HURON-WILLCOCKS PEDESTRIANIZATION CHARRETTE
WHEN: May 8 & 29, 2008
TEAM BRIEFING: May 8, 3:30 pm, University of Toronto
WHERE: Room 1017, Wilson Hall, 40 Willcocks St
HOW MUCH: free
Information & team pre-registration: fad.charrette@utoronto.ca
The University of Toronto is hosting a 2-part design charrette aimed at re-imagining the Huron and Willcocks intersection, located on its St. George campus. The University invites architects, landscape architects, designers, students, and interested community members to form design teams to participate.
On May 8th, registered teams will meet for a presentation, following which they will be given a working package of drawings and information. Submissions will be expected on May 29th, and exhibited to the university and the community at large. An honorarium will be presented to the team with the most promising ideas.
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Didn’t the Architecture school do a competition on this site in about 1974? Seems to me there was a brigde involved.
Here are some related plans for that intersection (http://www.utoronto.ca/openspace/DemonSites2.pdf) from the university’s somewhat forgotten open space plan.
Jeff – I always wondered what happened to that plan. Thanks for posting the link. Seems like the ideas they had would do just fine now, why must they waste more time?
I doubt it if much can really be done about this intersection without totally demolishing New College (the old buildings) and Sid Smith. They’re both eyesores.