lyle, well as their partner Bill Stensson; Carl Borgstrom and his associate and the sculptress Elizabeth Wyn Wood, among others. Named to Humphrey Carver; Gordon Culham and Edwin Kay; and two special - the Niagara Parks Commission, McQuesten sponsored many other ists in residential gardens, Helen M. Kippax, who excelled in the projects including the restoration of historic forts from the War of 1812- design of the small-scale landscape, and Frances Steinhoff, past- 1814, and the rebuilding of the old river road as a scenic route for master in planting design. automobiles —the Niagara Parkway —on a linear route next to the gorge. McQuesten’s initiatives also included planting along the park - It was a very diverse group in terms of age, nationality of origin— way, the creation of an arboretum, and the founding of the Niagara several members were born in Great Britain, two were of Swedish Horticultural School to ensure the expert maintenance of the heritage—and in educational background. The presence of three Commission’s extensive park and garden system. women among the nine founders is significant. Many women had been involved in garden design since the 19th century, as both ama - Directly opposite Niagara Falls and oriented so as to take maximal teurs and professionals. Gardening and landscape architecture advantage of spectacular views of the cataracts, the Oakes Garden were, in fact, among the first disciplines to open their doors to Theatre (1936) was certainly the pièce de résistance of this garden women, who hastened to take advantage of the opportunity. The network. Built on a site given to the Parks Commission by rich indus - early 20th century witnessed the founding of three American institu - trialist Sir Harry Oakes, the theatre was first proposed by Borgstrom tions that offered specialized training to women in these fields; one and Carver; but the fluid and natural layout that might have been of them, the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, Gardening expected from these consultants was very far from the design finally and Horticulture for Women, established in Massachusetts in 1901, carried out by Dunington-Grubb and Stensson. The central element was the alma mater of both Helen Kippax and Frances Steinhoff, as of the theatre was a grand sloping lawn, focused on the falls and well as their contemporary Frances McLeod (1914-1992), generally framed by numerous pavilions, colonnades, pedestals, urns, stair - known by her married name, Frances Blue . cases, and other familiar site elements, all carried out magnificently in a style inspired by the Italian Renaissance. The association expanded rapidly into Quebec and other parts of Ontario, eventually welcoming members from all regions of the Last gardens of the “country-house era” country. In 2009, its 75th anniversary year as the national association A few owners of large private gardens who were less affected of landscape architects, the CSLA counts some 1,500 members personally by the Depression accelerated the realization of their across the country in a federation of ten provincial, territorial, and gardens so as to help maintain employment for residents of their regional associations. regions. This was true of Mrs. Elsie Reford at her Jardins de Métis on the Gaspé Peninsula, and of Colonel R. Samuel McLaughlin, Conclusion magnate of the Canadian automobile industry, at his Parkwood Concurrently with these landscape projects in Ontario, work of an domain at Oshawa, Ontario. The latter garden bears witness to the equally high standard was being carried out all across the country talent of several eminent landscape designers who worked on dif - during this difficult period. In examining the achievements of ferent areas of the gardens over several decades, beginning in 1915. Canadian landscape architects during the Depression era, we see In 1935-1936, architect John Lyle transformed the south-western cor - that the profession, like society in general, reacted rapidly and effec - ner of the site, previously a cow pasture and equestrian ground, into tively to a critical situation. In spite of all the difficulties, there seems to a formal aquatic garden. This garden is a masterpiece of the “Art- have been a spirit of collaboration and mutual support; and, against déco” style mastered by Lyle. Its curved forms, stylized decoration all odds, this period brought forth some of our most impressive works that recalls natural elements, and symmetrical disposition of of landscape architecture, in both aesthetic and social terms. Let us sculptures and clipped conifers make it almost unique among hope that the current economic difficulties will not present challenges Canadian gardens. as severe as those of the Depression; but that whatever they are, we will respond to them with the same energy and originality as did our An organized profession professional forebears of the 1930s. The Depression furnished the motivation and backdrop for Canadian landscape architects to join together in creating a professional asso - For a list of references for this article, visit the Ground section ciation, a crucial landmark in the development of the profession in of the OALA website (www.oala.ca). Canada. By the middle of the 1930s, there was a sort of “critical BIO/ RON WILLIAMS IS A FOUNDING PARTNER OF THE MONTREAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN FIRM WAA (WILLIAMS, ASSELIN, ACKAOUI mass” of landscape architects in the Toronto-Hamilton region; they AND ASSOCIATES) AND A PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL. ON AUGUST 13, 2009, knew each other and liked to get together; some shared common HE WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN A PANEL DISCUSSION, “AUTHORS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE,” AT THE OALA/CSLA CONGRESS. ideas concerning the social and political evolution of the country. Several of these professional colleagues met regularly in the garden of a restaurant on Bloor Street in Toronto, the “Diet Kitchen.” Their informal meetings led to the founding of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and Town Planners, officially constituted at a meeting held in Toronto’s Royal York Hotel in March 1934. 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WATERFRONToronto Design Competitions & RFP's = Catalysts for City Building

