{"id":1924,"date":"2012-09-25T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:34:15","slug":"david-oleson-receives-an-award-for-his-design-on-the-village-of-yorkdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/david-oleson-receives-an-award-for-his-design-on-the-village-of-yorkdale\/","title":{"rendered":"David Oleson receives an Award for his design of the village of Yorkville Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art Condos would like to congratulate architect David Oleson<\/a>, designer of the Art Condos building on being awarded the Landmark Award for his design of the Village of Yorkville Park. \u00a0The park is a hub around which downtown Toronto revolves, and was opened in 1994.<\/p>\n

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The Landmark Award, comes quite a while after the park’s inauguration, is clearly not just for design excellence and innovation alone- but as a tribute\u00a0to the Park’s ongoing importance in the city’s life, to its success as a quiet, meditative place that redefined the nature of the urban park. It’s huge outcropping of \u00a0the Canadian Shield, \u00a0appropriately titled \u201cThe Rock\u201d- is still a radical moment in landscape architecture.<\/p>\n

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As architecture critic Christopher Hume notes in his article in the September issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine, “The [Yorkville] Village has undergone many changes since its heyday 40 years ago, many of them less than ideal. The park restored a sense of elegance to a neighbourhood that desperately needed it. \u00a0It also reaffirmed\u00a0the supremacy of people over cars, a lesson that Toronto is just starting to learn.”<\/p>\n

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Read Mr. Hume’s article in the widget below – or \u00a0if that’s not working you can find it here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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