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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Main building, watershed restoration building and site on Ramsey Lake, northeastern Ontario, Canada.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Lake shore view: an iconic building and model for sustainable living on the shore of the city’s drinking water reservoir.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    View from bay.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    View from lake.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Aerial view from lake.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Sudbury: City of lakes.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Ground floor.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Second floor.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Design charette.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Watershed mapping scientists.

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    Project entry 2008 North America – Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Holcim Awards Bronze 2008 North America winners (l-r): Peter Busby, architect, Peter Busby and Wills Architects, Vancouver BC, Canada, and John Gunn, scientist, Laurentian University, Sudbury Ont., Canada.

It has taken many different measures over a number of years to rehabilitate the severely degraded environment of an acid-rain drenched mining city into a healthy landscape again. Symbolic of the metamorphosis is the Living with Lakes Center for freshwater restoration and research. Its interdisciplinary team is guided by the mantra of “restore, reduce and renew”.

Last updated: February 29, 2008 Sudbury, ON, Canada