Honourable Mention – Student Projects

Land Shift
Site: Toronto Port Lands
Designer: Peter H. North, University of Toronto

Peter Ellis
I am impressed by the dynamic notion of transformation of an industrial wasteland: that the urban land uses are to be determined by the ecological prolepsis of restoration, and will therefore change and become more intensely urban over time.

Larry Beasley
This is one of few submissions that emphasizes environmental sustainability, which makes it forward looking in this context. The notions about natural soils remediation, landscape evolution, and land restoration informing future use are all innovative. The unanswered question is how to draw a practical proposal out of these very positive polemics.

David Oleson
"Land Shift" proposes an evolutionary approach to change "bad" soil into "good", as well as incremental re-inhabitation of the Port Lands. This is a good example of a flexible master plan.

Donna Hinde
Very innovative response that addresses a natural process for soil remediation and a slow evolution of land uses and built form that responds to the condition of the natural environment as it embarks on the process remediation to a healthy condition.