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Revision as of 18:37, 23 October 2009

Cloud Gardens
Map
TypePublic Park
LocationToronto, Ontario
Operated byCity of Toronto

Cloud Gardens or "Bay Adelaide Gardens and the Cloud Forest Conservatory"[1] is a small park in downtown Toronto. It is on Richmond Street just east of Bay Street on half an acre (2,000 m²) of land.

Origin

The site was given to the city in the 1980s as part of a deal that allowed the Bay Adelaide Centre to be higher than official plan limits. The developers thus gave a small portion of the lot to the city and spent $5 million to build a park.

Design

The park is one of the more elaborate in Toronto. It was designed by a partnership of Baird, Sampson Neuert Architects,[2] the MBTW Group/Watchorn Architects, and two artists, Margaret Priest and Tony Sherman.[3] It won George Baird a Governor General's Architecture Award.

Description

The western part of the park includes a network of pathways and is edged by cluster of trees around a semicircular lawn. The eastern portion is more elaborate with a series of walkways climbing past a waterfall. Rising above this area is a monument to Toronto's construction workers designed by Margaret Priest and constructed by the Building Trades Union. It comprises squares that each illustrate one of the building trades. Thus one shows a network of steel rebars, another, a cluster of wiring.

The namesake feature of the Gardens is a small greenhouse set to the cool and moist conditions of certain mountain ecologies. A walkway runs from the lower-level entrance to an upper-level exit by the waterfall.

References

  1. ^ "Bay Adelaide Gardens and the Cloud Forest Conservatory". City of Toronto, Toronto Gardens and Conservatories. 2000-10-23. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  2. ^ "Barry Sampson - projects - 0.6A public park (aerial photo)". University of Toronto web site, faculty pages. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  3. ^ "Urban Design: Cloud Garden Park". Lost Streams, Toronto, Web site. Retrieved 2009-03-27.

43°39′04″N 79°22′47″W / 43.651168°N 79.379826°W / 43.651168; -79.379826