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Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and Harbour Square Park / Gare maritime Jack Layton et parc Harbour Square

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Conceptual Longitudinal East-West Section for Ferry Terminal

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Panoramic Views Across the Inner Harbour

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Step 1 - Relocate Passenger Ferries

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Step 2 -Build Aquatic Habitat

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Fluid Connections Reinforce the Park’s Role as a Unifying Connective Tissue for the Waterfront

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A Fully Accessible Pathsystem Creating a Walk Through the Park

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East - West transit on Queens Quay

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Magnets to Attract Visitors to Come and Stay in the Park

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Service Harbour Landing

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Textures and Materials - Fritted Glass

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Textures and Materials - Green Roof 'Wild Meadow'

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Textures and Materials - Green Roof Path Granite Pavers

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Textures and Materials - Expanded Metal Mesh

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A Park For Everyday

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Richard Serra - Kroller Muller Otterlo - The Netherlands

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Music in the Park - Music Garden Toronto

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Cinema at the lake - Toronto

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The Jack Layton Memorial

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Flower Beds With Botanical Biodiversity

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Reinterpretation of Old Sheds

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Torontos Frozen Waterfront

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Greenberg Consultants, Inc.
	www.greenbergconsultants.com

	KPMB - Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
	kpmb.com

	West 8 Urban design & landscape architecture b.v.
	www.west8.nl


Distinction	Winner
Doc. level	75%

Description

Since 1833 ferries have plied the waters of Toronto harbour to the islands packed with Torontonians and visitors seeking refreshment and relief from the pressures of city life - from daytrippers to those seeking a unique place to live. Over time this critical point of embarkation has been squeezed and crammed into a corner even as its importance has grown for a dense and vibrant metropolitan region.

'Harbour Landing' occupies a highly strategic yet currently almost invisible site at the foot of Yonge and Bay Streets. In addition to ennobling the experience of arrival from and departure to the ferries, providing for continuity along the water's edge and solving significant functional challenges, there is also an opportunity here to create something special in the city that is more than the sum of its parts - a "jewel" with a human face.

The experience starts from the moment you cross the threshold at Queens Quay and enter a welcoming 'portal' to the Toronto Islands. By fusing the revamped Ferry Terminal and Harbour Square Park into one special new place on the harbour, Harbour Landing speaks to what it means to be inviting and public in a rapidly evolving, highly diverse, open society that is expanding and celebrating its common ground.

It will re-appropriate 7 acres of precious waterfront territory that is currently underused with a confusing interface with the adjoining private development. The Landing will be an integral part of a continuous network of renewed public space that envelops the site, clarifying relationships to flow seamlessly from York Slip to Yonge slip with a variety of experiences and accommodations. The slip at the foot of Yonge Street will have a new wavedeck, and we imagine it functioning as the city's ceremonial slip on the central waterfront. A movable bridge connects the east-west Water's Edge Promenade, and can be floated to the side of the slip when visiting ships are in dock. Pedestrians also have the choice of walking around this slip. The market building on the east side can also be used for formal ceremonies and informal public events.

Harbour Landing defies simple categorization - a ferry terminal, an urban park for active water-based activities, a retreat and an oasis for office workers and residents, the urban getaway for people living along the waterfront, in the city and an introduction to the waterfront for visitors to Toronto.

Circulation to and through the Harbour Landing has to accommodate two major flows of varying intensity - north/ south to the ferry terminal and the east/west Water`s Edge Promenade. The imperative of accommodating the crossing of these movements has led to an integrated solution which allows for overlapping movements to share the space.

Following the Water's Edge east-west Promenade can be either at-grade by crossing the path to the terminal through an enlarged 'piazza' at the crossroads or by traversing the roof of the terminal itself to bridge the passenger flow to the terminal. The terminal's green roof is universally accessible via gently sloping ramps. This 'gained park space' provides an irresistible
public belvedere from which to survey the shoreline, the islands,and the lively ballet of boats in the harbour. The organic form of the park with rolling hillocks, whose gently sloping topography elevated from street level, presents visitors with dramatic harbour views and a panoramic backdrop featuring the Toronto Islands. This design approach is echoed in the Ferry Terminal whose undulating rooftop extends the park experience.

