A Biannual Journal from McLennan Design. Rediscovering our relationship to the natural world. Volume 3 Issue 2
CELEBRATE ASHRAE World Headquarters
EDIFY Veridian at County Farm
CONTRIBUTE Sudbury 2050 design competition
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Good Riddance 2020! That is the way most of us feel about the end of 2020. A raging pandemic, economic, social and political turmoil, natural disasters, and personal tragedies abounded this year. And yet it was also a year of inflection – a year when we had to face the worst impulses of who we are – especially here in the United States. We aren’t through it, but we can’t deny it anymore. We will soon be rid of the worst president in American history, but we aren’t done with the damage and dysfunction that he and his allies created – the harm to basic American democratic institutions and basic decency. The loss of belief in facts and science and the power given over to conspiracies and falsehoods is both disturbing and depressing – and sets back real reform, which of course is precisely why it’s put out there in the first place. We have a long way to go to address systemic racism in America and in many other places, but perhaps we will tackle it anew in this decade, now that a deeper light has been cast. We have not begun to address climate change in a real way as a society, and 2020 marked the most devasting climate impacts yet on record - but it has become near impossible now to deny the beginnings of its worst effects. Despite all this, one thing I know with extreme clarity, is that real growth arises more during times of crisis and challenge than in times of peace and tranquility. For our nation and our global society, that hopefully has been the case as we look back at the crazy year 2020 turned out to be. I am cautiously optimistic that this ‘year of perfect vision’ will indeed be an inflection point to make significant positive changes at home and abroad. For McLennan Design – like so many – it was a year of contrasts and surreal business contexts. I sat alone with only one employee in a large office as everyone else worked remotely – paying rent on a giant space I could no longer use to convene. I saw my days being consumed with endless Zoom calls – beginning each morning and continuing non-stop until dinner – and often later – as all of us learned to communicate differently. For the first time since high school, I did not travel for nearly a year, which proved a challenge for communications, but a boon for my family and for my carbon footprint. While this year was challenging at times, all these changes had the combined effect of helping us grow as a business and as individuals. This brings further optimism for 2021 and for great work yet to come. In this issue, you will see some cool things – the completion of our deep green retrofit of ASHRAE’s World Headquarters in Atlanta that we designed alongside Houser Walker Architects, as shown through a short visual essay. You will see a cool urban design competition from Sudbury that I was a jury member of – giving hope on urban transformations. You will learn a bit more about the launch of our new business, Living Deep, which I hope will bring people better product choices for their home. And as usual, you will find other sources of inspiration through poetry and project updates. Here is to 2020 being nearly over – and a great holiday wish for all of you to stay healthy, happy and together with those you love. Warmly, Jason F. McLennan CEO, McLennan Design
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
JASON F. MCLENNAN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MICHELLE HENRY
CONTRIBUTORS
JOSHUA FISHER, GALEN CARLSON, IAN MCCALLUM, MCEWEN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
SOCIAL MEDIA
McLennan Design respectfully acknowledges the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples, who, throughout the generations, stewarded and thrived on the land where we live and work. December 2020, Volume 3, Issue 2 LOVE + REGENERATION is a biannual publication of McLennan Design, LLC. © 2020 by McLennan Design. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Content may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission and is intended for informational purposes only. 4
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Climate Pledge Arena Registers for Net Zero Carbon Our appreciation for the Climate Pledge Arena progress
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ASHRAE A photo essay about ASHRAE’s new headquarters
EDIFY
Veridian at County Farm Living Community Challenge project targeted to be one of the nation’s first mixed-income net zero energy communities
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Wilderness wisdom Ian McCallum’s poignant poem
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CONTRIBUTE
Subury 2050 Competition The best design ideas for Sudbury’s future
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Discover the finalists
Sudbury 2050 urban design ideas competition
SPECIAL HOLIDAY PREVIEW WINTER 2020 :: FULL PREMIERE SUMMER 2021
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CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA IS TAKING ITS SPOT ON THE ICONIC SEATTLE SKYLINE. The lights of Climate Pledge Arena sign are LED and operate on faux-neon, which uses 30 percent less power than neon.
