Roger du Toit Architects Collection.

The study investigated the marketing, traffic, and street landscaping opportunities for revitalization. The final plan proposed a balance between major pedestrian areas, important through traffic, and commercial development.

This project provided a new image for downtown Port Colborne and sought to increase retail activity. Emphasis was placed on the watefront "entry" to the downtown. Parking was reorganized to create a waterfront promenade and small urban park along the historic section of the Welland Canal and the sidewalks were widened along the retail strip.

This plan postulated a more compact, socially oriented organization of housing. Open space was more intimate--linear walkways and a central "village green" surrounded by institutions and shopping. Streets were social spaces flanked by porches, front entrances and house facades rather than garages. Public space was more intimate and safer due to surveillance through front windows and proches of adjoining houses.

This project demonstrated methods by which housing for Canadian representatives abroad could be manufactured, shipped, and assembled on the other side of the Atlantic. A variety of house, small office, and recreational building designs were developed. Various house types formed a series of entrance and priviate interior coutryards to take advantage of the Mediterranean climate. They also linked the units to form a neighbourhood of about 16 dwellings with common facilites in the centre.

Implemented in 1982, the first phase of Burlington's downtown streetscape program included improvements to 6 city blocks and a parking lot. Decorative sidewalk and crosswalk paving, historic street lighting, banners, benches, waste baskets, bolards and landscaping were used to create the unique street character.

The project plan established a strategy for downtown Belleville to act as a viable shopping centre; laid the groundwork to attract new development; established parking, riverfront and street landscape improvements; and set out design guidelines for new development and renovation that contributed to a cohesive design scheme for the area.

Architecture is practiced under the name Roger du Toit Architects; urban design and landscape architecture under the name of du Toit, Allsopp, Hillier. The group bagan practice in 1973, as a successor firm to John Andrews Architects, a partnership established in 1970.

Roger du Toit Architects, affiliated architects, landscape architects, and planners, have been offering interdisciplinary design services since 1975 to institutions, federal and provincial government agencies, municipalities, developers, and corporations. The group has consistently won architectural, landscape and planning design awards over the years. Roger du Toit incorporated du Toit Associates Ltd. also in 1975 to provide planning and urban design services. In 1985, the firm du Toit Associates Ltd. changed to du Toit, Allsopp, Hillier, a provider of urban design, landscape, architectural and planning services. Projects are located in many parts of Ontario as well as across Canada and in the United States.

Gooderham & Worts distillery site is a collection of 44 19th century buildings on 13 acres located at the mouth of the Don River in downtown Toronto. The distilling operation shut down as a productive operation in 1992.