Sangha featured in the Toronto Star

Sangha featured in the Toronto Star

In the Toronto Star’s article Chinese planned community welcomes a diverse population traveling through life and learning, Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown were interviewed about the origins, purposes, and experiential comforts of their Sangha community design.

When asked about Sangha’s origins, Calvin said “My partner, Zack, and I believe the most important thing about any design is to create a holistic environment for whomever is there. We did an urban mass plan for Singapore and later one for Berlin — both with a private and public component to them. That’s when we realized the private sector and the government have to blend their agenda to make a proper society.

Being a Chinese-American, I’ve been observing China for a long time. It’s evolved from a very backward place to a superior country both politically and economically. We started investigating how to create a sustainable, vibrant, culturally-rich, socially-healthy community in the rapidly-growing, rapidly-urbanizing, economically-turbulent, politically-complex culture that is China.”