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Feb. 22 - Feb. 29, 2004 |
The New City Hall of Vaughan
Four separate projects are on the table for the redesign of the city's old Civic Centre
By Francesco Riondino
Originally Published: 2004-02-01
What will the new Vaughan City Hall look like? This question has been tickling the imagination of the city residents, but now imagination can make way for reality: last week at the Civic Centre the four architecture studios chosen as finalists for the new administrative complex presented their models, the fruit of their fantasy and professionalism.
Now the projects by ZAS (Zawadzki Armin Stevens Architects) and Zeidler Partnership (from Toronto), Adamson Associates Architects (from Mississauga), Hotson Bakker and Montgomery Sisam Associated Architects Inc. (from Toronto) and KPMB (also from Toronto) will be evaluated by the adjudicating committee, which includes mayor Michael Di Biase, regional councillors Mario Ferri, Linda Jackson, and Joyce Frustaglio, and three architects of fame: Peggy Deamer (PhD in Architecture at Princeton University and partner of Deamer and Phillips), Roger Du Toit (winner of many professional awards and members of numerous adjudicationg committees), and Barry Sampson (Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscaping and Design of the University of Toronto).
Alongside the professional models (depicting a service centre that would accommodate the offices of the city administration, a public library, and Hydro Vaughan, with a covered surface of about 325,000 square feet), third graders from St. Clemens School, in Woodbridge, also exhibited their own ideas.
Dealing with the Trash
Hamilton and Niagara region look for ideas
The City of Hamilton and the Niagara Region have been at the international forefront of the treatment of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) for years. The two administrations, after managing to prevent almost 65 percent of their MSW from reaching a landfill through recycling programmes, have now launched a campaign to look for a smart way to dispose of the remaining 35 percent.
In order to do this, new waste management techniques are being studied, such as the recovery of energy from MSW.
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