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 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 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.
September 19, 2011, Toronto, ON—Canada’s Sugar Beach and the Sherbourne Common Pavilion have each received 2011 Toronto Urban Design Awards. Canada’s Sugar Beach earned an Award of Excellence in the Large Places or Neighbourhood Designs category and the Sherbourne Common Pavilion was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Elements category.
May 9, 2011, Toronto, ON—People in wheelchairs can now easily access the sandy beach portion of Canada’s Sugar Beach.
Waterfront Toronto has added a new ramp and built a deck that is level with the sand. The hardwood ramp runs from the main pathway on the east side of the beach to a four square meter platform that features Muskoka chairs and one of the park’s iconic pink umbrellas.
While the park was built to City of Toronto accessibility standards, Waterfront Toronto added the new platform to further enhance accessibility.
April 5, 2011, Toronto, ON – The Harlem Globetrotters brought their new 4-point shot to Canada’s Sugar Beach to promote the Toronto leg of their North American tour.
Globetrotters Flight Time Lang and Wun “The Shot” Versher took 4-point shots – over water – from the charter vessel River Gambler to a basketball hoop positioned on Canada’s Sugar Beach. A crowd of 100 local school children gathered around the hoop and cheered the players as they both succeeded in making 4-point shots.
Toronto, March 17, 2011 – Canada’s Sugar Beach and the Martin Goodman Trail improvements at Marilyn Bell Park have received Regional Awards of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA).
The opening celebration will take place at the park site, located at the foot of Lower Jarvis Street south of Queens Quay Boulevard. See event invitation for further details.
August 9, 2010, Toronto, ON— Two inviting and exciting public spaces officially opened today in part of Toronto’s downtown waterfront that was until now mostly derelict industrial land that few people had visited. Canada’s Sugar Beach and the Water’s Edge Promenade (phase one) are unique new urban spaces that have transformed a lakefront parking lot and underused area into waterfront attractions.