Archive for the ‘Parks & Public Spaces’ Category

While the official opening of Canada’s Sugar Beach is not slated until August 9, Torontonians are already enjoying the park’s sandy beach, candy-striped rocks and water views.

The award winning vision to transform the Lower Don Lands and renaturalize the mouth of the Don River may soon be official and binding.

Toronto and East York Community Council has approved Sherbourne Common as the new name for East Bayfront’s signature waterfront park.  The new name, submitted by Doug Dent, was the winner of a month-and-a-half long naming contest which invited members of the public to submit their ideas for a new park name and to vote for [...]

Sherbourne Commons has been selected as the new name for East Bayfront’s signature waterfront park following a city-wide naming contest which invited members of the public to submit their ideas for a new park name and to vote for their favourites online.  The new name, which incorporates the park’s location with the idea of ‘the [...]

The Spadina WaveDeck has received a Certificate of Merit as part of the 2010 National Urban Design Awards. This marks the fifth time that the wavedeck has received a design or construction related award since opening in September 2008.

The final round of voting in the Rename Sherbourne Park Contest is now underway.  Until June 15, the public may vote for one of three, top ranked park names chosen by the more than 1,500 people who voted during the contest’s first round of voting. The name with the most number of votes will ultimately [...]

The public is one step closer to choosing a new name for Sherbourne Park – an innovative new waterfront park opening this summer.  From now until June 8, the public can review and rank their favourite park names from a shortlist culled from the more than five hundred submissions received during the first phase of [...]

More than 500 park names were submitted to the Rename Sherbourne Park contest during the three-week submissions period that ended May 14.  The contest, sponsored by Waterfront Toronto and online news website Torontoist, gives members of the public an opportunity to become part of the history of the waterfront by ultimately choosing a new name [...]

The submissions phase for the Rename Sherbourne Park Contest ends this Friday, May 14 at midnight. Nearly 500 park names have been submitted since the contest launched on April 26.
Sponsored by Waterfront Toronto and Torontoist, the Rename Sherbourne Park contest allows members of the public to submit their ideas for a new park name and [...]

The public is invited to come up with a new name for Sherbourne Park – an innovative new waterfront park opening this summer.  The “Rename Sherbourne Park” contest sponsored by Waterfront Toronto and Torontoist, encourages members of the public to submit their ideas for a new park name and ultimately choose the winning name through [...]