An award-winning team committed to delivering on principles of excellence in design, livability, ecological restoration, and environmental sustainability
Tyndale Green is led by some of Canada’s most respected and experienced experts in their fields. They are committed to making Tyndale Green a community that Toronto, Ontario, and Canada can be proud of: An illustration of what 21st-century communities can be when affordability, livability, and environmental stewardship are the key driving principles of housing development.
KPMB Architects
“I'm inspired by the scale and beauty of this site, and the vision of integrating great design with quality and affordability. With the combination of existing campus buildings, the new homes that we will be adding to the site, and the ravine setting, Tyndale Green truly holds the potential to become a vital and cherished community place.”
— Shirley Blumberg, KPMB Architects
KPMB’s designs prioritize the quality of the human experience through the creation of vibrant communities and sustainable cities and places. An overriding theme of the practice has been placing contemporary architecture in an evolving dynamic relationship with what exists to support the vitality of the urban condition and contribute to cultivating an open, civil and pluralistic society. Their work is characterized as a hybrid form of architecture oscillating between regional and local identity and global influence; time past and present and future.
Their approach is collaborative and based on integrated design thinking and processes. KPMB’s services are inclusive of architecture, interior design, master planning, workplace strategy, and enriched by their interdisciplinary research forum, the KPMB Lab. This has resulted in a very diverse portfolio of work, which reinforces their commitment to building a culture of diversity and inclusion. Since 2000, KPMB has designed and delivered on over 27 million square feet. of projects across North America and across sectors of business, culture, education, mixed-use residential and office developments, government, healthcare, and hospitality.
Established in 1987, KPMB’s work has been continuously recognized for architectural excellence and has received over 300 awards, including 16 Governor General’s Medals, Canada’s highest honour. The founding partners, Bruce Kuwabara, Marianne McKenna, and Shirley Blumberg are each recipients of the Order of Canada for their contribution to Canadian culture and society.
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, 2010, KPMB
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building & Louis A. Simpson International Building, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2017, KPMB
The Wyatt, Regent Park, Toronto, KPMB
Gardiner Museum, Toronto, 2006, KPMB
Shirley Blumberg
Founding Partner, CM, OAA, FRAIC, AIA
Shirley Blumberg, CM, OAA, FRAIC, AIA is a founding partner of KPMB Architects and a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to architecture and for her commitment to creating spaces that foster a sense of community. She studied at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and, after immigrating to Canada, completed her education at the University of Toronto.
After working for Barton Myers Associates, she co-founded Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects in 1987. At KPMB, she has designed many of the firm’s noteworthy and award-winning projects, including the Fort York Public Library, the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre at UBC, and the Centre for International Governance Innovation Campus (CIGI), recipient of a Governor General’s Medal, an American Institute of Architects Honor Award and a Royal Institute of British Architects International Award. She was also the design partner for a major mixed-use academic and student residential complex, Ponderosa Hub, at the University of British Columbia, which opened in 2016. Recently completed projects she has led include the Global Centre for Pluralism for the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada in Ottawa and the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building and the Louis A. Simpson International Building at Princeton University, and the Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan.
Shirley is a member of the Toronto Community Housing Design Review Panel and established Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT), an independent initiative dedicated to the promotion of equality in the profession of architecture.
Bruno Weber
Partner
Bruno Weber joined KPMB Architects in 2000. He is committed to making architecture that cultivates community and brings together diverse groups to work together for a better world.
KPMB’s reputation has been enriched by Bruno’s influential contributions to a series of winning design competitions. These include the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal (2015, with West 8 and Greenberg Associates) and Pier 8 in Hamilton (2018). For Pier 8, Bruno led an integrated design team comprising KPMB, Superkül, Gh3 Inc., and Omar Gandhi Architect. He also played a key role on the Star Alliance Lounge for the Zurich International Airport (2000), TIFF Bell Lightbox (2003), and the Rotman School at the University of Toronto (2008).
Bruno’s diverse portfolio includes a series of developments that have transformed major urban precincts into vibrant, pedestrian-friendly destinations. In Toronto, this work includes the 2004 Railway Lands West Master Plan, and the Neo and Montage towers at Concord CityPlace, The Wyatt Block 26 Regent Park Development, and Block 16 in the Canary District. Bruno was the project architect for the SugarCube (2009) which introduced a new model for urban development in the LoDo, Denver’s historic district. He continues to contribute to the development of the LoDo, currently exploring the feasibility of high-rise development.
