Recent Press
TPP recently facilitated a highly successful 3-day community-based workshop for the tornado stricken historic downtown area in Goderich. (Read More)
TPP's work on River City was recently featured by John Bentley Mays in the Globe and Mail (Read More)
The final public meeting on the Front Street Plaza Environmental Assessment was recently held and covered by Spacing Magazine (Read More) and CBC Radio (Follow Link to Podcast) http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2011/11/03/safer-front-street/
TPP presented the draft form-based 500 Lot Area Development Standards & Guidelines for Charlottetown (Read More)
TPP's recently completed Sherbourne Park continues to receive positive review from the design and environmental communities, including the Globe's architectural critic, Lisa Rochon (Read More) and a feature in ReNew Canada (Read More).
See Christopher Hume's comments on the important role of TPP's Sherbourne Park in city-building. See Video.
In a recent feature story for the Globe and Mail, Harold Madi comments on the shifting roles of the public, non-governmental and private sectors in initiating and financing visioning and planning projects. Read More.
TPP's work on the John Street Transformation was recently featured in the Globe and Mail. Read more.
Wellington community approves TPP's Clarence Square. Michael Ormston-Holloway comments on the important features of the park. Read more.
Construction has begun for TPP's Underpass Park. Read more about how the park will transform Toronto's lower east side.
Recent Awards
Sherbourne Common - was the recent recipient of the 2011 Gold Design Exchange Award
John Street Arts & Culture Promenade - was the recent recipient of the first annual 2011 Toronto Business Improvement Areas Awards
Bloorcourt Village Capital Improvement Plan - was the recent recipient of the first annual 2011 Toronto Business Improvement Areas Awards
Sugar Beach - was the recipient of a 2011 City of Toronto Urban Design Award
Brantford Waterfront Master Plan - was the recent recipient of the National Merit Award from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Read More.
Grand Cornell – Neighbourhood was recently awarded the winner of Community Design for the Town of Markham 2010 Design Excellence Awards. Contact us for more information about this project.
HRMbyDESIGN – Downtown Halifax Plan was the recent recipient of awards in City Planning from Canadian Institute of Planners and in Urban Design from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Read more.
Recent Announcements
John Tassiopoulos was reappointed to the Committee of Adjustment - Toronto & East York District
TPP is pleased to announce Wai Ying DiGiorgio has joined us as a new Associate. Wai brings 15-years of experience in urban design and landscape architecture.
TPP is please to announce the following new planners and designers to the team: Karen Arnold, Nancy Chater, Robert Cram, Pamela Tung and Wei Pang.
Harold Madi was recently appointed to the newly established City of Vaughan Design Review Panel.
David Leinster was recently appointed chair of the City of Ottawa Urban Design Review Panel.
New Major Projects
TPP was recently retained by the Waterfront Development Corporation and Halifax Regional Municipality to prepare a Comprehensive Planning Study for Dartmouth Cove - a new potential mixed-use neighbourhood on a waterfront brownfield site adjacent to Downtown Dartmouth
TPP was recently retained to prepare Town House Urban Design Guidelines for the City of Brampton
TPP was recently retained to undertake a Downtown Revitalization Plan for Goderich, Ontario's core area that was stricken by a tornado this past summer
TPP was recently retained to undertake an Employment Lands Strategy for Calgary, Alberta
TPP was recently retained to undertake a Public Art Master Plan for Lethbridge, Alberta
TPP in collaboration with Delcan and Ken Greenberg was recently retained to undertake the Downtown Ottawa Mobility Overlay
TPP in collaboration with AECOM was recently retained by Metrolinx to undertake the Mount Dennis Mobility Hub Study
TPP in collaboration Halcrow Consulting with was recently retained by Metrolinx to undertake the Barrie GO Corridor Study
TPP with Ken Greenberg have been retained by a University of Toronto-led consortium of medical/research institutions to prepare a Strategic Real Estate Plan for Toronto's Discovery District