LANSDOWNE PARK PFS STUDIO

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Recreating and Reimagining a Civic Place Grandfather Teachings and trees, and PFS Studio created the winning scheme ethnobotanical plantings are incorporated in Win, Place, Show for an international design the demonstrations gardens and in planting competition to restore and transform the palettes throughout the park. long-neglected, yet beloved site of the former Central Canadian Exhibition into a new The park is designed with universal waterfront park and civic heart for , with accessibility measures embedded in all a seamless integration envisioned between aspects of its design including clear travel the re-imagined park with federal lands along paths, seating with backs, tactile wayfinding the parliamentary Queen Elizabeth Drive paving, and multi-lingual signage including and the adjacent UNESCO World Heritage Anishinaabemowin and braille. designated . Two significant integrated public art pieces, Lansdowne Park has remained true to Moving Surfaces and Uplift, provide additional this vision in restoring the site through animation to the park and convey stories about contemporary design language and careful the significance of water to the site and its preparation for its future, while honouring its relationship to the Canal. The programmable enduring legacy of place through exhibition, screen of Moving Surfaces can be used for display, and recreation. The associated public curated visual arts as part of the City arts realm masterplan integrates the park spaces program. with the fabric of the adjoining mixed use development and stadium refurbishment as Environmental Sustainability part of this ambitious city building project. The park design integrates sustainable objectives by retaining a 100-year storm Cultural and Social Sustainability discharge within the shallow basin of The park includes preservation of two the Great Lawn; user activated water for significant heritage buildings. The Aberdeen children’s play on the plaza is captured Pavilion remains the ‘jewel at the heart of for overnight irrigation of the lawn and the park’ and the great ‘tent’ for flexible surrounding plantings; LED lighting with a indoor programming. New thresholds and sophisticated control system, and highly surrounding plazas on all sides serve to efficient irrigation are used throughout the orientate all spaces on site through visual park; robust, handsome, durable materials connection with the Pavilion. The adaptive and finishes are employed throughout; runoff reuse of the relocated Horticulture Building from the Horticulture roof is captured for includes a teaching kitchen and community reuse in the demonstration gardens; a greatly hall, and now houses City offices to facilitate expanded tree canopy across the site, with the rich schedule of events which has returned substantial soil volumes in urban locations, to the site. provides pollution mitigation, with shade and habitat creation; and the integration of urban A series of interpretive elements embed agriculture makes reference to the agricultural stories of the Algonquin People on the site. heritage of the site and Ottawa Valley. The paving of the Square is inspired by an ash basketry pattern, a teaching circle in the Children’s Garden incorporates seating in the colours of the medicine wheel and is surrounded by text representing the Seven

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Alia Johnson, Catherine Phillips, Charlotte Li, Cherie Xiao, Dan Yang, Image Credits | Haewon Chun; ; Stephanie Iaeflice; PFS Studio; Erika Mashig, Hyaeinn Lee, Jia Li, Kirsten Trinity Development Group; Jones, Laura MacDonald, Margaret Shipley, Mandy Yu, Nathan Brightbill, Ning Han, Sophie MacNeill, Marta Pietrak,

PFS Subconsultant Team | Julian Smith Architects, Adaptive Reuse and Heritage Architect Jill Anholt Studio, Public Artist Jill Anholt, Bill Urich Stantec Engineering, Civil, Structural, Electrical, Mechanical Engineers Vincent Helton and Associates, Fountain Mechanical Consultant Rod Turkington, Irrigation Consultant

Client | City of Ottawa Kent Kirkpatrick, City Manager Dan Chenier, General Manager, Parks Recreation and Cultural Services Wayne Newell, Director of Construction, Parks Recreation and Cultural Services Sandra Pilgrim, Lansdowne Park Construction Coordinator, Parks Recreation and Cultural Services

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