More than 200 people attended Saturday’s public forum on Lots 1 & 9, where four concepts for a Paralympic arena and surrounding buildings were presented.
"Lots 1 and 9 are close to the centre of the whole valley," said Eldon Beck, who began his involvement with the design of Whistler Village in 1978. "If this becomes the heart or the centre of Whistler, that would be wonderful."
The four concepts – dubbed The Solar Rink, The Sunny Island, The Mountain Tent and The Frozen River – were developed by a team that includes Beck, Mark Lakeman, Bruce Hemstock
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municipal staff and a panel of community members, based on public feedback from a January workshop.
"Intangibles are things you can’t measure," Beck told the workshop Saturday. "Good planning starts with intangibles, and I think the list of words and values that came out of the January workshop – ‘authentic,’ ‘magical,’ ‘animated’ – are intangibles."