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CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA REGISTERS FOR NET ZERO CARBON CERTIFICATION Climate Pledge Arena and Oak View Group announced in December of this year that the arena has submitted its registration to the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) as it works to become the first arena in the world to be net Zero Carbon certified. ILFI, the leading non-profit organization dedicated to advancing sustainable building practices, will now begin reviewing documentation provided by the arena – as well as twelve consecutive months of performance data once the building opens in 2021 to ensure it meets the net Zero Carbon standard. “Registration with ILFI represents the next big step for Climate Pledge Arena on its road to achieving a net Zero Carbon certification,” said Jason F. McLennan, Founder of the International Living Future Institute and CEO of McLennan Design. “The arena is making major strides in energy efficiency, elimination of natural gas from the building, and both on-site and off-site renewables that should achieve net zero carbon operating status in its first year of operation.” “Climate Pledge Arena shows beyond a doubt that buildings of all sizes and uses can pursue net Zero Carbon
certification,” said Shawn Hesse, Director of Business Development at the International Living Future Institute. “With this move, the project team is raising the bar for professional and collegiate sports arenas – and for other global organizations – by embracing independent verification of their climate commitments.” The 18,100-seat multi-purpose venue located at Seattle Center is expected to host 200 events each year, including the NHL’s 32nd and newest expansion team Seattle Kraken, four-time WNBA world champion Seattle Storm, live music and entertainment from the world’s biggest stars, and City of Seattle community events. It is currently undergoing a transformation to construct a brand-new arena under the landmark Paul Thirydesigned roof erected for the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. The Climate Pledge, announced in 2019 by Amazon and Global Optimism, calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Climate Agreement. In securing the naming rights of the historic arena in June 2020, Amazon named it Climate Pledge Arena as a regular reminder of the importance of acting to fight climate change.
Watch the video about the Climate Pledge Arena’s sustainability goals here.
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Construction on the arena is on track to hit major milestones by the end of 2020 in reaching its goals to be net Zero Carbon certified, including: • Completing design and preparing for installation of solar panels on-site at the arena and at the Kraken Training Center at Northgate. • Installation of the first all-electric dehumidifiers in the National Hockey League, keeping the moisture in the rink low for optimum ice conditions. • Installation of all electric boilers to serve the full arena. To learn more about Climate Pledge Arena visit ClimatePledgeArena.com.
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McLennan Design, in partnership with Houser Walker Architecture and in collaboration with Integral Group, have completed the renovation of a new headquarters building in Atlanta, Georgia for ASHRAE, the professional association of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigerating engineers. The design team was tasked with renovating to Net-Zero Energy performance levels a 69,000 sf office building constructed in the 1970s. Because of the technical nature of the work performed by the client, the design The renovation of the ASHRAE called for the very best in thermal conditioning Headquarters project maximized operational and energy-efficient energy performance through simple design enclosures. ASHRAE, measures including: a reduction in the founded in 1894, is a notfor-profit global society window to wall ratio (WWR), the addition advancing human wellbeing through, sustainable of continuous exterior insulation, high technology for the built performance glazing, and sunshades tuned environment. ASHRAE to orientation and site conditions. funds research projects, provides continuing education programs, and develops technical standards for the advancement of HVAC&R systems design and construction with over 56,000 members worldwide. The renovation hopes to serve as a benchmark for deep energy efficiency retrofits and provide a healthy, biophilic, and productive work environment for ASHRAE’s employees and the volunteer committees that serve the industry.
