QIDDIYA DISTRICTS MASTER PLAN Saudi Arabia, 2022 - Present Status: Client approval in progress. Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› Achieved commercial viability whilst balancing Saudi and expat expectations of form, user experience, product, and identity. ›› Lead urban designer/master planner to ensure town centre viability & integration with golf, leisure, recreation facilities. ›› Inter-consultancy collaboration. ›› Private workshop facilitation. ›› Scenario testing, documentation, digital modelling, and rendering artist liaison.
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Rajio | Brown’s Social House | Suika
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Gastown Tacofino | Revolver | L’Abbatoir | Ask for Luigi | Meat & Bread | Soft Peaks | Timbertrain Coffee
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False Creek Dog Park | David Lam Park | Creekside Park | False Creek Tennis Club | Science World
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AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE VILLAGE CORE (KAMBRI) MASTER PLAN & URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK Canberra, Australia, 2018 Status: Stage 1 built, Stage 2 in-progress. Awards: ACT Architecture Awards 2020 in Public Architecture, Urban Design, Commercial Architecture, Educational Architecture and Sustainable Architecture. Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› Broke down silos & synergized cross-faculty analytics to create a comprehensive master plan that integrate education, living, retail/F&B, culture, events, health & wellbeing, facilities reuse/adaptation, and ANU identity & showcasing. ›› Lead urban designer/master planner & project manager collaborating with ANU staff to revitalize the University’s core as a catalytic & destinational precinct for students (19,000), staff (4,000), residents (470,000), and visitors (5 mil yearly). ›› Architect & landscape architect tender review & awarding. ›› Developed & final design phase collaboration with architects (BVN) & landscape architects (Aspect). ›› Private & public workshop facilitation. ›› Integrated deep sustainability strategies (embodied carbon, energy, flooding) from masterplanning phase to achieve full life cycle carbon neutrality or better.
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NORTHEAST FALSE CREEK WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN Vancouver, Canada, 2017 - Present Status: Council adopted, revision inprogress. Awards: American Planning Association Pierre L’Enfant International Planning Award 2019 in conjunction with City Council. Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› First major downtown redevelopment incorporating stadia, district energy, sea level rise, and ecological restoration. ›› Redefining & initiating redevelopment of major multi-modal transportation routes, connections, and infrastructure upgrades/downgrades. ›› Identified and established broader strategic acquisitions for client - cityprovince negotiations. ›› Lead urban designer/master planner & project manager collaborating with city staff and adjacent landowners’ teams to create an integrated mixed use tourism, retail, entertainment, and waterfront master plan & strategy for downtown residents (120,000), Vancouver (2.6mil), and visitors (8 mil yearly). ›› Documentation & production including VR. ›› Private & public workshop facilitation.
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CHANGSHAH 4-SEASONS RESORT COMMUNITY PLAN Zhejiang, China, 2017 Status: Under construction. Awards: 2017 Global Human Settlements Awards on Planning and Design - United Nations Environment Programme Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› Demonstrates Sponge Cities initiative integrated with resort living, recreational activities, and identity branding. ›› Supporting urban designer/master planner. ›› R&D of Sponge Cities initiative ›› Documentation, digital modelling, and rendering artist liaison.
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ALEXANDRA PARK CONCEPT MASTER PLAN. ALEXANDRA PARK PHASE 1 CONCEPT PLAN RESOURCE CONSENT PACKAGE. Auckland, 2014-2017
Status: Stage 1 built; Stage 2 under construction Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› Established a new community heart for the neighbourhood that’s been dominated by single-use racecourse. ›› Defined the commercial terms & strategy for full redevelopment of racecourse site and detailed strategy for viable Phase 1. ›› Created a comprehensive master plan that integrated medium rise housing, commercial uses, hotel, retail, cafes and restaurants, with upgraded racing facilities while combining new parks, plazas, and open spaces that reinforced near-term racing activities while ensuring far-future community viability after racecourse exit. ›› Lead urban designer/master planner & project/contract manager collaborating with racecourse staff, consulting engineers, and statutory planners. ›› Architect & landscape architect tender review & awarding. ›› Developed & final design phase collaboration with architects (RTA Studio). ›› Private & public workshop facilitation.
Land Use Table
GFA
No. Units
Residential
215,600sqm
1800-2000
Retail / F&B Anchor - Grocery/Cinemas
19,700sqm 5,400sqm
Office / Medical
16,400sqm
Service Apartments/ Hotel
11,100sqm
Community / Civic Community School
2,800sqm 4,700sqm
Parks and Open Space
3.0 ha
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SOK NG Strategic Master Planner & Senior Urban Designer (Cities, Mixed Use, TOD, Catalysts) sng010@gmail.com
CIVITAS Urban Design and Planning Legend
Low-rise Apt Mid-rise Apt
Town House
Office Retail
Hotel Community
Park
CONCEPT PLAN Alexandra Park October 2013
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HIGHPOINT TOWN CENTRE MALL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN Melbourne, Australia, 2011 - 2015 Status: Stage 1 built, Stage 2 update in-progress. Awards: 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards-Interior Design Retail Impact (with Grimshaw and Buchan). 2015 Property Council of Australia - VIC Development of the Year. Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› Establish paradigm shift in Centre’s development & retail strategy by combining civic infrastructure with environmental placemaking design as leading design drivers. ›› Urban designer collaborating with client to ensure effective integration of retail with placemaking strategy. ›› Establishing in-house Revit & BIM processes. ›› Achieves 100% fresh air internal ventilation.