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The transformation of Toronto's waterfront 3 HTO 9 West Don Lands Precinct Plan 2003 Design Competition 2004 RFP is under way, with numerous landscape 2007 Opened 2011 + Opens architecture projects leading the regener - Size: 22,300 m2 Size: 32.4 hectares ation. New, sustainable neighbourhoods, Design: Design: Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagiste, Urban Design Associates, visionary design, and continuous public Janet Rosenberg + Associates du Toit Allsopp Hillier space along the lake are set to revitalize Awards: Awards: the city. It's hard to keep track of all the CSLA Regional Honour Award 2005 Toronto Architecture and Urban activity in this ambitious period of city Gold Medal - Design Exchange Design Award *Not WATERFRONToronto Project building, so this map breaks out many 10 Cherry Street Streetscape 4 York Quay 2005 RFP (but not all) of the exciting projects recently Promenade 2011 Opens opened or coming our way. Sites in 2003 RFP Size: 4 street blocks 2006 Opened 1 their current state are linked to Size: 4000 m2 Design: Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, WATERFRONToronto's rendering of Design: The Planning Partnership Toronto's future lakeshore. Michael Kirkland, architectsAlliance, 11 Master Plan for Lake Ontario Park BIO/ NANCY CHATER, OALA, AND LESLIE MORTON, MBTW Group 2006 International Design Competition ASSOCIATE MEMBER, ARE MEMBERS OF THE 2007 Master Plan Completed GROUND EDITORIAL BOARD. 5 Sugar Beach Size: 390 hectares, 37 kilometres of shoreline 2007 Invited Design Competition 2010 Opens Design: 1 Queen’s Quay Revitalization Size: 4000 m2 Field Operations, Schollen & Company 2006 International Design Competition 2011 Opens Design: Awards: Size: 1.1 kilometres Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagiste 2009 CSLA National Honour Award Design: 6 East Bayfront Water’s Edge Promenade 12 Lower Don Lands West 8, du Toit Allsopp Hillier 2006 International Design Competition 2007 Open International Design Competition 2012 Opens 2009 Master Plan Awards: Size: 660 metres TBD Opens 2007 Toronto Urban Design Award for Size: 47.8 hectares Central Waterfront Masterplan Design: 2007 Toronto Urban Design Award for West 8, du Toit Allsopp Hillier Design: Harbourfront Water’s Edge Revitalization Michael Van Valkenberg Associates 2007 CSLA Certificate of Excellence for Toronto 7 Sherbourne Park Waterfront’s Aquatic Habitat 2007 Open RFP Awards: Restoration Strategy 2010 Opens 2008 Toronto Urban Design Award for 2007 CSLA National Merit for Central Size: 1.47 hectares Sustainable Development for Lower Waterfront’s Design Competition Don Lands Design Design: 2008 Royal Architecture Institute of Canada’s 2 Water’s Edge Promenade (Central) Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, The Planning Sustainable Development Award 2006 International Design Competition Partnership, Koetter Kim and Associates 2008 ASLA Honour in Analysis and Planning 2010 + Opens for Port Lands Estuary Size: 1.9 kilometres 8 East Bayfront Precinct Plan 2004 RFP 13 Cherry Beach Improvements Design: 2012 + Opens 2002 RFP West 8, du Toit Allsopp Hillier Size: 22.3 hectares 2004 Opened Awards: Design: Design: 2009 CSLA National Merit Award for Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, Schollen & Company Spadina Wavedeck Koetter Kim and Associates, 2009 Spadina Wavedeck Nominated for Urban Strategies Inc. 14 Don River Park Brit’s Insurance Design Award 2006 Open RFP 2009 ASLA Honor Award for General Design Awards: 2010 Opens for Spadina Wavedeck 2005 Boston Society of Architects Millo Von Size: 7.3 hectares Multke Award for Urban Design 2005 Congress for the New Urbanism Design: Charter Award Michael Van Valkenberg Associates, 2006 CSLA Regional Honour Award The Planning Partnership, Ken Greenberg Catalyst Map .06 31

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Recognition PROVINCIAL awards NATIONAL awards Ontario Association 2010 National Urban of Landscape Architects Design Awards and The OALA holds an annual awards An Urban Design Awards program program, with six different categories has been established by the Royal of awards adjudicated by a committee Architectural Institute of Canada to Opportunity of landscape architects: recognize individuals, organizations, firms, and projects that have contributed to the quality of life and sustainability Provincial, national, in Canadian cities. Deadline for entry: TBD, call for submis - and international sions to begin in Fall 2009, and entry deadline will likely be February 2010 awards offer land - Website: www.raic.org Contact Information: scape architects the Chantal Charbonneau Honours and Awards Manager / chance to promote Deadline for entry: TBD, call for College of Fellows and RAIC Foundation nominations to go out in January 2010 Coordinator their projects and Website: www.oala.ca Contact Information: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada gain recognition Karen Savoie Institut royal d’architecture du Canada [email protected] 330 – 55, rue Murray St., Ottawa ON K1N 5M3

