Landscape Paysages fall 2014 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
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The document is the 2014 issue of 'Landscapes | Paysages' published by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, featuring various contributions including articles, awards, and reflections on the profession’s history. Highlights include discussions on excellence in landscape architecture, recognition of significant projects across Canada, and a retrospective on the evolution of client relationships in landscape design. It showcases the dedication of professionals in the field and includes both French and English content.
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SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
PAUL ALLISON
As a professional landscape architect, have you ever asked a fellow LA or other professional colleague
about the character of a potential new client? In the first decade of the 1900s, Samuel Maclure, a
renowned architect in Victoria, was in the midst of completing Hatley Castle in Colwood, B.C., for the
famous coal baron, Sir James Dunsmuir, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.
62 LANDSCAPES PAYSAGES
On December 4, 1907, Maclure sat down at his desk and
wrote a letter to John Charles Olmsted, addressed to the Arlington
Club in Portland, Oregon, where he was temporarily staying. JCO,
the nephew of Frederick Law Olmsted of New York’s Central
Park fame, was at that time the first president of the American
Society of Landscape Architects. Maclure wrote encouragingly to
JCO to visit Victoria and consult with Dunsmuir on creating estate
gardens for Hatley Park.
<<...Being familiar with the work of the late F. Law Olmsted I have
asked my client to allow me to communicate with you to ask you
what terms you would be willing to come to Victoria, view the site
and prepare plans for the laying out of the grounds. There are 240
acres in the estate, the site slopes towards the sea, southing, and
there are innumerable springs of pure water flowing from the hill
sides which could be used in any manner to beautify the grounds
with lakes, streams, etc. This house is a very important one and I am
anxious to have a siting prepared for it by your distinguished hand,
if this is at all possible.>>
FOUR YEARS LATER… AN URGENT REQUEST
Olmsted did, in fact, consult with Dunsmuir in late December,
1907, but never heard back from him. Then, in 1911, Dunsmuir
sent the Olmsted firm a telegram urgently requesting Olmsted
to visit and design a landscape before he left for a European tour
that was popular with the Edwardian elite at the time. Olmsted
was a little taken aback as he had not heard back from his initial
consultation and was busy with other projects.
My Dear Mr. Olmsted,
…I do not think that any dealings
you could have with him would
be satisfactory to you…
…He is arbitrary and unjust and
prefers insult to encouragement…
…Hon Mr. Dunsmuir is not a
Lord, not even a Knight.
SAMUEL MACLURE
THE ARCHITECT
SIR JAMES DUNSMUIR
THE CLIENT
ESSAY | ESSAI
Photo City of Victoria
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Landscape Paysages fall 2014 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
- 1. LANDSCAPES | PAYSAGES Vol.16_no.3 2014 vol.16_ no. 3 | 8.00$ THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS L’ASSOCIATION DES ARCHITECTES PAYSAGISTES DU CANADA www.csla-aapc.ca excellence 2014
- 2. ISSN 1492-9600 Editorial Board | Comité de rédaction : Jean Trottier, Chair, MALA Douglas Carlyle, AALA Ron Middleton, AALA Juliette Patterson, AAPQ Wendy Graham, AAPQ Sue Sirrs, APALA Cynthia Girling, BCSLA Kevin Connery, BCSLA Don Hester, MALA Ryan Wakshinski, MALA Richard Wyma, NuALA Peter Briggs, NWTALA Linda Irvine, OALA Ryan James, OALA Natalie Walliser, SALA CSLA Board of Directors | Conseil de l’AAPC : Carol Craig, President, president Peter Briggs, Past President, president-sortant Robert Norman, President-elect Arnis Budrevics, Finance Chair, president des finances Peter Alexander, AALA Jean Landry, AAPQ Gordon Kraushaar, APALA Nastaran Moradinejad, BCSLA Bob Somers MALA Cameron DeLong NuALA Margaret Ferguson NWTALA Joanne Moran OALA Trevor Tumach SALA Michelle Legault | Executive Director | directrice générale www.csla-aapc.ca | executive-director@csla-aapc.ca Translation | Traduction : François Couture, trad.a., réd.a. | fcouture@voilatranslations.com Matthew Sendbuehler | letraducteur@gmail.com Art Direction | Direction artistique : Wendy Graham Editor in Chief | Rédactrice en chef : Judy Lord | judylord12@gmail.com Guest Editor | Rédacteur invitée : James Tuer