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KHAMS SHAMAT MASTER PLAN Syria, 2011-2012 Status: Client approved. Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› Revised existing concept plan to create a commercially viable master plan for a premier resort integrating entertainment & recreation tourism with living communities for Syrian & expat market. ›› Urban designer/master planner collaborating with client, consulting designers & engineers to ensure effective integration of transportation, mobility, entertainment, events, resort, retail, commercial and residential with placemaking & public realm strategy. ›› Provided documentation lead management, digital modelling, and rendering artist liaison.
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BLATCHFORD AIRPORT-CITY REDEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN Edmonton, Canada, 2011 Status: Adopted. Awards: RAIC National Urban Design Award 2014 with Perkins+Will. Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations: ›› Established viable multi-sectoral vision for large-scale sustainable community alternative to status quo. ›› Comprehensive integration of carbon neutral and environmental strategies with built form, public realm, transportation, energy, economics, and heritage placemaking. ›› One of the first district-scale LEED ND projects in Canada. ›› Lead urban designer/master planner. ›› Inter-consultancy collaboration, including Perkins+Will secondment. ›› Urban Design guidelines co-author.
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Miscellaneous Projects & Experience Australia & New Zealand
Canada & USA
Asia & Middle East
UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY DIGITAL SCREEN CAMPUS FEASILIBITY STUDY & URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK Christchurch, 2021-2022
ST. PAULS REDEVELOPMENT FEASIBLITY STUDY Vancouver, BC, 2019 - Present. Resulted in $1B property transaction. Masterplanning for vertical complete community.
AMAALA ROYAL RESORT STUDY Saudi Arabia, 2019-2020 with Fosters + Partners, Denniston. Refinement of master plan for deep sustainability and ecological sensitivity with identity.
PRINCE RUPERT 2030 VISION PLAN British Columbia, Canada, 2019 Awards: Planning Institute of British Columbia Planning Practice Excellence 2022.
NINGBO CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY PORT Ningbo, China, 2019 Redevelopment of port lands into knowledge economy mixed use district.
DRURY METROPOLITAN CENTRE MASTER PLAN Auckland, New Zealand, 2018 - Present Major greenfields development for 20k pop. town centre and +80k pop. community.
CROWN STREET MALL/CITY CENTRE URBAN DESIGN DIRECTIONS PAPER RUPERT-RENFREW SKYTRAIN PRECINCT Wollongong, NSW, 2021 REDEVELOPMENT CONCEPT PLAN Downtown precinct revitalization framework. Vancouver, BC, 2018 - Present. Roadmapping for innovative jobs and WIN GRAND CONCEPT PLAN population growth precinct transitioning Wollongong, NSW, 2019 light industrial to mixed use and film-making. 200k sm mixed use catalyst development at City’s heart. VANCOUVER VIEW CONE IMPACT ANALYSIS Vancouver, BC, 2018-2022 NORTHSHORE LANDS STUDY & COUNCIL WORKSHOP. BRAMPTON VISION 2040 ROMA STREET PARKLAND REDEVELOPMENT Brampton, Ontario, 2017 STUDY Brisbane, 2018 BAYSHORE WATERFRONT CONCEPT PLAN. Investigation into new uses including Vancouver, British Columbia, 2017 Olympics hosting. with Renzo Piano. WOLLONGONG CITY CENTRE STUDY Wollongong, NSW, 2011
SOUTH BEACH DUBAI UAE, 2015 Greenfields resort master plan for expat and local investment and living. AL MAMZAR CONCEPT MASTER PLAN Dubai, UAE, 2013 Offshore island master plan for marina-based resort living and investment. XINDENG CITY CENTRE CONCEPT PLAN Hangzhou, China, 2013 Greenfields development of a river/canalcentric complete community.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CAMPUS CONCEPT PLAN Dekalb, IL, 2016
ROUSE HILL TOWN CENTRE STAGE 2 MASTER PLAN REVISION. CALGARY CENTRE CITY URBAN DESIGN ROUSE HILL TOD-RAIL STATION INTEGRATION GUIDELINES STUDY. Calgary, Canada, 2014 Sydney, NSW, 2011-2019 CURRIE BARRACKS TOWN CENTRE MASTER PLAN Calgary, Canada, 2014 Awards: 2016 CNU - Charter Award
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