加拿大,安大略省,桑德贝市,亚瑟王子码头 / Brook McIlroy

建筑师:Brook McIlroy

地点:加拿大安大略省桑德贝市

实习建筑师:Ryan Gorrie

原住民社区顾问:Aboriginal Strategy Group

艺术设计:Randy Thomas

摄影:David Whittaker

亚瑟王子码头项目将桑德贝市的滨水区域变成了一个多功能的村庄和极具生气的滨水公园,公园将市中心与苏必利尔湖湖岸重新联系起来。滨水区域于2011年12月16日正式对外开放,到场人数创下纪录,不断获得业界的一致好评和社会的支持。截至目前为止,该项目已获得建筑设计、景观建筑设计和城市设计等十个奖项,包括加拿大皇家建筑学院、加拿大城市研究所、滨水中心、国际市区协会和安大略省景观建筑师协会等机构颁发的奖项。详细列表请参阅随附的说明。

2006年伊始,桑德贝市委托Brook McIlroy领导的团队设计新的滨水区域,以提高城市形象和居民生活品质。设计师、规划师、建筑师和景观建筑师高瞻远瞩,与政府各级部门合作,共同设计了这个项目,在创造活动、形式与空间方面展现出创新性,与当地文化融合,反映了北美洲可持续城市建筑所固有的独特机遇。桑德贝市历史港口的重新设计为居民们提供了真正独特的滨水区域,体现了这一壮观设施的精神。

2009年,桑德贝市获得了国家基础设施激励基金项目安大略省第二大贡献奖。安大略省获得2200万美元的投资,举债完成了这个全面复兴的项目,总工程造价1.2亿美元,其中5500万美元来自公共投资,另外6500万美元来自私人投资。

该项目的设计基础是这样的城市设计理念——体现安大略省北部的精神、物质与文化。这个宏伟的滨水设施俯瞰着 “Nanabijou” / 沉睡的巨人——地平线上的独特地形,这是加拿大最壮观、最具标志性的自然景观之一。

码头的设计灵感来源于数千年前的土著居民历史、世界上最大淡水湖的西岸、加拿大西部的发射台、西部铁路的交汇处、五大湖上的船舶,以及加拿大西部和西北部参加一战和二战的军队告别的地方。


Architects: Brook McIlroy

Location: Thunder Bay’s, Ontario, Canada

Intern Architect: Ryan Gorrie

Aboriginal Community Consultation: Aboriginal Strategy Group

Artist: Randy Thomas

Photographs: David Whittaker

The Prince Arthur’s Landing project has transformed the City of Thunder Bay’s waterfront into a mixed-use village and highly animated waterfront park that reconnects the downtown to the shores of Lake Superior. The waterfront officially opened to the public on December 16th, 2011, and has since seen record attendance and continues to be met with overwhelming industry acclaim and community support. To-date, the project has received ten design awards from architecture, landscape architecture and urban design industries, including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Urban Institute, the Waterfront Center (D.C.), the International Downtown Association, and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, amongst others. Please see attached notes for full listing.

Commencing in 2006, the City of Thunder Bay commissioned a team led by Brook McIlroy to design its new waterfront to enhance the City’s image and high quality of life. With a vision led by urban designers, planners, architects and landscape architects, in conjunction with all levels of government, the project demonstrates innovation in creating activities, forms and spaces that integrate local culture and reflect the uniquely indigenous opportunities of sustainable city building in North America. The redesign of the City’s historic port provides residents with a truly unique waterfront destination that embodies the spirit of this spectacular setting.

In 2009, the City was awarded the second largest contribution in Ontario under the National Infrastructure Stimulus Fund program. Through a $22 million investment, the City successfully leveraged a comprehensive revitalization project with a construction value of $120 million, composed of $55 million in public sector funding, along with by $65 million of private sector investment.

The project is based on a philosophy of urban design which embodies the spirit, materiality and culture of northern Ontario and this magnificent waterfront setting overlooking “Nanabijou” / the Sleeping Giant – a landform on the horizon, which is one of Canada’s most powerful and iconic natural vistas.

Inspiration was drawn from thousands of years of aboriginal settlement history; the western threshold of the greatest and largest freshwater ‘sea’ in the world; the launch-pad of settlement of Western Canada; the junction between the western railways and ships of the Great Lakes; and, the place where western and northwestern Canadian troops bid farewell as they headed off to WWI and WWII.