hapa wins re:connect ideas competition

 

Hapa Collaborative is proud to announce our second competition win in three years.  Hapa was selected as the winner of the re|connect Ideas Competition, an international design review to generate ideas for the Viaducts and Eastern Core of downtown.  Hapa's proposal was selected from over two dozen submittals from around the world, including competitors from Europe and Asia, and was chosen as the winner of the Connecting the Core category, which focused on a new future for the area east of the Canadian National Railway station up to Clark Drive.

Our proposal is called Darn, a strategy to mend the hole in the Eastern Core’s weave of streets, stitching the frayed ends of the remnant street grid to give connective strength between this area and its adjacent neighbourhoods. We propose to ‘darn’ the urban fabric in three critical locations to allow pedestrian and bike access, link over isolating features including railyards and private lands, and knot together a network that reengages the Eastern Core—an area roughly equal in size to Stanley Park—with Strathcona, Mount Pleasant, the False Creek waterfront and East Vancouver.

Hapa would like to congratulate the other winners in the competition, and thank the jury for selecting our proposal above those of many other worthy submittals.

Comments

[Joe McGill]

Interesting proposal and certainly of value to the community or you would not have been selected a winner. I would love to read and see more of this proposal.

[Joseph Fry]

Thanks Joe . . . I'll send you a copy if you like. As for where it goes from here, I hope further than our last competition win! The City of Vancouver will need to take this further, otherwise it will be viewed as a feeble attempt at a public relations smokescreen.