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The new ASHRAE headquarters is a prime example of is adaptive reuse, giving new life to a mid-century building. Buildings such as this and many others found in sub-urban office parks are ubiquitous in every climate zone. This project demonstrates what is possible in one of the most challenging climate zones located in a part of the country where the construction labor market has little tolerance for any unusual construction techniques or technologies. If this sort of performance transformation is affordable and possible in the booming but traditional Atlanta construction market, it is possible anywhere. From the outset, the goal of the project was clear: to celebrate
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off-the-shelf, simple technology and to celebrate the role engineering can play to deploy that equipment in new and innovative ways. The design team ensured the building is net-zero-ready, analyzing the solar potential of the roof area and designing the retrofit Energy Use Intensity to match. As PV panels prices drop, the building will be fully prepared to install a solar array within the available roof area and integrate on-site energy production into the all electric building operations. Interior loads were also reduced as much as possible to keep the size and cost of future PV system to a minimum. There are countless office parks across the
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country with 1970s-era buildings similar to the one acquired for this project – buildings with ‘solid bones’ that merely lack the modern technologies and systems able to accommodate resource conservation ethics. These buildings are also beginning to leak and require major maintenance upgrades. The new ASHRAE HQ exemplifies how to reinvest (modestly) in a 40 year old structure so that it can be useful contemporary workspace for
another 50 years. By maintaining the exisiting strucutral elements, this project dramatically reduces the embodied carbon typically inherent in new construction. By investing in a new enclosure, the project will now perform as efficiently as new construction built to net-zero energy standards. What once were dark and depressing interior spaces have now been transformed with higher ceilings, daylight and views for all staff.
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Reuse of the steel bridge and canopy structure embodied carbon, while providing a modern, protected entryway experience.
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The new atrium roof and skylights provide improved daylighting and eliminated the potential for overheating – a problem frequently encountered with the previous fully-glazed, barrel vaulted roof.
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By reusing the concrete structure and tilt-up wall panels, the ASHRAE Headquarters reduced embodied carbon by substantially compared to new construction (steel frame). Bringing people to the daylight was a key strategy during the programming phase, prioritizing the upper floors for regularly occupied workstations and placing the lessfrequently occupied training spaces on the first levels.
The renovated atrium and roof overhang were designed for passive solar heating in the winter and passive shading during the summer. Continuous structural decking spans the existing atrium opening and integrates acoustical treatment on the interior for an improved indoor experience.
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VISUALIZING THE FUTURE
Visualizing one of the nation’s first mixed-income, Net Zero Energy communities. Article and Renderings by McLennan Design’s Creative Media Director Joshua Fisher
Our Creative Media Studio is dedicated to help good ideas take shape. We are excited and grateful to collaborate with others who share our vision of a future that uplifts people and places, supports equality, and provides social, economic, and environmental vitality to all. When our friends from Veridian at County Farm asked us if we could help them visualize their project we jumped right in. The project seeks to establish a profound new paradigm for community-oriented design, building, and living.
Veridian at County Farm is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan on a property with 130 acres of woods, trillium-lined trails, gardens, playgrounds, and meadows. The development aspires to be one of the nation’s first mixed-income net zero energy communities, and is going to be one of the first built Living Community Challenge masterplans in the country. It will be a 100% all-electric development, powered entirely by solar with no gas lines or combustion appliances of any kind. Homes include front porches overlooking greenways that connect to miles of surrounding wooded trails. Regenerative thinking even extends to the landscaping strategies with dedicated bioswales, rain gardens, and pollinator pathways that help revive the local ecosystem and include 30% of dedicated landscape for food production. Community amenities include a multi-functional community barn, greenhouse, and retail center with cafes and a full service Farm Stop grocery that will sell produce from local farmers year-round. McLennan Design’s Creative Media Studio worked with Veridian’s project team to visualize three key moments of the masterplan. The images produced helped the Veridian team receive unanimous council approval and continue to assist with ongoing fundraising efforts. Project Team:
Thrive Collaborative Matt Grocoff, ESQ, LEED-GA, LFA Union Studio Architecture & Community Design Ben Willis, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP InSite Design Studio Shannan Gibb-Randall, PLA McLennan Design - Visualization Fundraising & Marketing Package Joshua Fisher, Creative Media Director Biohabitats, Pete Munoz Midwestern Consulting, Engineering 18
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Residential Greenway
Farmhouse Afternoon
The front porch of your home at Veridian at County Farm will face a pedestrian-only greenway that leads directly into County Farm Park. The porches and greenways will be the center of social life, connecting existing neighborhoods with Veridian. Enjoy a night with friends out by an open fire, or take a stroll to The Farmhouse for local produce, to the community gardens to harvest your own vegetables, or to the Barn for an outdoor summer movie.