TEXT BY ALEXANDRA HOSSFELD, Landscape Ontario Awards of Excellence 613-241-3600 ext. 214 ASSOCIATE MEMBER, OALA Each year, Landscape Ontario members submit projects, designs, and displays to Canadian Society of Landscape the Landscape Ontario Awards of Architects Awards Excellence. The annual competition The awards program of the CSLA includes features more than forty categories of awards of both excellence and recognition. entries judged by a panel of horticulture industry experts. Awards are given in Awards of Recognition include: the following categories: The Schwabenbauer Award Construction Community Service Awards Maintenance Lifetime Achievement Award Design President’s Award Interior Plantscaping Student Award of Merit Garden Centre Teaching Award Growers The CSLA Awards of Excellence recognize Deadline for entry: October 5, 2009 and encourage excellence in all aspects Website: www.loawards.com of the landscape architecture profession. Contact Information: The awards are offered at both the nation - Kristen McIntyre al and regional levels. 1-800-265-5656 ext. 321 [email protected] Deadline for entry: TBD, late January 2010 Website: www.csla.ca Contact Information: Alan Tate [email protected] Awards .06 33 Corner

Design Exchange Awards American Society of Landscape and sustainability. Eligible submissions The Design Exchange Awards, presented Architects Awards: Professional and should have an emphasis on the develop - by Canadian Business magazine, promote Student Awards ment and implementation of measures to Canadian design excellence and recog - Each year, the ASLA Professional Awards achieve CO2-reduction, energy conserva - nize the critical role of design in all types of honour the best in landscape architecture tion, renewable energy sources, recycling, organizations including commercial enti - from around the globe, while the ASLA sustainability, and improvements to the ties (large and small businesses), not-for- Student Awards provide a glimpse into the quality of life and environment. profit organizations, and the public sector. future of the profession. The categories The Awards celebrate the success stories include awards in the following, and are Eligible entries from architecture/urban achieved through close partnerships awarded every year at the ASLA annual planning/landscape architecture include: between clients and designers. The DXAs meeting (Washington, 2010): skyscrapers, offices, homes, green build - judge design by results, balancing func - ings, green spaces, factories, reforestation tion, aesthetics, and economic success. General Design projects, restorations, and renovations that Residential Design achieve sustainable living, working, and Deadline for entry: TBD, late August Analysis and Planning recreating environments. or September 2009 Research Website: www.designexchange.org Communications Deadline for entry: TBD Contact Information: The Landmark Award Website: www.europeanarch.eu Kristine Williamson The Student Community Service Award Contact Information: Professional Programs Coordinator Student Collaboration [email protected] 416-216-2120 [email protected] Deadline for entry: TBD, February 2010 Peter Joseph Lenné Prize of Berlin for professional awards, May 2010 for The Peter Joseph Lenné Prize of Berlin is a student awards competition of ideas for garden and land - INTERNATIONAL awards Website: www.asla.org scape architecture and for the planning of Contact Information: [email protected] open spaces and landscaping. The prize International Federation of Landscape is aimed especially at young landscape Architects (IFLA) Student Design International Architecture Awards: architects, planners, scientists, architects, Competition Distinguished Building and Urbanism and artists who are in training or are This competition challenges students of Awards Program employed in the above-mentioned special landscape architecture to explore the IFLA The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of areas. The award is intended to support World Congress theme of sustainability in Architecture and Design, together with The the professional development of young landscape through new visions for the European Center for Architecture Art Design people and to promote new ideas and future. Participants are invited to select a and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts planning approaches in the design and site that challenges the concept of sustain - Press, Ltd., have organized the International planning of open spaces. ability and to develop designs which Architecture Awards to honour the best, investigate, interrogate, challenge, and new significant buildings and landscape Deadline for entry: August 10, 2009 propose sustainable options to the site and planning projects designed and/or built Website: conditions. The theme is “Green infrastruc - around the world by architects, landscape www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/aktuell/ ture: landscape, infrastructure and people architects, and urban planners practising wettbewerbe/lenne/index_en.shtml for tomorrow.” The design proposals nationally and internationally. Contact Information: should also reveal something about the Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung social, cultural, economic, and/or political Deadline for entry: December 1, 2009 (Senate Department for Urban Development) conditions related to the site’s context. Website: www.chi-athenaeum.org/ or Abteilung Stadt- und Freiraumentwicklung www.europeanarch.eu (City and Open Space Planning Division) Deadline for entry: August 18, 2009 Contact Information: “Lenné-Preis” (Lenné Prize) Website: www.46ifla2009.com.br [email protected] Am Köllnischen Park 3 Contact Information: 10173 Berlin ABAP - Associação Brasileira de Green Good Design Awards 2010 Tel.: + 49 30 9025 1721 Arquitetos Paisagistas Green Good Design’s goal is to bestow Fax: + 49 30 9025 1604 Brazilian Society of Landscape Architects international recognition to those out - Peter-Joseph-Lenne- Rua Campevas, 115, conj, C - Perdizes standing individuals, companies, organi - [email protected] zations, governments, and institutions — CEP 05016-010 - São Paulo, Brasil BIO/ ALEXANDRA HOSSFELD, ASSOCIATE MEMBER, together with their products, services, pro - OALA, IS A RECENT GRADUATE OF THE BLA PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH. grams, ideas, and concepts —that have forwarded exceptional thinking and inspired greater progress toward health Technical .06 34 Corner

