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FIRST EDITION - SIGNIFICANT LANDSCAPES PORTFOLIO

Canadian Landscapes Portfolio Collections & Document


NUALA - NUNAVUT ASSOCIATION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS


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NUNAVUT - WHERE THE TANGIBLE AND THE INTANGIBLE MEET


Landscape Architects have been active in Nunavut for many years – both the Landscape Architects practicing in Nunavut, and those from out of territory who have participated in the profession before Nunavut was established as a territory in 1999. Landscape Architects have been involved in municipal planning and development, park planning and management, cultural and historic site protection, wildlife management and conservation, and tourism and economic development.

With the establishment of Nunavut through the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement, it was clear that the professional practice of Landscape Architecture needed to reflect the principles of the land claim and the relationship that Inuit have with their land and its resources. NUALA, the Nunavut Association of Landscape Architects, has a mandate to promote landscape architecture in Nunavut that recognizes and reflects its unique cultural and natural environments, strong cultural landscape connections, and seeks to find balance between structured landscape intervention and the presentation of the Nunavut landscape in its unblemished, natural form. The Nunavut landscape portfolio reflects works from our communities and wilderness environments.

The projects presented are cultural landscapes that are significant places for Inuit and their ancestors with both tangible and intangible attributes.

Selection Committee


By Christopher Grosset

NUNAVUT - WHERE THE TANGIBLE AND THE INTANGIBLE MEET


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Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park

 
Description
▶︎ Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park, located in the capital city of Iqaluit, is the most visited park in the territory. Landscape architects planned the park to provide day use services in balance with presentation of undisturbed arctic scenery, representative of the territories natural environment.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park
▶︎ IIqaluit, NU
 
Author
▶︎ Christopher Grosset, NUALA
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Kugluk Territorial Park

 
Description
▶︎ Located on the Coppermine Heritage River, Kugluk Territorial Park protects and celebrates a seasonal harvesting site that has been used by Inuit and First Nation groups for over three thousand years. Master planned by Landscape Architects, the park's centrepiece is a narrow gorge and rapids used for seasonal fishing and surrounded by layers of archaeological evidence of occupation.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Kugluk Territorial Park
▶︎ Kugluktuk, NU
 
Author
▶︎ Christopher Grosset, NUALA
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Whale Plaza

 
Description
▶︎ Planned as a community gathering space and commemoration of the importance of whaling to Inuit, the Whale Plaza was designed through a charrette process with local residents under the guidance of a Landscape Architect and stone mason. The project was built by residents as a training program in dry-stone walling and construction techniques.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Whale Plaza

▶︎ Coral Harbour, Nunavut
 
Author
▶︎ Christopher Grosset, NUALA
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Iqaluit Square

 
Description
▶︎ Iqaluit Square is located in the heart of the capital of the territory, providing a gathering space for community events, markets and summer performances.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Iqaluit Square
▶︎ Iqaluit, NU
 
Author
▶︎ Christopher Grosset, NUALA
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Kekerten Territorial Park

 
Description
▶︎ The reconstructed frame outlines the original Scottish whaling station at Kekerten.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Kekerten Territorial Park
▶︎Cumberland Sound, Kekerten Island, NU
 
Author
▶︎ Christopher Grosset, NUALA
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Aggutinni

 
Description
▶︎ North of the community of Clyde River is an area called Aggutinni, meaning "place of the prevailing winds" in Inuktitut. Aggutinni is a vast landscape of glaciers, tundra valleys, fiords and several of the worlds tallest sheer cliff faces. Residents and Landscape Architects have prepared a master plan to propose protection of the natural and cultural resources of this landscape.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Aggutinni
▶︎ Clyde River, NU
 
Author
▶︎ Christopher Grosset, NUALA
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Aggutinni

 
Description
▶︎ Aggutinni, located on Baffin Islands east coast, includes five fiords stretching inland from Baffin Bay to the Barnes Ice Cap. The area is a traditional harvesting area and place of special cultural significance to the Inuit residents of Clyde River. Efforts to protect Aggutinni as a proposed territorial park seek to protect cultural resources while maintaining traditional Inuit harvesting and developing tourism.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Aggutinni
▶︎ Clyde River, NU
 
Author
▶︎ Christopher Grosset, NUALA
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The Harsher the environment the Better

 
Description
▶︎ Arctic fireweed (Chamerion latifolium) is a dwarf form of a species that is found across Canada. It brightens the landscape and provides sustenance.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ The Harsher the environment the Better
▶︎ Iqaluit, NU
 
Author
▶︎ Margaret Ferguson, NWTALA
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Official Flower of Nunavut

 
Description
▶︎ Seemingly growing from rock, the pink flowers of Saxifraga oppositifolia (purple saxifrage) heralds spring in the harsh desert climate of the arctic. This is a culturally and scientifically important plant.
 
Title, Localization
▶︎ Official Flower of Nunavut
▶︎ Baffin Island, Nunavut
 
Author
▶︎ Margaret Ferguson, NWTALA

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