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Gould Street International Student Design Competition

Designing Gould Street is an open, international student design competition to propose an innovative, imaginative series of spaces that will transform the existing Gould Street corridor of Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada into a pedestrianized environment. The Competition is held in conjunction with the 8th annual international pedestrian conference, Walk21 Toronto 2007- ‘Putting Pedestrians First’. The conference is co-hosted this year by the City of Toronto and Green Communities Canada and will run from October 1-4, 2007.

For the last two years, there has been much discussion about how Gould Street should be rethought to make it a safer and more student-friendly. In fact there has been an active voice asking for a pedestrian-plan for Gould Street in the student papers for over a decade. The time is right to give Gould Street serious consideration—the Ryerson Master Plan (by KPMB: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, Daoust Lestage Inc, Greenberg Consultants Inc., and IBI Group) is being put together, for more information please go to: ryerson.ca/about/masterplan/mp_team.html.

This ideas competition will serve to add to the energy growing around the campus. The reconsideration of how a North American urban street encourages more pedestrian-focused activity is part of the wider movement of pedestrianizing roads and streets, not only in North America but in the rest of the world.

Gould Street - The Site
The three block stretch of Gould Street running east/west from Yonge Street to Mutual Street will be the focus of the design competition.

Gould Street is a city-owned right-of-way that has a typical width of 90 feet/metres and a relatively flat surface. It is intersected at six points along its length: O’Keefe Lane, Victoria Street, Bond Street, Church Street, Dalhousie Street, and Mutual Street.

The Gould Street corridor is anchored to the west by Yonge Street, an active commercial strip that is well used by both pedestrians and vehicles. On the southeast corner of Yonge and Gould there is an opportunity to connect to the northern portion of the existing TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) Dundas subway station underground platform.

It is possible to introduce a surface-level access point that would open up from a 4-storey commercial structure onto the south side of Gould Street. A new mixed-use development—Toronto Life Square (formerly known as the Metropolis) is being completed that will have its main loading bay entry located on the south side of Gould Street and O’Keefe Lane. The main Ryerson University library is across the street from this development.

Ryerson University’s early buildings front Gould Street; the main quadrangle is sited on axis along the north side of Gould, with the monumental statue of Egerton Ryerson located at the intersection of Bond Street with Gould. To the south are Lake Devo (formerly called Devonian Square) and the recently completed G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education building. Gould Street’s lake Devo and Victoria Street, as well as portions of Gould and Bond Street are remnants of the early landscaping design at Ryerson University from 1977.

Opposite the quadrangle to the south is the Image Arts Building, soon to include the Black Star Historical Black & White Photography Collection and Mira Godard Study Centre renovation/addition expected completion for 2008. Immediately east is the Student Centre and Oakham House, a converted Victorian home used for conferences and meetings.

Crossing Church Street is the Rogers Communications Centre to the north and the Engineering and Computer Science Building to the south. Rounding out the end of Gould and Mutual Street is a large concrete mixed-use residential/commercial Merchandise Loft building (155 Dalhousie Street) to the south, with the International Living Learning Centre (133 Mutual Street), a student residence/hotel/hospitality-training centre located at the eastern end of Gould.

Trefwoorden

been student

Ryerson University

Type Prijsvraag

Doelgroep Studenten

Meer informatie Andrew Furman

Prijs 5,000, $2,500, en $1,000

Prijsuitreiking 2 oktober

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