The existing Parkette follows two main directions: to the Health Centre ground floor and to Saint Stephens'Church. This project holds the existing directions, but has a different shape in section. I designed three big "steps", with its own function: walking for the highest one, next to the street side; then, a step to stay, with chess tables; the last one is closed to the Health Centre and it would accommodate the Health Centre Outdoor Café. The big steps are connected by stairs and ramps. There are some little green areas, which correspond to seats on the lower step; they are also provided by steel and wooden backs. In addition to streetlights, some lights have been placed next to the ground. There is a spire bike rack, too,... so people could park their bikes next to the telephones no more!
(Competitor's text)
A cluttered design which lowers the bunker wall to bench height and uses it for that purpose and divides the park space into boxes - some with trees ‐ that double as benches. Relaxation and moving through the parkette are made difficult if these spaces are used as designed, since the park space between the tree and bench boxes is meant to be so busy. It includes a "games and playing area", a "games court" (with a basketball net), a "lounge area" a "drinking and refreshing area" and a "standing and perching - ie sitting ‐ area". Retail in the west end of KHC includes a Starbucks.
Like the idea of incorporating more active use in the site, but a bit gimmicky; scales seem off ‐ the space allotted for basketball, for example, is too small.
Functional and maintainable as well as nice and open but a draw for sleeping and skateboarding.
(Excerpt from the jury's comments)
