新的购物中心广场为Markham的亚洲社区提供了新的零售和公共空间
New shopping centre and plaza provides new retail and public space for Markham's Asian community
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位于多伦多北部城市Markham,Remington中心将是亚洲最大的零售购物中心,并被《多伦多星报》评为“…一个亚洲加拿大市场的时代广场的。
Located in the City of Markham, immediately north of Toronto, The Remington Centre will be the largest Asian-directed retail shopping centre outside of Asia when completed, and has been described by The Toronto Star as “... a Times Square for the Asian-Canadian market."


这个项目专门针对一系列问题所固有的集约化的郊区腹地，大多伦多地区。最基本的,它代表了拆除现有的郊区购物中心周围巨大的,糟糕的布局,铺砌的区域的表面用最小的景观,停车替换以现代,清楚地详细、能源效率、封闭的多层购物中心。

This project deals specifically with a number of issues inherent in the intensification of the suburban hinterland of the Greater Toronto Area. At its most basic, it represents the demolition of an existing suburban strip mall surrounded by vast, poorly laid out, paved areas of surface parking with minimal landscaping, and its replacement with a modern, crisply detailed, energy efficient, enclosed multi-storey mall.


该基地的位置几乎在前一个主要交通节点上，不仅允许强化零售空间,也添加了重要的住宅使用,提供两个高层塔楼。这些将作为基地的灯塔,作为一个公共广场下面的标记,进而识别门户城市Markham。
The site’s location almost immediately on top of a soon-to-be major transportation node allows for intensification not only of the retail space, but also for the addition of significant residential use, which is provided in two high-rise towers. These will act as a beacon to the site, and as a marker to the public plaza below, which in turn identifies a gateway to the City of Markham.


在内部,这个800000平方英尺的建筑包含大小不同的零售单位,从125年到5000平方英尺,围绕一系列主题的法院,纵向上互连,横向连接主要步行购物区所覆盖玻璃窗,提供渗透到内部的最大的自然日光大型波纹板。建筑是固定中点的两级性能的舞台空间,一个主要公共广场被南端的基地提供,包括一个水功能,它将在冬天作为一个滑冰场,在温暖的月份作为性能空间。
Internally, the 800,000-sq-ft building contains retail units of sizes varying from 125 to 5,000 sq ft, organised around a series of themed courts, which vertically interconnect the floors, and which are horizontally connected by major pedestrian malls surmounted by clerestorey glazing, providing maximum natural daylight penetration to the interiors of the large floor plates. The building is anchored at the mid-point by a two-level performance/stage space, and a major public plaza is provided at the south end of the site that includes a water feature which will be utilised as a skating rink in winter, and as a performance space in warmer months.


该项目将包括加拿大最大的地热安装,再加上其他节能机电系统，与传统的系统消费基础相比，将提供一个净能量减少到34%基础上一个能源成本的43%的系统。
The project will include what will be the largest geothermal installation in Canada when completed, which coupled with other energy-efficient mechanical and electrical systems will provide a net energy reduction of between 34% on an energy costs basis and 43% on a consumption basis compared to conventional systems.


它还代表了一种复兴,使其从“中心冰”变到一个重要的多伦多亚洲社区中心,显著增加了酒吧质量的零售和公共空间,包含(相对于更高质量的零售购物中心的香港和上海)并在程序内部和外部的公共空间提供一个公认的社区文化活动的机会。
It also represents a revitalisation of what has become 'centre ice' to a significant majority of Greater Toronto’s Asian community into a centre that significantly raises the bar in the quality of the retail and public spaces that it contains (comparable to the higher quality retail shopping malls of Hong Kong and Shanghai) and provides a recognisable opportunity for community cultural events in the programmed interior and exterior public spaces, developed in consultation with Markham’s Asian community.