October 8, 2012, Toronto, ON—Three waterfront projects have been awarded 2012 Canadian Urban Institute Brownie awards.

September 5, 2012, Toronto, ON—Classes are now underway at the new George Brown College waterfront campus in East Bayfront. Located on Dockside Drive, with stunning views of Lake Ontario and Sherbourne Common, the college’s Centre for Health Sciences features open and inviting learning areas and state-of-the-art learning labs.

August 30, 2012, Toronto, ON— Canada’s Sugar Beach, a popular park on Toronto`s waterfront, has been recognized with another prestigious design award.

The urban beach, located in the new East Bayfront community, has received a 2012 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Honor Award in the General Design category. The award is the sixth major design accolade that the park has won since opening in July 2010.

July 8, 2012, Toronto, ON—Canada’s Sugar Beach and Sherbourne Common, signature parks in Waterfront Toronto’s new East Bayfront neighbourhood, have been awarded 2012 National Urban Design Awards. Canada’s Sugar Beach was honoured in the Civic Design Projects category and Sherbourne Common received the ‘Sustainable Award’ in the same category.

June 25, 2012, Toronto, ON—This year’s Redpath Waterfront Festival, presented by the Waterfront BIA, brought over 400,000 people to the waterfront to experience on-land and on-water programming including live music, art, culture and cuisines. Festival events occurred over a four-day period at various waterfront locations, including Canada’s Sugar Beach in East Bayfront.

June 19, 2012, Toronto, ON—This year’s Redpath Waterfront Festival is bringing music, art, culture and cuisine to a variety of waterfront locations including Canada’s Sugar Beach. Headlining the event is ‘Saltscapes’ a celebration of east coast culture at HTO Park East.  At Harbour Quay, the area is being transported into an interactive old port settlement called ‘The Wharf at York’ with sail makers, weavers, musicians and more.

June 10, 2012, Toronto, ON—Canada’s Sugar Beach has won the People’s Choice Award for best landscape architecture in the 2012 AZ Awards. The whimsical urban beach on Toronto’s waterfront earned more votes than Asia’s biggest botanical garden Shanghai Chenshan in China.

May 24, 2012, Toronto, ON—This weekend, park goers will be able to splash through the water jets at Canada’s Sugar Beach giving  people a fun way to cool off as they explore the waterfront in East Bayfront.  Water is also flowing in Sherbourne Common where the splash pad opened last week just in time for the long May weekend. The park’s 240-metre long water channel  and its three dramatic art sculptures are also in full swing.

May 6, 2012, Toronto, ON— Canada’s Sugar Beach has been selected as a finalist in the Landscape Architecture category of Azure Magazine’s 2012 AZ Awards. The whimsical urban park, opened to the public in the summer of 2010, is one of 60 finalists out of over 620 entries from 30 countries around the world.

AZ Awards are issued to designers and architects that have demonstrated exceptional creativity in achieving best concept and product designs.

January 8, 2012, Toronto, ON – Waterfront Toronto’s West Don Lands stormwater treatment facility has been recognized with a 2011 Award of Excellence by Canadian Architect magazine.

The annual awards recognize architectural design excellence and are given to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage. Canadian Architect jurors consider response to program, site, geographical and social context, and evaluate physical organization, structure, materials and environmental features when assessing submitted projects.