From 2010 to 2015 Bruno was KPMB’s principal-in-charge of a series of projects at the University of British Columbia. These included Robert Lee Alumni Centre (2015) and Ponderosa Commons, UBC’s first mixed-use live/work/study/play hub.
Bruno has a strong commitment to professional mentorship. In 2019 he spoke at the SymposYAH: Hamilton’s Development Renaissance and served as an expert partner for My TO in 10: Social Innovation Youth Challenge at the Design Exchange. His interest in socioeconomic justice has led to work with Indigenous Northern Housing and the NRCC Path to Healthy Homes Program for Indigenous Communities.
The Planning Partnership
Landsape Architect and Arborist
The Planning Partnership (TPP) is committed to co-creating complete and liveable environments with their clients and the community. Their mission is to be highly collaborative, fully engaged and dedicated to innovation and excellence in design. They are responsible to their professions, their clients, to each other, and, in so doing, to the success of the communities they help to shape.
Located in Toronto, The Planning Partnership Ltd. was established in 2002 to provide a full range of consulting services to public and private sector clients. Over the years, they have continued to grow and evolve to include seven principals and a staff of twenty-three individuals with diverse expertise in urban planning, policy development, urban design, landscape architecture, landscape ecology, architectural control, public consultation, and graphic communications.
TPP works at all scales, from regional to municipal, to community to neighbourhood, to site-specific, and in both urban and rural settings. We work for local and regional municipalities, the provincial government, major institutions, community groups, business associations, and the private sector.
The firm’s approach is truly interdisciplinary with four key areas of expertise: urban planning, landscape architecture, urban design & communication. Each discipline is considered through a progressive lens, unique to their firm.
Queen’s Park North, Toronto, The Planning Partnership
Michael Ormston-Holloway
Principal, Landscape Architecture + Urban Ecology / BSc, MSc P, GDHort, MLA, ASLA, ISA Certified Arborist
Working at the intersection of landscape architecture and arboricultural ecology, Michael develops landscapes that push the boundaries of design resiliency. Michael’s design philosophy is rooted in renegotiating the delicate balance between urban and natural processes, in such a way that reveals natural environments in a connected, and wholesome manner. His background in biological and ecological sciences provides a strong scientific foundation that informs The Planning Partnership’s work.
“The existing Tyndale campus is already a destination for continuing education, passive recreation, migratory songbirds, pollinating insects, and a meandering and mighty river. The re-envisioning of that campus, through Tyndale Green, will add a vibrancy with a residential community, extending the hours of use, and bringing a new sense of place: one geared toward sustainable communities and a vibrant public realm.”
— Michael Ormston-Holloway, The Planning Partnership
BA Group
Transportation Consultant
Since 1974 BA Group has earned a reputation for solving the most complex of challenges through the application of creative thinking, innovative tools, and vast amounts of custom field data from Canada and abroad.
BA Group collaborates with architects, planners, lawyers, developers, governments, and other consultancies to help integrate transportation systems into the seamless operation of municipal infrastructure, office, and residential complexes, shopping centres, hospitals and universities, industrial projects, arenas for sport, and a host of other large-scale facilities.
Creativity and collaboration are an integral part of BA Group’s corporate culture. Working as a close-knit team, they nurture their professional relationships carefully in order to complement and enhance project objectives.
Alun Lloyd
Principal / P. Engineering
A member of the BA team since 1995, Alun has over 20 years of experience in transportation planning and engineering here in Canada and in the UK, where he began his career.
Alun has gained the respect of his peers and clients with his thorough and professional approach. His résumé includes hundreds of traffic, transportation and parking studies, and the planning and design of site vehicular and parking systems in some of the most challenging of circumstances. He has a reputation preparing excellent community and neighbourhood master and public realm plans. Alun also provides services relating to the planning of roadway schemes and traffic management during construction projects, and he has successfully represented clients at public meetings and at the Ontario Municipal Board.
Having worked extensively within urban areas, Alun is intimately familiar with the transportation challenges surrounding the successful integration of new development into complex urban environments.
From 2004 to 2006, Alun was a member of the City of Toronto Roundtable On A Beautiful City, which reported to the Mayor and City Council and focused on developing a clean, vibrant, and beautiful City of Toronto.
“We are striving at Tyndale Green to integrate the very best mobility and sustainable transportation practices within a truly walkable, pedestrian and public realm focussed community. The primacy of, and focus on, the public realm, open spaces and active pedestrian spaces in each and every step of the approach taken to planning this new community has been a central vision that promises to deliver a place that minimizes automobile and vehicle activity within the heart of the project, provides for the services and needs of a truly workable neighbourhood, and creates the kind of place where people can safely enjoy the open spaces around their homes.”
