POSTED: FEBRUARY 10, 2015 I INNOVATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN
By Heather Glicksman

The Toronto skyline as seen from Snake Island Park (Image credit: Jamie McCaffrey on Flickr)

POSTED: JANUARY 27, 2015 I PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, DESIGN
By Meghan Hogan

What is it about our waterfront that draws us in? What inspires the dreams, plans, schemes and proposals that range from the utilitarian to the awe-inspiring? (Image courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and architectsAlliance, from their 2010 design ideas proposal for the Gardiner Expressway.)

POSTED: AUGUST 27, 2014
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

Queens Quay has been rebuilt and revitalized both above and below ground.

Public art plays an important role in creating the character of a city’s places and spaces – and the cultural, social and economic benefits of public art are real. The public art master plan for Toronto’s new West Don Lands neighbourhood is ensuring that all those benefits are integrated from the start. 

POSTED: MAY 21, 2014
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

Since its completion in 2010, the Water's Edge Promenade in East Bayfront has been bustling with activity all year round.

POSTED: MARCH 6, 2014
BY: HEATHER GLICKSMAN

Recently, the Water’s Edge Promenade in East Bayfront received a National Merit Award from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA).

Toronto’s waterfront is being transformed from derelict industrial lands into dynamic new mixed-use neighbourhoods that reconnect us with our waterfront through truly inspiring parks and public spaces. But it’s no easy feat – this transformation requires a delicate balancing act that makes sure that no single way that we use the waterfront overpowers all the others.

POSTED: MARCH 4, 2014 I DESIGN, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES
BY: ANDREW HILTON

Toronto, July 23, 2009 – Waterfront Toronto, together with the Governments of Canada and Ontario and City of Toronto, officially broke ground today on Sherbourne Park, a spectacular new waterfront park that will transform a formerly industrial area into much needed public greenspace on the lake.

Located just east of Lower Sherbourne Street, this 1.5 hectare park spans more than two city blocks, from Lake Ontario in the south to Lake Shore Blvd. in the north, on both sides of Queens Quay.

Toronto, November 23, 2007 – Waterfront Toronto has selected three distinguished teams to participate in the design competition to enhance the public space at the Jarvis Slip. The teams selected to participate in the design competition are:

• Janet Rosenberg & Associates
• Claude Cormier architectes paysagistes inc.
• West 8 + DTAH

TORONTO, September 26, 2007 - Waterfront Toronto today announced that five development teams have been selected to bid on the construction of 850 units of housing in the West Don Lands, the first new neighbourhood to be developed as part of waterfront revitalization.

Waterfront Toronto short-listed the five teams through a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) that was issued in June and to which 18 developers responded. The five short-listed teams are: