The project intends to emphasize the prominent location of the Brunswick‐College Parkette, creating a meeting place for all the community. The idea of the project is a small podium surrounded by small benches (cube light) to create an attractive place for day and night. The podium wants to connect visually the park with the other buildings (station, church, etc.). The benches and lighting installations transform the park in a pleasant and safe place. The "piazza" is organized with gradual terraces that promote the connection between the square, the road and the Kensington Health Centre (its ground floor will be a large bar). Evergreen vegetation has been chosen as the most suitable and also easy to maintain vegetation. Finally the ventilation grates have been transformed into a sort of modern sculpture, thus being a great attraction for the park.
(Competitor's text)
An elaborate, almost fantastical design that will be difficult and costly to build. Practically, with four tightly manicured shrubs at each corner, it is devoid of natural shade, it lacks benches for sitting and it is replete with hiding places. A wonderful, surreal stage set but a design that is probably not suited to the rebuilding of a parkette in this location.
Over constructed; thick concrete walls, wall is distracting - making a space is more important than naming the park with a sign.
Like the paving but design very busy with many hiding spots and trip hazards.
(Excerpt from the jury's comments)
