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Placemaking

Our wide range of architecture and urbanism services are now brought to you by Arcadis, the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.  

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Our multi-disciplinary Placemaking practice produces long-term strategies that position communities for success in every aspect of the urban experience – from day-to-day living, learning and health, to major transportation and infrastructural growth.

Our team of Placemaking experts apply a human-centric design approach that recognizes the interconnections between people and their physical environments, leveraging opportunities to put low-impact development and sustainability at the forefront of urban change.

Shaping communities

The multi-disciplinary nature of IBI Group’s Placemaking practice allows every facet of a community to be considered holistically, ensuring that the resulting place focuses on healthy living, accessibility, lifestyle choice, and vibrant activities and amenities.

Creating urban places around transit infrastructure

Transit-oriented development (TOD) patterns support the creation of vibrant, diverse and livable places. As a method of curbing sprawl and reliance on auto-travel in our communities, we recognize the power of place creation alongside linear infrastructure such as rail, bus rapid transit, and active transportation networks.

Strategic planning through IBI Quantum

We are continually looking for ways to shift the perception of technology from a ‘futuristic’ part of our urban environments, to a seamless function of our everyday lives, integrating smart technologies like our proprietary IBI Quantum into our design of distinct and vibrant places.

Planning for a resilient future

Our placemaking focus provides the platform for the innovative thinking that is necessary to developing adaptive and flexible designs in the face of rapid societal change, carefully balancing social, environmental and economic priorities within the design of a community.

Shaping unique, healthy and inclusive urban places.

Meet more of our Placemaking experts
View Barnsley Town Centre Redevelopment project

Barnsley Town Centre Redevelopment

Barnsley, UK

Our multidisciplinary design team is working on an ambitious project to transform and regenerate Barnsley’s town centre, comprehensively redesigning the heart of the once industrial town.

View Master Development Plan of the Los Angeles Civic Center project

Master Development Plan of the Los Angeles Civic Center

Los Angeles, CA

Our master development plan presented a holistic vision for a vibrant mixed-use community uniting municipal, cultural, retail and residential facilities in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, California.

View Valley Line LRT project

Valley Line LRT

Edmonton, AB

A $1.8 billion undertaking, Stage One of the Valley Line LRT will dramatically improve commute times and the overall public transport experience for Edmontonians. Part of an international design team for the project, this stage extends 13.1 km from downtown to the Mill Woods Town Centre in Edmonton.

View North Bank Bridge Park project

North Bank Bridge Park

Boston and Cambridge, MA

IBI Group, as an equal partner in a Joint Venture that consisted of Greenman-Pederson Inc., WSP (formerly Ammann & Whitney), and Stantec (formerly Vollmer Associates), designed the final piece of the waterfront park system in the New Charles River Basin, located beneath the new Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge.

View Toronto Railway Lands project

Toronto Railway Lands

Toronto, ON

IBI Group has been instrumental in the redevelopment of the Toronto Railway Lands, which occupy approximately 80 hectares (about 200 acres) of land between the financial core of Toronto and its waterfront.

Adding social and economic value to cities through Landscape Architecture and Planning & Urban Design. Learn more below.

Landscape Architecture

Our award-winning landscape architecture practice is one of the largest in the world, and is driven by holistic, collaborative, environmentally responsible design. It has earned IBI Group recognition as an emerging global leader in the fields of landscape architecture and sustainable planning.

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Planning & Urban Design

Our collaborative planning practice produces long-term strategies that position communities for success in every aspect of the urban experience – from day-to-day living, learning and health, to major transportation and infrastructural growth. We’re designing the next “world-class” cities.

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