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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Sugar Beach / By Claude Cormier + Associés

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Claude Cormier + Associés
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Sugar Beach is a whimsical park that transformed a surface parking lot in a former industrial area into Toronto’s second urban beach at the water’s edge.

Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Located at the foot of Lower Jarvis Street adjacent to the Redpath Sugar Factory, the 8500 square metre park is the first public space visitors see as they travel along Queens Quay from the central waterfront. The park’s brightly coloured pink beach umbrellas and iconic candy-striped bedrock welcome visitors to the new waterfront neighbourhood of East Bayfront.
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
The design for Sugar Beach draws upon the industrial heritage of the area and its relationship to the neighbouring Redpath Sugar factory. The park features three distinct components - an urban beach, a plaza space, and a tree-lined promenade running diagonally through the park. The Sugar factory creates a surreal industrial backdrop, where gantry cranes offload mountains of sandy raw sugar from giant tankers moored in the slip.
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
With the fragrance of sugar in the air, the park’s conceptual reference is experienced in both sight and smell. Sugar as concept was used to establish a language for many of the elements throughout the park, from the red and white bedrock candy stripes on the park’s two outcroppings, the soft confection-like pink of the umbrellas, and even the candy cane pattern on the stainless steel ventilation pipes to the fountain mechanical vault concealed under the promenade.
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Sugar Beach reminds us that Toronto’s waterfront is a playful destination. The beach allows visitors to while away the afternoon as they read, play in the sand or watch boats on the lake. A dynamic water feature embedded into a granite maple leaf beside the beach makes cooling off fun for adults and children. This interactive fountain transitions into a spectacle of illuminated choreography at night.
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
The park’s plaza offers a dynamic space for public events. One of the park’s granite rock outcropping and three grass mounds give the public an amphitheatre for outdoor concerts on the stage of the adjacent entertainment studio , as well as unique vantage points in the spaces between the mounds for smaller events.
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Between the plaza and the beach, people stroll through the park along a promenade that features granite cobblestones in a maple leaf mosaic pattern. Lined with maple trees, the promenade offers a shaded route to the water’s edge providing the public with many opportunities along the way to sit and enjoy views to the lake, beach or plaza. Situated under the promenade is a generous system of silva cells that provide over 30m3 of soil for each tree. This, along with the large soil volumes in the berms and under the sand, will ensure that the maples, weeping willows, and white pines at Sugar Beach will be able to grow to their full potential.
Description from the Architects:
Photo © Courtesy of John Ferri (johnferri.com)
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
Photo © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés
location plan--drawing © Courtesy of Claude Cormier + Associés
landscape plan--drawing © Courtesy of Claude Cormier + Associés
section--drawing © Courtesy of Claude Cormier + Associés
bedrock plan--drawing © Courtesy of Claude Cormier + Associés
bedrock section--drawing © Courtesy of Claude Cormier + Associés

Video: Sugar Beach / By Claude Cormier + Associés


Video: Sugar Beach is the newest addition to the publicly accessible shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto.

Project Data
Project name: Sugar Beach
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Program: Transformation of parking lot into an urban beach
Surface area: 8,500 m2
Construction start: September 2009
Completion: June 2010
Budget: 14.3 million $ 
Main Materials: Fiberglass Umbrellas, Granite bedrock with thermoplastic stripes

The people
Client: Waterfront Toronto
Landscape Architects: Claude Cormier + Associés
Landscape architect of record: The Planning Partnership 
Industrial Designer: Andrew Jones 
Lighting: Éclairage Public 
Structural Engineers: Halsall
Photographs: © Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto, Claude Cormier + Associés


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