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Bronx Park Community Centre

August 1, 2024

A Model of Intergenerational Innovation and Community Collaboration Bronx Park Community Centre is an innovative 2,262 sq. m. facility that represents an intergenerational partnership between the Bronx Park Community Centre and the Good Neighbours Active Living Centre. By joining forces, these organizations demonstrate a collaborative approach to addressing community needs. Everyone from toddlers to seniors […]

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City should scramble to transform important Village intersection

April 29, 2024

The corner of River and Osborne is the gateway to Osborne Village, Winnipeg’s highest-density neighbourhood and a rare walkable, complete community in the city. In our collective imagination, the Village strip is a street with bustling sidewalks and vibrant public spaces, set around a series of eclectic shops and restaurants.

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Imagining what the ‘Windy Corner’ could one day be

March 11, 2024

By Brent Bellamy, Associate + Creative Director Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press Open Portage and Main. Four simple words. Elections have been fought over them. Friends have become temporary enemies because of them. Family dinners have been ruined by them. A Winnipeg debate that has stirred local emotions and bewildered outsiders for more than […]

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Portage Place and a second chance

November 21, 2023

From Rosser Avenue in Brandon to Yonge Street in Toronto, Canadian cities of every shape and size built a downtown indoor shopping mall in the 1980s. These developments were a last desperate salvo in the battle between traditional main street retail and the new suburban shopping mall...

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Retrofitting Makes Room for Residential

June 24, 2021

As architects, designers, and urban planners, building great buildings and communities is what we always strive to do. As we see built structures from our past become abandoned and disused, we are presented with opportunities to reimagine the roles these structures can play in the future of our communities.

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Zoning affects a city’s social fabric

January 18, 2021

All North American cities use zoning to regulate the development of land and buildings. By assigning properties into different categories of parkland, commercial, residential and industrial uses, zoning establishes the rules for what can and can't be built.

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Housing key to deracializing cities

July 13, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the racial inequity that exists in North American cities, with racialized neighbourhoods being hit disproportionately hard by the virus. The solution to combat systemic racism in urban design reads much like the solution to make cities more resilient against future pandemics. At the foundation of the challenge is housing.

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