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Tod Williams Billie Tsien / Martinez Lapena - Torres

Toronto Central Waterfront Design Competition / Concours de design pour le front de mer central de Toronto

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Aerial view of Simcoe Slip

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Promenade at water edge

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View down Jarvis street

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View down Queens Quay boulevard

Site Plan

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Evolution of the City

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Jarvis Slip

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Portland Slip

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Spadina Slip

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Yonge Slip

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Queen Quay Boulevard proposal

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Through Portland slip

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Queen Quay boulevard

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Implantation of the red ribbon

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Implantation of the green ribbon

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Implantation of the yellow square

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Implantation of the floating island

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Solar powered pannel

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Sweeny Sterling Finlayson & Co Architect Inc.
	www.sweenyandco.com/

	ERA Architects Inc
	eraarch.ca/

	Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects \| Partners
	www.twbta.com/

	martinez Lapena - Torres Arquitectos
	www.jamlet.net/

	Cohos Evamy


	The Planning Partnership
	planpart.ca/

	Earth Tech Geotechnical Construction Services
	www.earthtech.com/

	Shoreplan Engineering,
	www.shoreplan.com/

	Sustainable Edge Ltd
	www.s-edge.com/

	Tarandus Associates Limited
	www.tarandus.ca/

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Description

Toronto: a gathering place

The waterfront of Toronto has been the site of continuous but inconsistent development form the time it was first inhabited. The first peoples named the site Toronto wich signified the coming together of the rivers and tributaries as they emptied into lake Ontario. The original shoreline was rich with trees and Toronto and its outlying islands was a place for gathering and healing amoung the first peoples. As settlements increased the original shoreline was added to and the waterfront edge moved outward. The city did not grow south with the shoreline however and soon Toronto's urban core became disconnected from the waterfront. At the present time the edge of Toronto is serrated by the slips and feels discontinuous and confusing.

We believe that the waterfront must be physically reintegrated into urban life. We also believe that the waterfront must return to a more natural state.

Our proposal strikes a balance between these opposing conditions in four ways :

Red ribbons : stitching together the existing waterfront

Green ribbon : queen quays as a green spine

Yellow squares : the heads of slips as urban plazas on the water

Floating island : a new vision for Toronto's green edge

(From competitor's text)

Jury Report

The jury applauded the Tod Williams Billie Tsien / Martinez Lapena - Torres Arquitectos' team's urban vision of Queens Quay Boulevard with repeated transit nodes at the head of slips that contain transit hubs, newspaper stands, public washrooms, bike rentals etc. This team's proposal for grouping these urban amenities under large urban canopies that can also harvest solar energy addressed sustainability in an innovative and creative manner.

The jury felt that the new floating island proposed by this scheme would interfere with many current navigation routes and would visually separate the city from the water's edge. This design team's proposal for a new land mass would place a new layer of building and a new naturalized island between the citizens of Toronto and the Toronto Harbour and the Toronto Islands which the jury felt would detract from the waterfront experience.

The jury appreciated the way this scheme conceived of Queens Quay Boulevard as a green spine heavily planted with trees and benefiting from wider pedestrian and bicycle areas. This design proposal reinforced the current water's edge promenade and did not reflect on alternative ways to create continuity along this edge.

(From jury report)

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