Repurposing a 91-year-old Garbage Incinerator

Submitted by dfoolen on October 6th, 2016 4:23 PM

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Karen Landman

Master of Landscape Architecture students Elizabeth Birks, Matthew Cooper and Michal Laszczuk participated in the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario's [1] NextGen 5th Annual Design Charrette. This year, the design focus was on the Wellington Destructor [2], a former garbage incinerator located near Fort York in Toronto. Built in 1925 and abandoned since the 1960s, this post-industrial site offered a wonderful opportunity for design investigation for adaptive reuse.

participants in front of Wellington Destructor, a former garbage incinerator
Participants of 2016 NextGen 5th Annual Design Charrette

See Now Toronto online news article titled Wellington Destructor rises again [3] for more information.

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