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Our landscape architectural group led a multidisciplinary team of Stantec engineers, lighting experts, and geotechnical services, and coordinated the architectural design. We overcame the significant challenges of highly complex construction and fabrications, jurisdictional approvals, and programming requirements to create a unique and engaging memorial.

The plaza offers space for Remembrance Day ceremonies and public events or private reflection amid the narratives water jet cut into the steel, back-lit structures. Architect: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects.

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Stantec values our relationship with you and is committed to protecting your personal information. The final lighting strategy involves the creation of illuminated sentinels located on the South bank of the river, shown in the image above on either side of the bridge, as a way of extending the pattern of illumined trees and as a means of synchronizing the plaza gathering areas with the North to South river views.

The sentinels evoke a sense of connection with distant places or loved ones such as a soldier or the family at home. The two strategies work together to unify and to honour our individual and collective memories, expanding the notion of memorialization in a more inclusive, open-ended and timeless way.

The design solution hinged on two distinct and interrelated surfaces: one of wood and the other of weathering steel. Both surfaces were conceived as transformative systems that facilitate site-specific framing and catalyze different opportunities to occupy, engage and connect.

The weathering steel surface retains the year flood bank while strategically defining a diversity of relationships between the viewer, the river, and views to downtown. One key commemorative gesture is the creation of two stairways connecting the plaza to the river walk below.

Here, a series of narratives are water-jet cut from the weathering steel surface and back-lit, portraying different voices that speak to the sacrifice, honour, and hope associated with periods of conflict. The wood surface is a topography that sutures disparate spaces and negotiates several grade changes into a singular, continuous surface.

Folds within the surface provide various urban amenities, such as surfaces for seating, eating, and commemoration, including the re-honouring of an original heritage tree on site. This new space can be used to accommodate both large events but also informal gatherings and moments of quiet introspection. The formal interaction of the wood and weathering steel creates a complex experience that alternately defines and releases space and spatial associations with the surroundings.

There is a strong use of movement to create a shifting perspective as the viewer engages with the plaza; the commemorative elements oscillate between solidity and ephemerality, akin to the nature of memory itself. Within this restricted material palette, body-sized weathering steel letters signal and define the presence of the public space to Kensington and adjacent vehicular traffic. About the park.

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