Online News: Dockside Green Development Wins Two More Awards
This past spring, the Dockside Green Development located in Victoria, BC, received two more awards. In May, Dockside Green Limited, the City of Victoria and VicWest Community Association were awarded a "Smarty" and top honours for their proposal and process during Dockside Green's planning stages, at Smart Growth BC's inaugural awards ceremony, held in Vancouver. The "Smarty" was presented during Smart Growth BC's Innovations in Smart Growth Housing conference. Smart Growth BC is a provincial non-governmental organization devoted to fiscally, socially and environmentally responsible land use and development.
In June, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada awarded Dockside Green's architects, Busby, Perkins + Will with a certificate of merit in the category of Approved or Adopted Urban Design Plans as part of its 2006 National Urban Design Awards. These awards are part of a two-tier program held in co-operation with major metropolitan centers in Canada.