Keyword
urban design
Union Station and Front Street Revitalization – Award of Excellence
Jury Comments: “At one of the busiest underground transit stations in Canada the engineers successfully designed and managed the construction of a second platform. Since it was critical to keep the subway trains running, they found ways to control the dynamic and static forces on the structure and used a complex shoring and staging process. A side benefit of the project was enhancing the public “space on Front Street.”
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Gardiner Expressway structure finds new life
The dingy, shadowy spaces under the massive structure that carries heavy traffic across downtown Toronto has been earmarked for transformation in a new project announced last week. Entitled for now “Project: Under Gardiner,” the scheme envisions building a new connecting…
