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Peter Busby

@peterbusby

Global Design Principal, did not tweet for 4 years. Now Tweeting occasionally about Climate and Design

 San Francisco & Vancouver, BC
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Joined October 2010
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Some of Ontario’s top architects and landscape architects push back on Bill 23 kpmb.com/news/response-to-on…
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October 2022 Newsletter. Most beautiful bridges in canada. Grimshaw But made in Halifax!! mailchi.mp/waterfrontoronto/…

October 2022 Newsletter

A Waterfront for Everyone: here's your October newsletter from Waterfront Toronto. Inside, read about the newly opened Cherry Street South bridge, the inaugural Waterfront Design Review Panel Award...

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The Nancy Pauw Bridge, Banff structurecraft.com/projects/…. Very beautiful and very low carbon. The best!!!

The Nancy Pauw Bridge | Banff, AB

The Nancy Pauw Bridge spans the Bow River with stepped glulam girders and weathering steel haunches, engineered and built by StructureCraft.

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There could still (!) be huge benefits in rethinking the expressway. theglobeandmail.com/arts/art… #topoli #toronto
John Tory doesn’t want to discuss the Gardiner Expressway - but Toronto should

John Tory doesn’t want to discuss the Gardiner Expressway - but Toronto should

Construction on the final section of the Gardiner East won’t begin until 2026. Mr. Tory suggested in one debate that it’s too late to alter the plans. It is not

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Congratulations to my amazing partner Gabrielle Bullock, so proud of her contributions to the industry! linkedin.com/posts/perkins-w…
Headed out fishing, hopefully this will happen to me!! cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…

B.C. women get an up-close encounter with humpback whale off coast of Vancouver Island | CBC News

Two B.C. women had a close encounter with a humpback whale in Georgia Strait, in what a marine biologist hopes is a sign of good things for the mammal’s population in B.C.

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Sweet pocket park by Claude Cormier, with The Well towering in the background. #landarch #landscapearchitecture #toronto instagram.com/p/CfCqMiwPs_G/ – at Toronto, Ontario
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Forget returning to the office. The future of cities lies in vibrant civic spaces fastcompany.com/90761942/for…

Forget returning to the office. The future of cities lies in vibrant civic spaces

For so long, modern city life has been centered around work. Now, cities should invest in public spaces like parks, libraries, community centers, and better transportation options that drive people...

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Great to be back in Rome. The pantheon 67 BC. One of the finest buildings ever!!
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Very Fantastic!!!
Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) profile pictureMeanwhile in Canada@MeanwhileinCana7 Jun 2022
A Blue Whale was spotted off the coast of Vancouver Island yesterday. The largest animal to ever grace this planet. The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons. Some male Blue Whales weigh as much as 200 tons. A Blue Whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs.
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A Blue Whale was spotted off the coast of Vancouver Island yesterday. The largest animal to ever grace this planet. The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons. Some male Blue Whales weigh as much as 200 tons. A Blue Whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs.
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This is fantastic infrastructure architecture!! Imagine if all public works allowed this kind of excellence!!
Alex Bozikovic (@alexbozikovic) profile pictureAlex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic7 Jun 2022
Replying to @alexbozikovic
.@GH3architects’s stormwater facility, which is infrastructure as sculpture: theglobeandmail.com/arts/art…
A Toronto stormwater plant delivers clean water and high design

A Toronto stormwater plant delivers clean water and high design

Architecture firm GH3 designs stormwater treatment facility with tanks and pumps that will clean the water from the neighbourhood’s drains

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.@GH3architects’s stormwater facility, which is infrastructure as sculpture: theglobeandmail.com/arts/art… – at Toronto, Ontario
A Toronto stormwater plant delivers clean water and high design

A Toronto stormwater plant delivers clean water and high design

Architecture firm GH3 designs stormwater treatment facility with tanks and pumps that will clean the water from the neighbourhood’s drains

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Opinion | It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore. - The New York Times. Still so powerful. Remembering the day and the photo. Save the Ukraine!! nytimes.com/2022/06/06/opini…
CAGBC 20 th anniversary Good times with the founders!! Toronto reunion
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My column on the good sense of Vancouver’s Broadway plan, and the rampant bad faith of its opponents: theglobeandmail.com/arts/art…
Broadway plan will make way for the density Vancouver needs to accommodate growth

Broadway plan will make way for the density Vancouver needs to accommodate growth

30-year proposal to reshape the corridor would deliver much-needed new housing and community facilities, in a place where growth makes obvious sense, but the plan is too radical for some

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messaging-custom-newsletters… Great piece on Corporate Carbon commitments. No more greenwashing!!
New Google Campus by BIG and Heatherwick Studio Opens for Business architecturalrecord.com/arti… Amazing!! Congratulations!!
Mixed use above mass transit. Rental housing with 20% below market. The amazing thing is that took three multi-hour meetings for city council to approve this.
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@iamkennethchan26 Apr 2022
BREAKING... In a 9-2 vote, Vancouver City Council has approved the 39-storey tower above #SkyTrain's future South Granville Station. Broadway's new tallest: 223 rental homes, 100,000 sf office, 30,000 sf retail including a grocery store & the station entrance. #vanpoli #vanre
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Want affordable housing and climate-friendly transit to UBC? SkyTrain to UBC will open up options across the line and make sustainable transportation easier. Let TransLink know you support investment in Metro Vancouver transit and that it’s time to build SkyTrain to UBC.

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