The Queen's Quay Terminal wears an exterior of repetitive, cream-colored concrete squares stacked eight stories high, a stark silhouette against the blue of Lake Ontario. This building began as the Terminal Warehouse in nineteen…
Harbourfront and Music Garden Walk
This lakeside stroll along Toronto's transformed industrial quays brings you to a creative public wave deck, a serene music garden, and a moving historic waterfront memorial.
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1. Queen’s Quay Terminal
2. Harbourfront Centre
The Harbourfront Centre is a ten-acre site on the edge of Lake Ontario dominated by a cluster of low-slung, industrial-style buildings linked by outdoor boardwalks. It began in nineteen seventy-two when the federal government seized the…
3. Simcoe WaveDeck
The Simcoe WaveDeck curves upward, creating a sudden, rhythmic crest in the otherwise flat wooden boardwalk along Toronto’s waterfront. This structure replaces a straight concrete path with a series of high, rolling swells meant to mimic…
4. HTO Park
Yellow umbrellas stand scattered across the sand at HTO Park like oversized garden flowers. This park sits on a former shipping slip, a wedge of land reclaimed from Lake Ontario. Landscape architects transformed this industrial edge into…
5. Toronto Music Garden
The Toronto Music Garden is marked by a sweeping, circular trail that mimics the dance steps of Johann Sebastian Bach's first cello suite. Landscape architect Tomson Highway worked with cellist Yo-Yo Ma to translate the music into a…
6. Ireland Park
Five bronze figures stand along the limestone edge of Bathurst Quay, staring toward the dark water of Lake Ontario. These sculptures represent Irish immigrants arriving in Toronto during the summer of eighteen forty-seven. They escaped a…