Irrigation Innovation On the Ground: Low-Volume Irrigation High-efficiency irrigation systems are equated with drip irrigation, but

TEXT BY NANCY CHATER, OALA a more accurate term is low-volume irrigation. Any system rated in gallons per hour (GPH) is low volume, while traditional rotor and Recent innovations in irrigation design indicate that delivering water spray systems are measured in gallons per minute (GPM). Drip lines to plants in creative, more sustainable ways is a burgeoning area can be combined with micro-spray heads and root watering systems within landscape architecture. Conserving water through the use of (RWS) equipment in low-volume systems. A newer generation of root low-volume irrigation systems is being coupled with plant selection bubbler, an RWS, is a capped, plastic woven cylinder of various that favours species requiring less water once established. At the lengths, set below grade to water trees and shrubs while also allow - same time, the source of water for irrigation is being reconsidered. ing oxygen into the root zone. Micro-spray heads are typically vulner - Instead of feeding plants potable water, which wastes the substan - able to breakage (they stay exposed all the time), but a recent hybrid tial energy required to treat and deliver it, landscape architects are by Rainbird, the XP Series ‘Xeri-Pops,’ used with XPCN Xerigation looking to alternate sources including harvested rainwater, other Pressure Compensating Nozzle, offers a micro-spray on a conven - forms of stormwater runoff, and splash-pad water. Renewed atten - tional pop-up base and delivers water at a GPH rate. tion to water budgets is simultaneously being driven by directives from municipalities and incentive from programs such as LEED While sub-surface drip irrigation is widely recognized as the most (Leadership in Energy Efficient Design) to contain runoff within a given efficient way to irrigate because it delivers water directly to the root project site and allow for infiltration and even treatment at the site zone, there are some challenges to widespread application. Drip scale. Replacing aging infrastructure is hugely expensive and will tubing is more vulnerable to damage from maintenance and foot take decades; offsetting this cost by devising what is in effect alter - traffic because it is usually installed close to the surface. If accidental - nate water infrastructure that links stormwater treatment and irriga - ly cut, pressurized drip lines can flood an area. And, to date, drip sys - tion options has therefore come of age and confronts multi-discipli - tems have not been effective for use on lawns because the tiny nary design teams everywhere. grass roots penetrate and clog emitters.

However, some irrigation design consultants are proposing solu - tions. Lorne Haveruk of DH Water Management has been work - ing with low-volume systems for twenty years. His credits include the design of the low-volume system for the 2007 “Live Green, Live Smart Sustainable House,” the world’s first remodeled home to earn platinum LEED certification, and a larger-scale system for Bloorview Children’s Hospital in Toronto. Both projects combine rainwater harvested into below-grade cisterns with low-volume irrigation. Haveruk buries the 1/2” distribution tubing and the emit - ters 10-12” below grade (like conventional systems), then feeds spaghetti tubing to each plant, staked close to the trunk or stem, just above the surface of the soil, with a “bug cap” (which stops bugs and dirt from entering the line). This method works best in shrub beds or where plants are spaced about two feet apart. 01 Haveruk addresses the issue of accidental cutting of pressurized drip tubing by employing “pressure compensating on-line emit -

01/02/ Water features at Sherbourne Park ters” so the pressure in the spaghetti tubing leading to the plant is in Toronto will integrate functional systems, such as stormwater management, greatly reduced. If it is accidentally cut, the tubing will simply drip, with art and public narrative. not flood, and the system will keep working. Haveruk is also IMAGES/ Courtesy WATERFRONToronto experimenting with drip irrigation for turf, using line buried 10 cm below grade and a soil moisture sensor to aid in managing soil moisture levels, thus deterring turf roots from entering emitters. Technical .06 35 Corner