Modeled after Argus Farm Stop, The Farmhouse @ Veridian is a full service grocery that will sell only locally grown produce, meats and dairy. The next generation of the traditional farmer’s market model the grocery will make it easier to purchase local goods and produce from your favorite farmers! The Barn will be a multipurpose social space for Veridian and surrounding neighbors. We’re working with barn preservationists to find a historic pre-civil war barn to preserve and restore. During construction, you might even be able to help with a modern-day barn raising!
Evening View from Apartments Avenues at Veridian at County Farm will be Living Streets designed for people. Bicyclists and walkers will enjoy European “woonerf” style streets shared with cars that are speed-limited by innovative design features. Laneways will allow convenient access to homes from the rear while maximizing restorative green space and improving social interaction between neighbors and visitors. Pathways will incorporate innovative rainfall management techniques that mimic natural ecology.
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DESIGN FOR THE FUTURE
Imagine a World of Living Communities
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Interview with Veridian’s architect Ben Willis, Union Studio Architecture & Community Design
We recognize and celebrate achievements of other architecture and design studios and value the collective knowledge we all hold, learn, and practice. Our hope is that sharing the success of projects across the country and globe that are striving to do the most good will have positive ripple effects in the global community. We want others to join our desire to change the status quo and see the creation of communities that are designed to have thriving relationships with the land and with each other. Our interest and curiosity in seeing the places we live, work, and play transform into more regenerative and restorative places leads us to ask, learn, and listen from those we are grateful to collaborate with. We sat down and asked Union Studio’s Veridian architect a few questions about their approach, thoughts, and perspectives on Living Building Challenge, Living Community Challenge, and insight into the work behind the Veridian at County Farm Masterplan.
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What attracted you to the ideas of the Living Building Challenge and Community Challenge? Why pick these standards instead of other rating systems? What is unique about LBC? As architects, the Living Building and Living Community Challenge allow us to work beyond the scale of a single project – they are a channel for advocacy and education, and they are holistic and robust in their focus on ecosystems. The LBC and LCC require us to keep our intentions for the project – and more importantly, the climate – as close as we’d keep Google Maps when we’re navigating unfamiliar roads. What makes Veridian Masterplan unique? How did Union Studio take the lofty goals of LBC and balance those aspirations with developable, buildable, and affordable plans? The goals of the Living Community Challenge are well aligned with the aspirations we bring to all of our neighborhood plans: centering people as pedestrians, carefully designing the spaces between buildings to define an engaging public realm, finding moments to invite connection with nature and neighbors, creating density that allows for meaningful open space, and using regional vernacular vocabularies to inform the architecture. Veridian had the usual challenges of a highperformance neighborhood: squeezing in as much solar PV capacity as possible, reducing permeable surfaces to manage stormwater, and finding space for parking (cars and bikes) that doesn’t degrade the pedestrian experience. Additionally, given the wide variety of residents that Veridian will provide homes for, it requires a wide variety of building types that all need to fit together and sing a coherent song in their aesthetics and performance requirements. Ann Arbor’s rigorous planning entitlement process, combined with the LCC, forced us to drill into the details – eg. how stormwater was being handled, what kind of landscaping would go where, how much roof area we
had for optimized solar – much earlier than usual. But the success of a Living Community is especially dependent on the details, so keeping these top-of-mind from the beginning helped us evaluate and balance the rest of the design decisions along the way. LCC success also depends on the un-siloing of all the project team disciplines –landscape, civil, stormwater, architecture, financing, community ambassadors—and we relied on frequent communication and alignment among the multi-state team. We were having weekly Zoom meetings long before the pandemic. Do you think LBC and regenerative design is more costly than traditional residential building and master planning? How do you recoup the upfront costs and still develop and build an affordable deep green project? This depends on how we define “cost.” There are higher first costs for a more detailed design process and more durable materials that are sourced in ways unfamiliar to our current market. But not all regenerative design elements are more expensive, and when you expand the timeline by a decade, the energy and long-term maintenance costs can be dramatically lower. Further, if we don’t change our extractive and exploitative paradigms, the long-term cost to our society and our ecosystems is tremendous, and already being felt. One specific strategy is to investigate and understand the design decisions that have the highest cost implications– eg. road and utility infrastructure, building placement, unit density, envelope and structural materials – and work to optimize these as early as possible. Working with a team who understands and aligns with the goals of the LCC/LBC from the outset also helps when it comes time to translate priorities and value to upfront and long-term costs. Read more about Veridian at County Farm here.
