POSTED: OCTOBER 16, 2017
BY: AARON BARTER
Once completed in 2024, Port Lands Flood Protection will create a new mouth for the Don River, river valley, parkland and natural habitat. The new 1,000-metre river valley will run through the Port Lands, south of the existing Shipping Channel, creating a new island, which we’re calling Villiers Island.
Earlier this year, Waterfront Toronto issued a Call for New Members to join our Waterfront Design Review Panel.
POSTED: FEBRUARY 15, 2017
BY: MEGHAN HOGAN
The Waterfront Design Review Panel provides objective, professional advice to Waterfront Toronto and/or City of Toronto Planning staff about proposed public and private developments within the Designated Waterfront Area. The role of the Panel is to advocate for the highest quality outcomes for the citizens of Toronto on their waterfront. Established in 2005, the Panel has become a renowned forum for advancing excellence in design and city-building.
Waterfront Toronto's Design Review Panel is now seeking seven new members:
POSTED: FEBRUARY 7, 2017 l COMPLETE STREETS | CYCLING | DESIGN | INFRASTRUCTURE | PARKS & PUBLIC SPACES | SUSTAINABILITY
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON
By Ilana Shamoon
Waterfront Toronto has awarded the public art commission for Bayside's Aitken Place Park to the Calgary-based artist team of Caitlind Brown, Wayne Garrett, and Studio North. The artists have proposed a large-scale light projection that invites slow, contemplative interaction with visitors to the park.
In June, Waterfront Toronto announced that The Bentway was the clear winner of the run-off vote in our city-wide Project: Under Gardiner naming campaign. It’s a name that celebrates "the bents" – the column-and-beam structures that frame the spaces of what will soon become a vibrant urban trail. Today, The Bentway launches its new website at thebentway.ca.
What’s next?
On September 25, 2016, Waterfront Toronto will present a series of talks aimed at challenging urbanists, culture-makers, advocates and citizens to reimagine what it means to be a “city builder.”
Toronto, April 5, 2016 – Reclaim the Name, the naming campaign that is underway to create a new name for the public space under the Gardiner Expressway, is now entering its next phase with the announcement of the Naming Jury. The Jury consists of a diverse group of Torontonians from across the cultural, artistic, design, civic engagement and social activism fields. Their task is to sift through the hundreds of names that have been submitted, and develop a shortlist of three to five names that will then be voted on by the public in May.