In the Playground: Splash-Pad Recycling The Planning Partnership is taking an innovative approach on some current projects with proposed re-use of splash-pad water for land - scape irrigation. At one of their Toronto condominium projects, 501 Adelaide, water falling on the splash pad is directed to a concrete cistern located in the parking garage. It is then re-used to irrigate selected areas through a low-volume drip irrigation system set in raised planters. The water is filtered but not treated. Re-use of har - vested water in general works best with sub-surface drip systems because it avoids the public health concerns about broadcasting untreated water into the air. Johanna Evers, OALA, of The Planning Partnership notes that space and budget constraints typically limit the size of cisterns, so not all the water generated by the splash pad can be stored. There is a check valve on the cistern so that if it runs dry, it will automatically top up with potable water. The beauty of the rela - 02 tionship between splash-pad water entering and irrigation water Another integrated stormwater treatment system using open water stor - exiting the cistern is that the splash pad will be in heaviest rotation age is under way at Sherbourne Park in Toronto, led by Phillips Farevaag just when irrigation is most needed—when it is hot and dry. Smallenberg with The Planning Partnership. Sherbourne Park includes a complex system designed by The Municipal Infrastructure Group (TMIG) in Storage, as Evers identifies, is probably the major stumbling block for which stormwater from the entire East Bayfront Precinct is collected and harvesting alternate sources of water for irrigation. Below-grade cis - conveyed first through a series of stormwater sediment settling tanks that terns are expensive because of the excavation, while above-grade run the length of the dock wall, under the West-8/DTAH designed prome - tanks are typically unsightly. In either case, space is an issue. It is dif - nade, from Jarvis to Parliament Slip. Adam Nicklin, OALA, of DTAH explains ficult to compete economically and logistically with relatively low-cost that the large settling tanks do triple-duty as support for the boardwalk potable water. At the residential or commercial site scale, the rule of and shoring-up of the dock wall. From the tanks, water is conveyed to the thumb is that rainwater costs about $1 per gallon, including storage. basement of a pavilion in Sherbourne Park, where it will be UV-disinfected Haveruk posits that, at present, rainwater does not pay for itself. using ultra-violet lamps. The disinfected water then travels through a Support will likely grow in areas where there are restrictions on use series of open water art features in Sherbourne Park before being dis - of potable water or where municipalities can’t deliver enough water charged into an open channel running the length of the park. Further at peak demand. Evers suggests that integrating storage into the biofiltration takes place before the water is finally discharged into Lake design is a key design challenge for landscape architects to address. Ontario. The design is intended to reveal the water process as a public narrative. After the UV treatment, some of the water is siphoned off to be Out in the Open: Integrated Stormwater Systems used in landscape irrigation, comprised of both sub-surface and spray- The challenge of water storage has been addressed on larger-scale head equipment. The UV treatment resolves any public health concerns sites by using open water bodies that double as both water treat - about using the water for irrigation and open water features. Similar to ment components and design elements, such as ponds and chan - UOIT, the project involves coordination among many players including nels. If the water is to be used for irrigation, treatment and water landscape architects, architects, mechanical, civil, structural, and geotech - quality issues come into play. The University of Ontario Institute for nical engineers, and various City agencies, including the parks depart - Technology (UOIT) campus, with landscape design by du Toit Allsopp ment and public health. Hillier (DTAH), was designed to take stormwater “off the grid.” It includes an integrated system of stormwater collection from parking On the Books: Regulating Non-Potable Water lots, which is then fed through vegetated bioswales into a linked Use of non-potable water for irrigation in Ontario falls into a grey series of storm ponds, scupper bays, and stepped linear wetlands. area when it comes to regulation. As Chris Le Conte of SMART Watering This system filters debris and improves water quality before the Systems, part of the Sherbourne Park team, explains, the Ontario water is ultimately discharged into Oshawa Creek. Water from Building Code (OBC) needs to catch up to the developments in irrigation rooftops is fed into a 250,000-litre cistern where it can be used for design and explicitly address a variety of water sources. At present, the irrigation of the central planted spaces . The irrigation component is OBC states only that harvested rainwater can be used for irrigation and still in the approval stage with the municipality of Oshawa. The physi - flushing toilets, but it does not address other classifications of recycled cal presence and details of the stormwater system form a major water such as stormwater runoff or greywater. The next review of the spatial narrative in the campus and celebrate the variations in water OBC is in 2011. level and volume associated with rainfall and dry spells. Yvonne Battista, OALA, of DTAH notes that on this project, the client was com - For more information on DH Water Management Services, mitted to investing in innovative infrastructure. The biggest hurdle visit www.dhwatermgmt.com; for SMART Watering Systems, was the extraordinary level of coordination and cooperation required visit www.smartwateringsystems.ca . of a multi-disciplinary team comprised of civil, mechanical, and struc - BIO/ NANCY CHATER, OALA, IS THE TECHNICAL CORNER COLUMNIST FOR GROUND tural engineers, architect, landscape architect, irrigation consultants, AND A MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD and ecologists to make new infrastructure work. Education .06 36 Corner Testing the Test A report on changes to the Landscape Architecture Registration Exam Education .06 37 Corner

