Parks 

 

NEW Love Park

An international design competition was held and the “Love Park” proposal by Claude Cormier + Associés, Landscape Architects, was selected as the winning submission.  The key features of the new open public space will meet the needs of area residents, local office workers and the thousands of tourists who visit the City’s central waterfront each year:

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• A large, shallow, heart-shaped pond will lie at the parks centre and both existing and newly planted trees will provide a green canopy to help screen out the surrounding buildings and bustling city streets.

• A gently swirling pathway network will provide opportunities for pedestrians to move through the park quickly or stroll and enjoy the respite from the streets.

• Seating areas and a terrace will be present for casual lunches by employees of the neighbouring offices, for meet-ups, people watching or just quiet contemplation.

• A small dog-relief area is proposed in the north section of the park.

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Harbour Square Park Lands

• Located next to the Toronto Ferry Docks, Harbour Square Park offers downtown folks a spot to sit and watch the ferries travel back and forth to the island. This park is the perfect spot to sit and wait for your friends before catching the ferry to the island. It's also a great spot for a picnic lunch in the middle of a long work day.

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HTO Park

• Located in Toronto's Inner Harbour, this unique park includes grassy hills, a long sand beach extending along the water's edge, stationary yellow shade umbrellas and Muskoka chairs. Stylized as HTO, the name is word play between the chemical element of water, H2O, and the common abbreviation for Toronto, TO.

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Simcoe WaveDeck 

• Each wavedeck is unique and designed to resemble to the contours of Lake Ontario's shoreline and reclaim parts of the shoreline along water's edge south of Queens Quay.