Published by | Publié par : Naylor (Canada), Inc. 1630 Ness Avenue, Suite 300, Winnipeg, MB R3J 3X1 Tel.: 204.947.0222 | Fax: 204.947.2047 | www.naylor.com Publisher | Éditeur : Robert Phillips Naylor Editor | Rédactrice Naylor : Andrea Németh Project Manager | Directrice de projet : Kim Davies Publication Director | Directeur de la publication : Ralph Herzberg Marketing Associate | Adjointe à la commercialisation : Kaydee Currie Sales Representatives | Représentants des ventes : Brian Hoover, Lana Taylor, Maria Antonation, Maya Wisher, Megan Stanley. Shane Holt, Trevor Perrault, Wayne Jury Layout & Design | Mise en page et conception graphique : Emma Law ©2014 Naylor (Canada), Inc. All rights reserved. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the publisher. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Naylor (Canada), Inc., Distribution Dept., 1630 Ness Avenue, Suite 300, Winnipeg, MB R3J 3X1 Canadian Publication Agreement #40064978 Published JULY 2014/CSL-Q0314/4676 8 LANDSCAPES PAYSAGES landscapes | paysages www.csla-aapc.ca contents | SOMMAIRE UPFRONT | PROLOGUE 12 | TO BEGIN WITH | POUR COMMENCER Vive la différence ! James Tuer, 2014 Excellence Jury | Jury d’excellence 14 | UPFRONT | PROLOGUE WLAM The Surest Sign of Summer in Montréal Planning Excellence CIP Vice-présidente Peñalosa The White Phone Box The River BCSLA’s Big Year Fellows 50th >LP+ ONLINE | EN LIGNE PLUS > “MAKING A LANDSCAPE” … EXCERPT > HATLEY CASTLE > LAKE EFFECT – HARBOURFRONT SHOW TRANSLATIONS | TRADUCTIONS FR_LP+ | VERSION EN FRANÇAIS EN_LP+ | ENGLISH VERSION COVER | COUVERTURE PHOTO GUILLAUME PARADIS. CLAUDE CORMIER ET ASSOCIÉS, SEE | VOIR P.57 26 28
- 3. AUTOMNE | AUTUMN vol. 16_ no. 3 2014 AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE | PRIX D’EXCELLENCE 2014 vol.16_no.3 9 FOCUS | FOCUS 22 | EXCELLENCE 2014 | LES PRIX D’EXCELLENCE – cru 2014 James Tuer Adjudicator | Membre du jury 24 | NATIONAL HONOUR | HONNEUR NATIONAL Les promenades urbaines (Montréal) Dundas Street West Parkettes (Toronto) The Landscape of Memory (Calgary) 30 | NATIONAL MERIT | MÉRITE NATIONAL Chemin-Qui-Marche Lookout East Bayfront Promenade Variety Heritage Adventure Park Imperial Lofts Zaubergarten Pottery Road Crossing Toronto Trail Strategy Tree Planting Manual 46 | NATIONAL CITATION | CITATION NATIONALE Transforming Ottawa’s Streets Parc Hydro-Québec Roundhouse Park TOM Fields 50 | THE REGIONALS | PRIX RÉGIONAUX FORUM | FORUM 59 | ADJUDICATION > FR_LP+ | Profil du jury 61 | CSLA: 80 YEARS | AAPC : 80 ANS Some Things Never Change Paul Allison > FR_LP+ | EN_LP+ | Hatley Castle Today 64 | LACF | FACP 1000 Trees in the Palm of Your Hand Vancouver Trees App Team LACF | FACP : Asking the Right Questions > FR_LP+ | Poser les bonnes questions 68 | CRITIQUE | CRITIQUE Landscape Architecture in Canada, by Ronald Williams Read by Susan Herrington > FR_LP+ | Architecture de paysage du Canada 70 | URBAN DESIGN AWARDS > FR_LP+ | Prix de design urbain 82 | THE LAST WORD | LE MOT DE LA FIN Icons? No Way! Ron Middleton > FR_LP+ | Des emblèmes : non merci ! 24
- 4. VICE-PRÉSIDENTE PEÑALOSA JEAN LANDRY, AAPQ, FCSLA, MBA EN_LP+ | IFLA Vice President PeÑalosa fR_ NOUVELLES DE LA FIAP Le 4 avril dernier, nous avons appris avec grand plaisir que Raquel Peñalosa, architecte paysagiste qui a représenté l’AAPQ pendant plusieurs années et qui est actuellement déléguée de l’AAPC auprès de la FIAP, a été élue vice-présidente de la région des Amériques. Le nouveau comité de direction de la région des Amériques sera donc composé, à partir du mois de juin 2014, de madame Peñalosa, de Monica Pallarez (Mexique) au poste de secrétaire et de Tino Manta (Uruguay) à celui de trésorier. Ils travailleront de concert avec Catherine Moore (R.-U.) qui occupera le poste de présidente. Ce comité sera en place jusqu’au mois de juin 2016. L’élection de madame Peñalosa fait suite au travail soutenu de son prédécesseur de l’AAPC, Jim Taylor, qui a consacré ses années au sein de la FIAP à soutenir 16 LANDSCAPES PAYSAGES le développement de l’architecture de paysage sur le continent africain. Dans sa campagne électorale, madame Peñalosa a insisté sur la gouvernance, principalement en ce qui a trait aux éléments suivants : une plus grande équité et une participation accrue des membres dans les processus décisionnels; les communications, en passant par une plus grande présence sur Internet; l’éducation, par le soutien continu au programme de création et de consolidation de la profession à l’échelle panaméricaine; et la poursuite du travail de rapprochement avec l’Initiative d’Amérique latine sur le Paysage (LALI). C’est d’ailleurs dans