Vaughan design review panel agendas

NRU
April 26, 2017

The Design Review Panel will consider the following items at its meeting Thursday, April 27 at 9:15 a.m. in committee room 243, city hall.

9:30 a.m.
VMC mixed-use buildings - The panel will undertake its second review of Hilton Garden Inn’s proposed mixed-use development at 3201 Highway 7, in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The proposal includes two 55-storey residential towers and one 43-storey mixed-use building comprising a hotel, retail and residential uses.

Presentations will be made by Vaughan urban designer Shahrzad Davoudi-Strike, Page + Steele IBI Group Architects executive vice-president Mansoor Kazerouni and John Zipay & Associates president John Zipay.

10:55 a.m.
VMC Towers - The panel will undertake its second review of Penguin-Calloway (Vaughan) and  CentreCourt’s proposed high-rise residential development and integrated parking structure for the southeast corner of the future Buttermill Avenue and Portage Parkway in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The proposal incorporates two 55-storey residential towers integrated with a seven-storey parking structure, and screened by at-grade townhouses along the future Buttermill Avenue frontage.

Presentations will be made by Vaughan VMC project manager Amy Roots, Diamond Schmitt Architects principal Donald Schmitt and Claude Cormier + Associes principal Claude Cormier.

12:35 p.m.
Vaughan fire hall - The panel will undertake its first review of the proposed 538 m2 City of Vaughan Fire Hall 7-4, which will consist of a central apparatus bay, a circulation atrium and associated office and fire hall uses. The new fire station is proposed to be a single-storey building with mezzanine and will be certified at a minimum of LEED Silver.

The architectural treatment of the fire station is to be a durable palette of building materials including stone and brick masonry, precast stone trim, standing seam metal roof and aluminum windows. The property is located within the Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District. Presentations will be made by Vaughan urban designer Audrey Farias, Vaughan cultural heritage coordinator Shelby Blundell and Thomas Brown Architects architects Chris Kubbinga and Sebastian Lubczynski.