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Site of Former Youth Prison Transformed into Sustainable Neighborhood of the Future Conversation with Matthew Grocoff, THRIVE Collaborative
Like the Living Future Challenge itself, Veridian @ County Farm is an act of optimism. It is more than a sustainable neighborhood. It is a platform to stoke our capacities for collaboration, creativity, and compassion. 109 Units of market rate housing developed by THRIVE Collaborative and 50 units of deeply affordable housing developed by Avalon Housing - 10 units are set aside for at risk youth and many Avalon residents will have experienced homelessness.
Status of the project, what’s next and what is still needed to get to shovels in the ground and hammers hitting nails? Ann Arbor City Council voted unanimously to approve the site plan and PUD (planned unit development) zoning. We hope to and release our Living Community Challenge Master plan and break ground next spring. What attracted you to the ideas of the Living Building Challenge and Community Challenge? Why pick these standards instead of other rating systems? What is unique about LBC? When negotiating the purchase agreement of the property with Washtenaw County, commissioners pushed for the commonly used certification standards. Our team pushed back and insisted that anything other than the Living Community Challenge would be a distraction. We had to educate others as to why in this decade of action it is urgent that the standards we use be performance based. Plaques and accolades are meaningless if we don’t create communities that meet the performance demanded by climate crisis and institutional inequities. How have the images and visualizations been received by the local planning departments, city, community, and stakeholders? Several people have commented that “I want to be in that space right now!” The images are inspiring. Thoughts on the process working with MD? Was it helpful? Would you recommend MD Creative Media Studio to others? We were so grateful to have the opportunity to work with MD Creative Media Studio. The failure of the conventional real estate, design, development and construction community is a failure of imagination. It’s a failure in the ability to visualize what a living future would look like. MD Creative understands that future, knows that it’s going to be freakin’ beautiful and, most importantly, has the talent and technical skill to articulate that world in stunning visuals.
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Wilderness POEM by IAN McCALLUM from his book of poems, ‘Wild Gifts’. Have we forgotten
By whose command
that wilderness is not a place,
were the animals
but a pattern of soul
through groping fingers,
where every tree, every bird and beast
one for each hand,
is a soul maker?
reduced to the big and little five?
Have we forgotten
Have we forgotten
that wilderness is not a place
that every creature is within us
but a moving feast of stars,
carried by tides
footprints, scales and beginnings?
of Earthly blood and that we named them?
Since when did we become afraid of the night
Have we forgotten
and that only the bright stars count?
that wilderness is not a place,
Or that our moon is not a moon
but a season
unless it is full?
and that we are in its final hour?
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The Best Design ideas for Sudbury’s future! ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE “SUDBURY 2050 URBAN DESIGN IDEAS COMPETITION” WINNERS
The McEwen School of Architecture (MSoA) is proud to announce the winners of the Sudbury2050.ca Urban Design Ideas Competition.
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The City of Greater Sudbury is at a point in its development where there is a unique confluence of opportunities and challenges: •
an unprecedented extent of development being proposed both by the City and private developers new events centre, new library, new art gallery, housing projects, redevelopment of the rail lands, as well as related infrastructure projects
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overlying global issues that will impact all of those developments - primarily climate change and the need to create zero net energy solutions
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the potential for Sudbury to take its internationally recognized re-greening success further with second phase within the city core;
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an international McEwen School of Architecture, with a unique focus and most importantly a mandate to foster world class design in the North;
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an international Advisory Board to the School that is committed to advancing and funding the School’s goals;
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and finally, a Covid-19 crisis that is having a major impact on the health, infrastructure, and social and economic sectors of the City
The Unique Value of a Competition of Ideas By its very nature, the Sudbury2050 competition has provided a forum for truly innovative ideas to be presented. It has drawn architects, urban planners, engineers, environmental designers and urban thinkers from all over the world. Entrants were asked to present their ideas of high-level design solutions for the urban core, reflecting the major building projects being proposed. At the same time, entrants were challenged to propose the broader context in which the urban core resides – the proximity to Lake Ramsey and its adjacent parks, the connections to greenways and watercourses, as well as the relationship to surrounding neighbourhoods. 29
This Urban Design Ideas Competition has provided a unique opportunity to maximize the development of new ideas, in the shortest amount of time and it has provided a forum for truly innovative ideas to be presented. The prime goal of the competition was to provide new perspectives to our community and to reveal unseen, unimagined opportunities. Great economic impact may come from the potential these solutions carry to trigger public or private developments that would not have happened otherwise. An innovative idea may lead to an unforeseen development opportunity. Entrants were also asked to provide their strategies for engaging the community with
their proposed solutions – to distill from their work – the key principles that they think should guide ongoing planning and development in the City of Greater Sudbury. This competition has attracted international attention to the City and the School of Architecture. It is globally unique, in that the entrants were offered the opportunity to propose their ideas for a complete urban core, whereas typically, urban design competitions focus only on a small part of a city. There has never been a design competition like this in Canada. Sudbury has created another first! 29
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The Design Challenge and the Selection of Finalists A roster of experienced local, national, and international jurors has evaluated the entries on their visionary, phased, and integrated thinking, as well as their ability to provide a visual language of their process through design. The initial design brief stated: This competition challenges entrants to create a new vision for the urban core of the City of Greater Sudbury. A 2050 vision that is far-reaching and one that will serve the city well in a rapidly changing global environment. The competition drew to a close on August 28, 2020, with 100 submissions from all over the world, in both the Open and Student categories. All of them represented creative and often provocative thinking about our city and its future. Each presented a different story about our community in Greater Sudbury.
The competition jury developed a short list of the Top 5 entries in the Student Category and the Top 8 in the Open Category. All of these shortlisted teams made public presentations online, during November 23 and 24, 2020. Following these presentations, the Jury made its final selections.
Rarely does a community get the opportunity to be the focus of an international design competition.
The public was also invited to vote for their choice and over 2,000 votes were cast online for the People’s Choice award.
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Competition Jurors and Advisors The Sudbury2050.ca jury was comprised of internationally recognized architects, designers, academics, politicians, entrepreneurs, and community representatives. Jury Facilitator: Toon Dreesen, OAA, FRAIC, President DCA Architects (Ottawa) Professional Advisors to the Competition: Blaine Nicholls, FRAIC, former partner at NYB Architects/Architectes (currently Yallowega, Bélanger, Salach Architecture) in Sudbury, ON; Dr. Terrance Galvin, Founding Director, McEwen School of Architecture; and Chair, McEwen International Advisory Board Local political figures on the jury include Hon. Brian Bigger, Mayor of the City of Greater Sudbury and City Councillors Geoff McCausland and Deb McIntosh, while members from the McEwen School of Architecture in Sudbury include professors Shannon Bassett, David Fortin (MSoA Director) and Ted Wilson, along with Graduate students Britney Ottley-Perrotte and Tristan O’Gorman. Victor Kolynchuk, a practicing architect with Architecture49 Inc., based in Winnipeg, rounds out the local jurors. Notable international and national jurors included: • visionary architect Jason McLennan, originally from Sudbury, author of the Living Building Challenge that posits Regenerative Design as our environmental responsibility and architect for Seattle’s new net zero ‘Climate Pledge Arena’; • graphic design guru Bruce Mau, also originally from Sudbury, Co-Founder of the Massive Change Network (MCN) and recent author of MC24: Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in your Life and Work with global influence design education and innovation; • architect Marianne McKenna, whose Canadian architectural firm KPMB has received over 300 design awards and received 16 Governor General Medals in Architecture, including one for the Royal Conservatory, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning in Toronto; • Lisa Rochon, award-winning journalist for the national Globe and Mail newspaper, architecture critic, author and founder of CityLab in Toronto; • architect Dee Dee Taylor Eustace, design advocate who leads a high-end practice of architecture, interior design, and product design in Toronto Along with Mau, McKenna, McLennan, Rochon and Taylor, who are all members of the McEwen International Advisory Board, other jury members from the Advisory Board include philanthropist and entrepreneur Cheryl McEwen and Dr. David Fortin, Director of the McEwen School of Architecture (MSoA). The MSoA is the major sponsor for the competition, in collaboration with the other sponsors mentioned below. To read more about the jury, please refer to their bios on the Sudbury2050.ca website.