cet esprit que les travaux de notre Initiative canadienne de charte du paysage (ICCP) cherchent à s’harmoniser, cela afin de profiter de l’occasion de partage qui nous sera offerte au Congrès de l’AAPC de 2015, à Mexico. Nous ne pouvons donc qu’être heureux des possibilités que cette nouvelle nomination offrira à tous les membres de l’AAPC et nous souhaitons à madame Peñalosa la meilleure des chances dans cette fonction importante pour l’avancement de la profession d’architecte-paysagiste, autant au Canada que dans le reste du monde. THE CALL BOX PAUL ALLISON I recently returned from Japan, where I was working as a technical advisor to evaluate therapeutic gardening programs run by a non-profit group called AmeriCares. The programs were designed for the survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region. I also delivered horticultural therapy workshops for survivors and for community groups. One day, I was in Ootsuchi, a coastal town that was completely destroyed by the tsunami. The community group invited me to visit a unique garden, where a local man, Mr. Sasaki, had constructed a white telephone box and placed it within a quiet part of the garden. This white telephone box served a very special purpose. Mr. Sasaki explained that he had created the telephone box in the garden for those survivors who had never had the opportunity to say goodbye to those who were lost. In the call box, they could pick up the phone for a “direct line” to their lost loved ones. The opportunity to express their feelings might lighten the heavy burden carried by survivors who had no chance to say goodbye. The telephone box, as metaphor, has provided comfort to hundreds of visitors. It has proven to be a very powerful symbol and an effective therapeutic tool for the survivors of Ootsuchi. paulcallison@shaw.ca UPFRONT | PROLOGUE JEAN LANDRY, AAPQ/FCSLA, MBA, représente l’AAPQ au conseil d’administration de l’AAPC. Ses photos ornent souvent les pages de LP. Raquel Peñalosa et lui défendent l’élaboration d’une charte du paysage pour le Canada. landryjean@videotron.ca PHOTO RAQUEL IN ARGENTINA, ISLA EL DESCANSo | RAQUEL À L’ÎLE EL DESCANSO EN ARGENTINE PHOTO PAUL ALLISON
- 5. ESSAY | ESSAI 2014 vol.16_no.3 61 TURNING BACK THE CLOCK RÉTROSPECTIVE ÉDIFIANTE 1907 CSLA AAPC 1907 1924 1934 1944 1954 1964 1972 1884 1994 2004 2014 2024 2034 celebrating 80 years of CSLA | fetant 80 ans de l’AAPC EN_ THIS YEAR, LP LOOKS BACK OVER THE YEARS with stories and vignettes from Canada’s landscape history. In this issue, Paul Allison wonders how much things have changed over the last century – at least in the way we scope out possible new clients. In 1911, John Charles Olmsted received a telegram from Sir James Dunsmuir, urgently requesting that he design a landscape for Colwood’s Hatley Park, near Victoria, British Columbia. But Olmsted had cause for concern…To read the story, turn the page! FR_ LP SE PLAÎT À REVIVRE LES DERNIÈRES ANNÉES avec des anecdotes et des vignettes de la profession. Dans ce numéro, Paul Allison s’interroge sur l’évolution de nos méthodes pour trouver des clients au fil du dernier siècle. En 1911, John Charles Olmsted a reçu un télégramme de Sir James Dunsmuir le priant de dessiner de toute urgence un paysage pour le parc Hatley de Victoria. Or, Olmsted avait de quoi s’inquiéter…Lisez l’article en anglais, et voir LP+. NEPTUNE STEPS, ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY, HATLEY CASTLE, COLWOOD, B.C. PHOTO COURTESY ROYAL ROADS
- 6. 12. FORUM_TURNING [3] SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE PAUL ALLISON As a professional landscape architect, have you ever asked a fellow LA or other professional colleague about the character of a potential new client? In the first decade of the 1900s, Samuel Maclure, a renowned architect in Victoria, was in the midst of completing Hatley Castle in Colwood, B.C., for the famous coal baron, Sir James Dunsmuir, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. 62 LANDSCAPES PAYSAGES On December 4, 1907, Maclure sat down at his desk and wrote a letter to John Charles Olmsted, addressed to the Arlington Club in Portland, Oregon, where he was temporarily staying. JCO, the nephew of Frederick Law Olmsted of New York’s Central Park fame, was at that time the first president of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Maclure wrote encouragingly to JCO to visit Victoria and consult with Dunsmuir on creating estate gardens for Hatley Park. <<...Being familiar with the work of the late F. Law Olmsted I have asked my client to allow me to communicate with you to ask you what terms you would be willing to come to Victoria, view the site and prepare plans for the laying out of the grounds. There are 240 acres in the estate, the site slopes towards the sea, southing, and there are innumerable springs of pure water flowing from the hill sides which could be used in any manner to beautify the grounds with lakes, streams, etc. This house is a very important one and I am anxious to have a siting prepared for it by your distinguished hand, if this is at all possible.