TEXT BY DON NAYLOR, OALA

The role of the LARE (Landscape Architecture Registration Exam) In the past, a candidate could make an error on a question and is to test a candidate’s knowledge of the principles of landscape the result would be a failing grade. (A fail grade reflects an error architecture that relate directly to public health, safety, and wel - serious enough that the candidate is considered not minimally fare. Administered by CLARB (Council of Landscape Architectural competent to practise.) Although each vignette tests for more than Registration Boards), the exam is meant to test a candidate’s one criterion of knowledge, each vignette previously received only knowledge in a fair and effective manner. one grade for a total of four grades for the section. Thus, a candi - date could fail a question without receiving any recognition for In 2004, CLARB published the results of the professional Task their knowledge of other testing criteria offered by their solution. Analysis Survey of landscape architecture. The data collected by the survey provided “a body of knowledge” that CLARB uses to On the current Section E, each question is still based on realistic evaluate their exams and make necessary refinements to the circumstances, and marking (grading) is determined in accor - content in order to ensure that relevant and current subject dance with the LARE reference manual and professional prac - matter is being tested. The survey also allows CLARB to identify tice standards. The most significant change has occurred in the the areas of practice that are the most universal and broadly assessment of the candidate’s performance. based. This information is critical in determining the weighting of content within the LARE. A total of eight grades are scored, two per vignette. While this methodology does not eliminate the prospect of a failing grade on Having had the privilege of attending many grading sessions the exam, it does prevent a candidate from being penalized for over the years and participating on both Section C and E Exam being less successful on a specific aspect of a problem. If a candi - Committees through 2002, I agreed in January 2009 to attend the date is stronger in one of the categories than the others, they will grading session in Greenville, South Carolina, and was assigned have an opportunity to demonstrate their full knowledge over the to Section E: Grading and Drainage. Having been away from the course of the four vignettes. process for five years, I was not anticipating any significant changes despite the fact that over the years, member boards, The other benefit is to those candidates who are unsuccessful in on behalf of their candidates, have expressed their opinions on their first attempt. Over the course of completing the four vignettes, all aspects of the LARE, the most common being the perceived it becomes very clear where a candidate’s broader knowledge degree of difficulty, low pass rates, testing criteria, and cost. lies and where improvement may be needed. This new evaluation methodology will improve the exam administrator’s ability to com - I am pleased to report that there are clear improvements to municate the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate with both the exam and the grading criteria. This is not to say that greater accuracy. the exam is now easier or harder than what I remember. The exam tests for the same general content as it always has, but The process of developing effective exam questions and creating now there is a process that recognizes that Grading and fair and meaningful evaluation criteria is a challenging task. CLARB Drainage, while interrelated, are stand-alone technical disci - continues to respond effectively to our changing times. Landscape plines and that both are worthy of evaluation on their own mer - architects must maintain high practice standards and our registra - its within each of the four graphic vignettes. The first two prob - tion exam must be a reflection of these standards. lems test a candidate’s knowledge of Conceptual Grading and Water Conveyance. A correct solution must demonstrate a can - I commend CLARB and the many individuals who volunteer their didate’s understanding of the protection and management of time to this essential process—a process that continues to define our land resources as well as water resources. The third and fourth professional role in the context of public health, safety, and welfare. problems test for three-dimensional thinking and the finer BIO/ DON NAYLOR, OALA, IS FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL OF DON NAYLOR & ASSOCIATES LTD., BASED IN BRAMPTON. aspects of grading. Candidates must show an understanding of the relationship between landscape architecture and other consulting disciplines. Notes .06 38

Notes: festivals As it enters its tenth year, the International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de A Metis/Reford Gardens on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, Quebec, presents an ambitious program of innovative gar - Miscellany dens by leading international designers. Of the 18 gardens in this year’s festival, six are new. They were jury-selected from more of News than 125 proposals received from teams in 17 coun tries. Jane Hutton, OALA, and Adrian Blackwell, both of Toronto, comprise and one of the six teams selected for this year’s event. Their winning entry, Dymaxion Sleep , is a topographic structure of nets that sus - Events pends visitors above a garden of aromatic mints: plants are distributed in regions 03 defined by pungency; orientation is gained by smell rather than sight. Other new gardens have been created by teams from London (UK), Montreal, New York City, and Rougemont, Switzerland.

Along with the six new gardens, eleven gardens from past editions of the festival will be reinvigorated for this 10th anniversary, and another garden—Claude Cormier’s iconic Blue Stick Garden first presented in 2000—returns as a permanent installa - tion. Opening on June 27, 2009, the International Garden Festival runs until October 4, 2009. For more information, visit www.refordgardens.com. 01

01/ Round Up (d'aprés Monet) by Legge-Lewis-Legge

IMAGE/ Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens

02/ Bon arbre au bon endroit by NIPpaysage

IMAGE/ Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens 04 03/ Bascale by Cédule 40

IMAGE/ Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens

04/ Poule mouillée by A4 05/ Jane's Walk citizen-led neighbourhood tour IMAGE/ Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens IMAGE/ Centre for City Ecology