In its broader city context Harbour Landing will reflect both continuity and specialness at this critical junction, amplifying and connecting the transformation of Queens Quay, new wave decks at the Yonge and York slip heads and achieving the continuity of the Water's Edge Promenade; but also creating a new central feature, a "landing" place where the city meets the lake. It works in 360 degrees, addressing both the landside and waterside, providing a new and potent image for the waterfront - iconic, not just as an object, but celebrating the life it supports, populated by the comings and goings of large numbers of people in the Central Waterfront.

Nestled amongst public and cultural landmarks, together with its close proximity to a key public transport portal, suggests its poten-tial to be one of the most recognizable and prestigious public green spaces along the waterfront.

To make it more coherent and inviting as a park experience, a series of linked places - the expanded Water's Edge Promenade, the roof-top promontory, the 'piazza' and the park hillocks greatly expand the range of the park for a multiplicity of users. Multifunctional in purpose, its generous shaded pathways provide ample places to sit and take in the scene, and opportunity for informal gatherings and performance spaces.To the west there is a water park for beginner canoers and kayakers which converts into a skating rink in the winter, and a children's playground is located between the undulating landscape and Harbour Square condominiums. Striking flower beds evoke grand planting schemes reminiscent of traditional parks, adding to a rich ecology of plant materials that, together with wild flowers on the green roof of the Terminal, create an attractive habitat for migrating birds.

(From competition documentation)

Jury Report

The Jury was impressed by the design balance achieved between a new heavily landscaped Civic Park, an elegant, iconic Ferry Terminal whose naturalistic form echoes the landscape topography and an overarching plan which makes strong connections to the emerging public realm of the waterfront.

The park design transforms Harbour Square with dramatic form and topography. Heavily planted, it forms a green counterpoint to the tall surrounding concrete towers and urban context. We felt the park benefitted from its simplicity, from its scale and reach, encompassing the entire 7 acre site, from its avoidance of over programming and its ability to support large numbers of visitors informal gatherings, picnics and play. The park topography forms a valley directing access and views to the southwest to the water, drawing park visitors to the western precinct of the park, its water basin and the gazebo café overlooking the harbour. The landscape form and planting is used to frame views of the Harbour and the Islands. The elevated hills provide panoramic vantage points. The powerful shaping of green spaces of varying sizes and the simplicity of its organization create a civic destination of repose in a dense urban context and will become, we believe, a wonderful green living room on the waterfront.

The park design is multi functional, accessible, is thoughtful about both winter and summer uses and retains The Jack Layton Memorial at the prominent central crossroads of the Park.

The architecture of the Ferry Terminal creates an open, sheltered place for gathering, protected from sun and rain. The ticketed area enjoys broad views of the harbour and the Ferries and is enclosed with a beautiful roof exposed wood with structure, undulating in height. The Jury notes that its architectural character of the Terminal is heavily dependent on the exposed wood and slender column structure. It is essential these elements be retained as the design is developed. The form of the roof is clearly shaped in response to the topography of the park and is accessible again providing panoramic views and places for natural enjoyment. Planted, accessible to pedestrians and green, it extends the natural habitat and ecology of the park. The form of the Terminal achieves a simple line, elegance, beauty, particularly when seen from the water.

The organization of ticketing, entry and exit control and the ticket holding area was seen as considered and realistic. The Jury felt this was perhaps the one competition entry that most directly addressed the functional needs of Ferry Terminal operations, large crowds in the summer and smaller numbers in off-season. The size of the Terminal nevertheless must be studied further. Lozenge pavilions under the roof provide support services and enclosed warming areas for cold weather were seen as appropriate well planned and situated if perhaps undersized.

Some aspects of the Terminal were questioned. The Lozenge shaped pools of water contributing to enclosing the ticketed zone and providing views to aquatic habitat were seen as possibly too complicated. Some of the swooping roof form creates low, dark areas, which may be undesirable. The design must ensure adequate natural light to all areas under the canopy.

The operative to the Terminal upon arrival from the north is broad and welcoming, thought should be given to enhancing its visibility within the landscape.

The operations planning for the handling of cargo and deliveries to the Island, the services for the Island residents, Island School and Island Park activities is straightforward and thoughtful.

A clear, robust strategy for sustainable design and operations was presented as well as a convincing Phasing and Implementation Plan.

While the design keeps the park area free of vehicular parking and roadways in general the tunnel entrance at the park entry at Bay Street requires further study.

(From jury report)

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