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OPEN CATEGORY - $50,000 PRIZE Sponsored by Element5 Co., the Northern Society of Architects (NOSA), the McEwen School of Architecture (MSoA), the McEwen International Advisory Board and the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce Winner – “Sève” - $50, 000 PRIZE – Team #322 (Montréal – Canada) Karyna St.-Pierre, Julie Parenteau, Emilie Labrousse, Pierre-Yves Diehl “An elegant and sophisticated handling of a revitalized city, deftly imagined at an urban scale that heightens community within Sudbury. At all levels, from regional connections to fine urban grain, the scheme shows the promise of revitalized laneways, and suave connections between timber frame commercial spaces and innovative, rewilded commons or public spaces. The team integrates nature, culture and heritage seamlessly, as envisioned by its Francophone team of designers…” - Lisa Rochon, Competition Juror, award-winning journalist for the national Globe and Mail newspaper, architecture critic author and founder of CityLab in Toronto.
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Honourable Mention – “Mashkikike” – Team #8341 (Sudbury – Canada) Emilio Portal, Matthew Hunter, Jayden Daoust, Elyse Portal, William Morin, Miranda Virtanen, Naomi Grant, Cora-Rae Silk, Camille Tremblay Beaulieu, Simon Blakeley, Rebecca Elphick, Megan Tran “An inspiring and impressive design vision that upends conventional urban planning to prioritize, at long last, an Indigenous-led authorship and engagement of a broad grassroots community. The healing centre, set within a dynamic bridge structure over the water and grass lands surrounding an Indigenous pavilion, sets a new benchmark for Sudbury placemaking.” - Lisa Rochon, Competition Juror and founder of CityLab in Toronto.
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Honourable Mention – “Northern Traction” – Team #3802 (Brampton & Kingston ON - Canada) Zain Karsan, Natalie Bellefleur “Effortless and engaging public interface by way of a compelling and accessible video and purpose designed app. Step by step, one phase at a time, the design presents a sublime logic for a meaningful reinvention of Sudbury.” - Lisa Rochon, Competition Juror and founder of CityLab in Toronto.
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STUDENT CATEGORY - $10,000 PRIZE Sponsored by the Carpenters District Council of Ontario and the McEwen School of Architecture (MSoA) Winner – “Re-Stitched” - $10,000 PRIZE – Team #5213 (Sudbury) Aidan Lucas, Maeve Macdonald “Re-stitched tugs at the loose threads of where we’ve been and enables us to imagine where we can go. This submission embraces who and what we are and then re-stitches the pieces to create a new tapestry that re-imagines an urban core as a destination for everyone.” - Deb McIntosh, Competition Juror, Councillor City of Greater Sudbury. “The folly notion captures the emerging spirit of Sudbury. Playful, not averse to risk and accepting of past challenges and conditions in order to reimagine them in thoughtful and well-grounded new ways for living collaboratively.” - DTed Wilson, Competition Juror, OAA, McEwen School of Architecture (Laurentian University)
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Honourable Mention – “Collective City” – Team #351 (Canada – British Columbia) Jesse Martyn
“The city center is reimagined as a network of different systems connected with downtown magnets or hubs developed according to the principles of ecological urbanism. Development focusses on re-greening the community and creating productive landscapes as well as new closed loop sustainable research and production facilities. A new market zone is enhanced by preserving the character and sense of place provided by existing railway buildings to honor the past and provide an aspirational future.” - Victor Kolynchuk, Competition Juror and Architecture49
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Honourable Mention – “Urban Constellation” – Team #1478 (France) Gaël Biache, Elise Dalmasso
“Urban Constellation inspires us to look at the bigger picture with a nightly reminder of the bigger world out there. Revealing the night sky within the urban core would nightly connect people to the natural environment and create a mind shift in thinking that could help lead us toward our community’s goal to reach Net Zero by 2050.” - Deb McIntosh, Competition Jury Member and Councillor, City of Greater Sudbury.
