Sugar Beach (Toronto, Ontario)

Canada / Ontario / Toronto / Toronto, Ontario
 beach, park

An urban beach rooted in fun and whimsy, across the slip from a sugar factory Client
WATERFRONToronto Year
2007-2010 Status
in progress

Sugar Beach is the second urban beach proposed for Toronto’s downtown waterfront, and the latest addition to the amber necklace of Toronto’s lakefront beachscape. Starting from the city’s beach typology, the proposed design for Jarvis Slip playfully recomposes other signature elements of the city, with Toronto playing the role as its own design precedent. And above all, the omnipresent horizon of the lake.

A sequel in a new wave of urban beaches, this time designed with a sweet twist. Tinted by sugar spray carried on westerly breezes from the neighboring Redpath Sugar Factory, dozens of candy-coloured umbrellas are scattered across a sandy wedge of beach along the Jarvis Slip. Integrating the future Waterfront Promenade, along with a plaza for programmed and unprogrammed events, the design playfully adopts some of the most enduring elements from Toronto’s emerging landscape identity - beaches, bedrock, trees, and water, as well as the urban horizon and a trace of the city’s past industrial mood.


A office development set to start in July
Jarvis Slip Public Space Innovative Design Competition
Exhibition Launch and Public Presentation
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Waterfront Toronto has launched an innovative design competition to enhance the public space at the foot of Lower Jarvis Street. The goal of this competition is to create a signature urban public space at the water’s edge that will anchor the new East Bayfront community.

Three renowned landscape architecture firms have been selected to participate in this competition:

Janet Rosenberg & Associates

Claude Cormier architectes paysagistes inc.

West 8 + DTAH

Design submissions will be unveiled at a public presentation on January 21, 2008 at Metro Hall, main floor Rotunda. The submissions will remain on display until January 25, 2008.

Public Presentation
January 21, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Metro Hall (Rotunda)
55 John Street, Toronto

Exhibition
January 21-25, 2008
Metro Hall (Rotunda)
55 John Street, Toronto

For more information, please visit our website at www.waterfrontoronto.ca.

Please join Waterfront Toronto and the design teams at this exciting event!
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Coordinates:   43°38'35"N   79°22'3"W
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