06/ John Carley and Victoria Lister Carley

IMAGE/ Victoria Lister Carley

07/ Blue Spruce, Picea pungens

IMAGE/ © Gerry Jenkison

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05 07 walking art

There’s a lot of buzz in Toronto these days Botanical art—sometimes described as a about walking. The second annual Jane’s marriage of art and science—has a long Walk, a series of citizen-led neighbour - tradition, dating back thousands of years. hood tours held in May in honour of Jane In 2001, a group of artists working in the Jacobs, was a resounding success with 117 tradition of botanical illustration formed tours and 5,000 participants. As well, Botanical Artists of Canada (BAC), a not- City Council recently approved a Toronto for-profit group that organizes exhibitions Walking Strategy. And to round out all of and public lectures. “Trees: From Roots to this walking-related activity, Toronto’s Crown,” a juried show of work by BAC Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division members celebrating arboreal plant forms, 06 recently published an innovative walking will be on exhibit from November 4-15 at map, “Exploring Toronto’s Parks and The Papermill Gallery (Todmorden Mills, 67 honours Trails,” and launched it at the city’s first Pottery Road) in Toronto. For more informa - Walking Information Fair. Project lead Jerry tion, visit www.botanicalartistsofontario.org. Congratulations to Victoria Lister Carley, Belan, OALA, coordinated the map, work - OALA, who, with her husband, John ing with numerous community groups, Carley, was named this year’s Ontario including the People with Disabilities forests Field Ornithologist’s Celebrity Birders for Committee. Intended for leisure walkers, the OFO’s Baillie Birdathon (the oldest cyclists, and hikers, the map provides On November 12, 2009, the Ontario Urban sponsored bird count in North America, updated trail and route locations, major Forest Council holds its annual conference held annually in May). A portion of all trail access points and links, TTC coordi - and AGM at the University of Guelph pledges for the Carleys’ bird count has nates, accessible washroom locations, Arboretum. Landscape architects, plan - been donated to the OFO’s work to moni - and information about hard surface trails ners, consultants, developers, municipal tor and protect Ontario’s bird populations. for people with disabilities. It also includes workers, arborists, and interested citizens Along with her work as a landscape archi - details about off-leash areas and sun- will discuss protection of urban trees. For tect and involvement with the Ground safety. To order a copy of the map (also more information, visit www.oufc.org. Editorial Board, Victoria Carley has also available in download), visit volunteered on the boards of the Toronto www.toronto.ca/parks/maps/htm. and Region Conservation Authority and the Toronto Botanical Garden. Notes .06 40

awards in memoriam

Each year, visitors and industry contribu - JANINA STENSSON EH, MFA, OALA, FCSLA tors to Canada Blooms, the largest horti - 1919 – 2009 cultural show in Canada, held in Toronto in BY RYAN JAMES, OALA 08 March, vote for their favourite displays and gardens at the show. OALA members and Janina (n. Korkuc) Stensson was born in escarpment associate members received a number Warsaw, Poland. She came to Canada as of awards at Canada Blooms this year. an established landscape architect of inter - The Niagara Escarpment Commission’s The Judges Choice Garden winner was national renown, with fifteen years of prac - biennial Niagara Escarpment Achievement “Connected: The Canadian Cancer Society tice and membership with the International Award series recognizes individuals and Garden,” designed by Ronald Holbrook & Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). groups for outstanding accomplishments, Associates Landscape Architects Inc. An including exceptional design / landscap - honourable mention in this category was In 1957 she married Jesse Vilhelm Stensson ing in keeping with the tenets of the Niagara awarded to “Seasons,” designed by D.A. (1907-1972), who was a founding member Escarpment Plan, leading examples of com - Gracey & Associates Ltd. Ronald of the Canadian Society of Landscape munity efforts in environmental restoration Holbrook’s garden also won the S.G. Architects and another important figure in projects, and lifetime achievement for Ulbright Award for Outstanding Garden the early history of landscape architecture contributions to the Niagara Escarpment and the W.E. Bridgeman Award for Best in Ontario. Their marriage produced one Biosphere Reserve. Overall Use of Hard Landscape Elements. daughter, Ewa Gaede. D.A. Gracey & Associates also won an Artist, naturalist, and former Niagara award for Outstanding Use of Trees. In 1958 Ms. Stensson signed a Business Escarpment Commissioner Robert Stephen Robinson’s company Gardens for Partnership with her husband and Howard Bateman received the Niagara Living Inc. was honoured with three Dunington-Grubb (1881-1965). The firm, Escarpment Lifetime Achievement awards: Most Imaginative Garden Design, Dunington-Grubb and Stensson, was recog - award on April 16, 2009. Universal Access Award, and the Leslie L. nized as an outstanding professional prac - Solty Memorial Award for Best Overall tice that focused mostly on public and “Robert Bateman has been a steadfast Creativity in Garden Design. Graham commercial projects. Ms. Stensson and her supporter of the Niagara Escarpment Moore of the CIty of Toronto won two partners worked on many projects, includ - Commission since its establishment,” awards for the “Now and Then” garden: ing University Avenue in Toronto and Expo said NEC Chair Don Scott. “As a Niagara Outstanding Interpretation of the Show ’67 in Montreal. Escarpment Commissioner from 1973- Theme and the Garden Club of Toronto 1985, an early and lifelong champion of Award for Best Overall Use of Colour. In 1964 a proposal to design Expo ’67 came the Bruce Trail, Canada’s longest footpath, Robert Boltman of b sq. landscape design to Dunington-Grubb and Stensson and it and a devoted advocate of conservation studio won the Environmental Award for was agreed that Ms. Stensson would be the and land preservation, he inspires the his design, “Outside the Box.” sole representative of the firm to participate Niagara Escarpment Commission to con - in this project. Ms. Stensson worked in a tinue in its work of conserving the Niagara The OALA also adjudicated an awards consortium with Macklin Hancock and Escarpment Biosphere Reserve for future program at Canada Blooms. Judges this Austin Floyd. generations of Ontarians.” year were Alexander Budrevics, Shalini Ullal, and Christine Abe. An Award of From this time onward, Ms. Stensson The 2009 Niagara Escarpment Excellence went to Ronald Holbrook. became the sole principal of the firm as the Achievement Award series honours a Certificates of Honourable Mention went other two partners became more involved range of community groups, landowners, to Sander Freedman and Graham Moore. with their roles at Sheridan Nurseries. architects, and schools. For a full list of Certificates of Merit were awarded to 2009 Niagara Escarpment Achievement Robert Boltman and Christine Gracey. Through the course of her practice Ms. Award winners, please visit Stensson was also involved in teaching www.escarpment.org . at the University of Guelph and at Ryerson. The landscape drawings of Dunington- Grubb and Stensson are now located at the archives of the University of Guelph. Notes .06 41

practical and meaningful for our landscape. This approach has been pivotal in fostering new members the emergence of uniquely made-in-Canada thinking about landscape architecture. The Ontario Association of Landscape Architects is proud to recognize and wel - Our young profession is maturing as we come to following new full members to close the second chapter in the develop - the association: ment of Canadian landscape architecture. The pioneers of Chapter Two have done David Billham their bit. Ed’s retirement marks an extremely Henry Byma significant milestone in the maturation of the Melissa Cameron profession in Canada. We are now all work - Nancy Chater * 09 ing on Chapter Three. Sandra Cooke * Ashley DeWitt * retirement Stefan Fediuk * Peter Heyblom * ED FIFE: AN APPRECIATION Jane Hutton BY JOHN DANAHY, OALA magazines Robert Lau * Frank Mazzotta Professor Ed Fife is retiring after forty years In the midst of gloomy news about the Tara McCarthy of teaching landscape architecture at the economy’s impact on the publishing Melanie Morris University of Toronto. Ed has probably industry, the Toronto Botanical Garden Marc Nielsen * logged the longest and most continuous (TBG) has taken the bold step of launching Peter North * role in landscape architectural teaching of a fresh new look for Trellis , the TBG’s Patricia Sharpe any Canadian academic. The education of membership publication. Now in full colour Bradley Smith * almost half of Canadian-schooled land - on glossy paper (recycled and printed with N. Cambell Steuart * scape architects has been touched by Ed’s vegetable-based inks), the quarterly publi - Wayne Swanton unbroken contribution. Ed will continue to be cation features practical and inspirational Sara Taylor * involved in his famous, high-paced, urban articles, news, event listings, and how-to Li Wang * ecological boot camps for U of T’s students, tips. The revitalized Trellis , available free to Shawn Watters but he is stepping away from full-time work TBG members, was made possible in the studio. through a donation from the Toronto Master Gardeners. For more information Asterisk (*) denotes a Full Member not having custody and use of the Leading up to the 1960s, the first chapter in on joining the TBG, visit Association seal. the development of Canadian landscape www.torontobotanicalgarden.org. architecture was populated by people who either had to leave Canada to get a univer - 08/ Robert Bateman receiving the sity education in the profession or immi - Niagara Escarpment Lifetime grants who brought with them an education books Achievement Award from elsewhere. As we all know, everything IMAGE/ Niagara Escarpment Commission Anyone interested in the mix of native and changed in Canada during the era of Expo 09/ Ed Fife at his retirement introduced trees in urban settings will find celebration in May ‘67 and the Canadian centenary celebra - a recent book published by the Owen IMAGE/ Andre Beneteau tions. These events marked a sea-change Sound Field Naturalists useful. Exploring an in Canadian culture and identity. Urban Forest—Owen Sound's Heritage of Trees describes and illustrates 87 species, The era marked the formation of the first BLA all of which are likely to be found in any degree programs in Canada and the start of eastern Ontario city. Priced at $14.50 plus Ed’s transplanted contribution to nurturing a shipping, the book is available from fundamentally Canadian approach to land - Ginger Press ([email protected]) scape architecture. Ed’s style focuses on or from Joan Crowe ([email protected]). empowering students to think for themselves and pursue intelligent ideas that are both

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01 Beauty and the Bike Building a 02 better rack

01/ The bicycle stands designed Public art or street furniture? It's hard to tell by OCAD students push street furniture into the realm of urban the difference with these bike racks. As art. The winning entry, “Untitled,” is designed by Justin Rosete and sculptural as they are practical, they were Erica Mach. designed by Ontario College of Art and IMAGE/ Ontario College of Art and Design Design students as part of a competition to 02/ Second prize went to Kelli EV Hui and Olivier Mayrand for create bike stands for the redevelopment “Express(sion).” of a property at Queen and McCaul streets IMAGE/ Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. Thirty-five student teams sub - mitted their designs; ten were shortlisted as finalists; and five won prizes. First prize ($6,000 plus development and implemen - tation) went to Justin Rosete, second-year Industrial Design, and Erica Mach, second- year Drawing and Painting.