Where's the Square - Design Competition Winners
Jury Selection and People's Choice Awards
A total of three awards were presented as part of the VPSN's "Where's the Square?" Competition. Awards were presented at a ceremony held on May 27, 2009 at Heritage Hall. Follow the links below for a complete page on each winner.
Jury Selection - #026 - "The Band" - Mark Ashby Architecture & Greenskins Lab
(Mark Ashby, Kevin Kong, Isabel Kunigk and Daniel Roehr)
"To create a square specific to Vancouver, the traditional square is "unbundled" and reassembled in a linear space edged with public institutions... A band is stretched from the intersection of Robson and Homer Streets linking the Vancouver Public Library, the CBC, BC Place Stardium and the proposed Vancouver Art Gallery to the False Creek Seawall..." | More...
People's Choice 1 - #031 - Vancouver Carpet - Hapa Collaborative
(Joe Fry, Xenia Semeniuk and Doron Fishman)
"A refreshed civic square on the north courthouse plaza bound by Georgia, Hornby and Howe...[and] a restoration of the VAG and former courthouse into a truly public venue venue for cultural exchange and higher learning, reopening its ceremonial doors to the street and square..." | More...
People's Choice 2 - #017 - Waterfront Square - Michael Alexander & Michael Painter (MPA Design)
(Michael Alexander and Michael Painter)
"A large plaza at the elevation of intersection of Granville and Cordova Streets... [and] a soaring all-glass galleria built north of Waterfront Station..." | More...