>> FOUR YEARS LATER… AN URGENT REQUEST Olmsted did, in fact, consult with Dunsmuir in late December, 1907, but never heard back from him. Then, in 1911, Dunsmuir sent the Olmsted firm a telegram urgently requesting Olmsted to visit and design a landscape before he left for a European tour that was popular with the Edwardian elite at the time. Olmsted was a little taken aback as he had not heard back from his initial consultation and was busy with other projects. My Dear Mr. Olmsted, …I do not think that any dealings you could have with him would be satisfactory to you… …He is arbitrary and unjust and prefers insult to encouragement… …Hon Mr. Dunsmuir is not a Lord, not even a Knight. SAMUEL MACLURE THE ARCHITECT SIR JAMES DUNSMUIR THE CLIENT ESSAY | ESSAI Photo City of Victoria Archives M06101
- 7. HISTORIC HATLEY castle + park. THE Project Has this dialogue between Maclure and Olmsted resonated with you, perhaps mirroring your experiences with a prospective client? Despite the fact that over a century separates us from this exchange, when it comes to scoping out a client, some things never change. paulcallison@shaw.ca FOR A LOOK AT HATLEY CASTLE TODAY, SEE >LP+ My dear Mr. Maclure... …I have felt considerable reluctance to undertake to design the improvements which he now desires… …It has also been intimated to me by someone, I forget now who, that his manner of dealing with professional men is not such as to be apt to meet with their entire approbation. …I therefore earnestly venture to ask for your frank opinion… 2014 vol.16_no.3 63 Olmsted felt uncomfortable about Dunsmuir’s character. He decided on August 17, 1911, to write to Maclure for advice. Would it in fact be worth the time to work for Dunsmuir? <<As Lord Dunsmuir did not accept the proposition which I made to him through you for a preliminary visit in 1907 and has gone ahead and improved his place in a manner which I now understand he is dissatisfied with, I have felt considerable reluctance to undertake to design the improvements which he now desires, lest our reputation should suffer through the assumption by any one interested that the place as a whole was designed by us. It has also being intimated to me by someone, I forget now who, that his manner of dealing with professional men is not such as to be apt to meet with their entire approbation. I inferred, also, that it is possible, although it was not so stated, that he may be arbitrary and unjust in the matter of paying bills for professional services. I therefore venture to ask for your frank opinion as to whether you think it would be a reasonably satisfactory piece of work for our office to undertake, and whether you would advise us to have dealings with Lord Dunsmuir. I shall of course regard anything you say as absolutely confidential, in fact will return your letter to you if desired. I have plenty to do so that I am not especially looking for work and am in a position to decline this work if it seems unlikely to be satisfactory.>> Maclure replied promptly on August 23, 1911. <<My Dear Mr. Olmsted, In reply to your letter of 17th inst, which has just reached me, I may say that my own experience with Hon. James Dunsmuir entirely bears out what you say has been intimated to you regarding his character as a client, and judging from this I do not think that any dealings you could have with him would be satisfactory to you, I have never been so badly treated by anyone as I have by him and this is in return for faithful services extended over several years, and many others have had similar experience with him. He is arbitrary and unjust and prefers insult to encouragement in dealing with professional men…and much as I should rejoice to have one of your beautiful gardens here I feel it would not be fair to you to encourage you to accept any work from a man of Mr. Dunsmuir’s extraordinary character. P.S. You need not treat this as confidential unless you wish. Hon Mr. Dunsmuir is not a Lord, not even a Knight.>> John Charles Olmsted THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT PHOTO NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR OLMSTED PARKS www.olmsted.ord