Dr. Sirous Ghanbarzadeh

Biography

Sirous Ghanbarzadeh is an Urban Designer with a background in architecture, having played a key role in developing complex master plans for campuses, waterfronts, and downtowns in new communities across North America, the UK, and Asia. He has been instrumental in master planning projects in British Columbia and has been involved in planning for the future of the Huu-ay-aht Nations and Surrey’s new City Centre. He has acted as the Lead Urban Designer in an extensive master planning exercise for the Jericho lands in Vancouver’s West Point Grey neighbourhood, a 90-acre site located on unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (MST) Nations. His campus planning work includes the University of Ottawa Campus Master Plan and Precinct Plans, for which he has won numerous awards for excellence, including for Simon Fraser's Campus Plan, Brock University Student Housing, and Cardiff University's Urban Design Framework Plan in Wales. Additionally, Sirous is the lead designer for the Niagara Complete Streets regional plan and the Scott Street Community Design Plan, guiding infill development and public realm improvements at the Tunney’s Pasture LRT station in Ottawa. He is actively engaged in a range of academic, teaching, and mentorship activities, serving as a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto and as a guest speaker and review critic at TMU and UBC.

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