— Alun Lloyd, BA Consulting Group Inc.
Bousfields Inc.
Planning Consultant
Bousfields is one of the preeminent community planning firms in Ontario, with special expertise in urban design, planning policy, community design, development processes, community consultation, and project management. Bousfields offers a full range of land use planning and urban design services to the development industry, municipalities, and government agencies. In addition, as land use planning and urban design specialists, the firm is frequently a prominent team player within multi-disciplinary consortiums of firms having complementary skills.
Emma West
Emma West, Partner, Bousfields Inc.
Emma draws on over eighteen years of experience in land use and environmental planning, with both the private and public sector. She has managed community and city-building projects at all scales from Official Plans to Secondary Plans, Plans of Subdivision, Site Plans, rezonings and minor variances. Emma has successfully led the planning approvals for a number of projects and has acted as an expert witness at the Ontario Municipal Board.
A LEED AP, with a B.Sc., M.Sc. and a Certificate in Urban Design, Emma applies her technical background to the planning process and has prepared a number of sustainable community guidelines and plans. Emma is a Registered Professional Planner and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
ASI Heritage
Heritage and Archaeological Consultant
ASI is a Canadian-owned company that was founded in 1980 in response to increasing public awareness of the importance of the province’s heritage. With offices in Toronto and Burlington, they are the largest archaeological and cultural heritage consulting firm in Ontario. ASI has completed over 5,000 projects throughout Ontario, and with a full time, permanent, staff of over 50 individuals and an additional seasonal staff of up to approximately 50 field technicians, they have the logistical and human resources necessary to bring any cultural heritage management project to fruition.
ASI’s dedicated Cultural Heritage Division has 20 years experience delivering a wide range of heritage planning consulting services related to built heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes. Our team is dedicated to providing outstanding client service through skilled project management and exceptional technical work. We specialize in identification, evaluation, management and strategic planning for cultural heritage resources. This dedicated and multidisciplinary team brings together historians, policy advisors, cultural landscape theorists, anthropologists, environmental planners, and cultural heritage specialists who employ a team approach to provide above ground heritage services. Many have previously worked in municipal or provincial environments and at other consultancies and, as such, understand the diversity of our client needs. Our team includes professional members of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP). Members of ASI’s Cultural Heritage Division are frequently invited to provide lectures and presentations at industry conferences and academic institutions.
Rebecca Sciarra, MA
Partner, ASI Heritage
Rebecca is a Partner with ASI, Director of the company’s Cultural Heritage Division and is the firm’s Principal Heritage Specialist and Senior Project Manager. She has managed and directed large-scale heritage studies, plans and projects in various jurisdictions across Ontario. She has worked in both the private and public sectors, managing hundreds of cultural heritage resources assessments, evaluations, and conservation plans, including heritage impact assessments, heritage conservation district studies and cultural heritage landscape studies in accordance with the Ontario Heritage Act, Ontario and Canada Environmental Assessment Acts, the Green Energy Act, the Planning Act, the Provincial Policy Statement, and as required by municipal official plans across Ontario. Rebecca has a very good understanding of urban and community design principles, issues, and priorities as she frequently manages technical heritage work as part of secondary planning and master planning processes. Rebecca has prepared defensible heritage evaluations for both private and public sector clients, and routinely makes presentations to Heritage Advisory Committee Members and provides strategic advice to provincial agencies and municipal planning staff regarding application of the Ontario Heritage Act and best standards in heritage conservation practice. She has extensive experience applying the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places (2010) and the Ontario Heritage Toolkit. She routinely makes presentations about cultural heritage matters and has been invited as a juror for awards granted by the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) and Heritage Toronto. She was the project manager for two projects granted CAHP awards: City of Toronto Official Plan Heritage Policies (2011) and Cultural Heritage Landscape Assessment of Exhibition Place (2019). She is a member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals, the Ontario Association of Impact Assessment and the National Trust for Canada.
“When this site was opened as the Sister of St. Joseph’s Motherhouse in 1961, it was described as ‘breath-taking’ and when Tyndale University took over the property in the early 2000s, they took care to steward this important complex and property to sustain it for future generations. This tradition continues with Tyndale Green, which sensitively centres its community around the core of the former Motherhouse and its ravine landscape. The design of the site, and its integration of heritage fabric and landscape features, will make it a truly unique and special place in Toronto. It will offer an affordable and walkable community, revealing and expressing its history and character in engaging and delightful ways and continuing its legacy as a place shaped by community builders, educators, and stewardship”
— Rebecca Sciarra, Partner, ASI Heritage