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Esteemed green architect, Jason F. McLennan, launches Living Deep, an online market-place committed to the highest standards of sustainability, transparency, and quality. “We look for products that provide ingredient, sourcing and manufacturing transparency,” McLennan states. “While there’s no universal standard for sustainable manufacturing, we feel good knowing that every brand we carry is on a ‘deep green’ path, making progress towards positive environmental and social benefit.”
Founded by world-renowned green architect, Jason F. McLennan, Living Deep is an online marketplace of ecologically and socially responsible home and lifestyle products, curated by design professionals and vetted by world-class sustainability experts for quality, beauty and environmental performance. Living Deep’s visually rich and compelling portfolio aims to connect environmentally progres-sive craftspeople, manufacturers, artists and product designers with a discerning clientele who intentionally choose to buy fewer, better things. The eclectic curation of furniture, decor, products and materials feature one-of-a-kind handicrafts alongside mass produced items, the common denominator being a verifiable commitment to sustainability and transparency. Living Deep’s global network of partnering vendors has been handpicked by McLennan and a small core team of knowledgeable green design leaders. While customers will enjoy browsing an expertly vetted offering of sustainably produced goods, commerce is not the only intention of the Living Deep marketplace. With a penchant for pushing the environmental envelope, McLennan and his team are guided by three unconventional values.
Buy Less Stuff The antidote to excess, Living Deep encourages a more resourceful approach to sustainabil-ity. The reduce, reuse, recycle loop still leads to depleted resources. Living Deep urges its customers to consume less, because the easiest way to reduce waste is to stop creating it.
Invest for Life When making a purchase, buy things worth keeping. Invest in ethically and expertly made products that are gentle on the earth, beautiful to behold and designed to last.
Be the Change By consuming less and investing more in sustainably made, high quality items that are designed to last, we redirect our dollar to support systematic change. Living Deep supports the companies who support the environment and encourage its customers to do the same.
Built for Life. QUALITY. BEAUTY. ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE.
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ABOUT MCLENNAN DESIGN McLennan Design, one of the world’s leading multi-disciplinary regenerative design practices, focuses on deep green outcomes in the fields of architecture, planning, consulting, and product design. The firm uses an ecological perspective to drive design creativity and innovation, reimagining and redesigning for positive environmental and social impact. Founded in 2013 by global sustainability leader and green design pioneer Jason F. McLennan and joined by partner Dale Duncan, the firm dedicates its practice to the creation of living buildings, netzero, and regenerative projects all over the world. As the founder and creator of many of the building industry’s leading programs including the Living Building Challenge and its related programs, McLennan and his design team bring substantial knowledge and unmatched expertise to the A/E industry. The firm’s diverse and interdisciplinary set of services makes for a culture of holistic solutions and big picture thinking.
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ABOUT JASON F. MCLENNAN Considered one of the world’s most influential individuals in the field of architecture and green building movement today, Jason is a highly sought out designer, consultant and thought leader. The recipient of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize, the planet’s top prize for socially responsible design, he has been called the Steve Jobs of the green building industry, and a World Changer by GreenBiz magazine. In 2016, Jason was selected as the Award of Excellence winner for Engineering News Recordone of the only individuals in the architecture profession to have won the award in its 52-year history. McLennan is the creator of the Living Building Challenge – the most stringent and progressive green building program in existence, as well as a primary author of the WELL Building Standard. He is the author of six books on Sustainability and Design used by thousands of practitioners each year, including The Philosophy of Sustainable Design. McLennan is both an Ashoka Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Design Future’s Council. He has been selected by Yes! Magazine as one of 15 People Shaping the World and works closely with world leaders, Fortune 500 companies, leading NGOs, major universities, celebrities and development companies –all in the pursuit of a world that is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative. He serves as the Chairman of the International Living Future Institute and is the CEO of McLennan Design – his architectural and planning practice designing some of the world’s most advanced green buildings. McLennan’s work has been published in dozens of journals, magazines and newspapers around the world.
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