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Jury Comments |
COURTHOUSE SQUARE
Court Street
Landscape Architect: Janet Rosenberg & Associates Landscape Architects
Architect: Carruthers Shaw and Partners Ltd. Architects
Artist: Susan Schelle
Owner: City of Toronto
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A well-mannered transformation of a vacant mid-block site tucked away downtown, seductively reflecting through metaphor the site's natural origins of creek and forest and early civic history associated with the adjacent courthouse.
An ambitious program has been skillfully accommodated on the small site with a strong composition that reinforces axial view corridors, integrates a variety of internal spaces and elements, as well as establishing vital connections to adjacent streets and open space.
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The excellent integration of a public art component plays a significant role in the sophisticated treatment and interpretive presentation of the site.
The handling of a handsome palette of natural stone, paving, metalwork, urbane site furnishings and a varied and exceptionally rich collection of plant material is commendable.
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| SMALL PLACE-Honourable Mention
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ALEX WILSON COMMUNITY GARDEN
550 Richmond Street West
Designer: Katharine H. Dugmore
John A. Holmes
Kent W. Ford
Owner/Developer: Alex Wilson Community Project & City of Toronto
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The solution displays a fresh, unmannered approach to the design of an urban open space in the form of a commemorative, actively-worked community garden.
It is a good use of a vacant lot, situated between two residential infill buildings, serving as a green oasis for wildlife and people and also functioning as a convenient, mid-block pedestrian connection.
A poetic composition displaying a diversified collection of native trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, flowering perennials and grasses which represent a broad cross-section of plants of the region.
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| SMALL PLACE-Honourable Mention
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SHELDON LOOKOUT
Western Beach/ Humber River, Lake Ontario
Landscape Architect: Gunta Mackars Landscape Architecture
Owner: City of Toronto & David and Silvia Sheldon
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A pleasant amenity operating on the relationship set up between elemental qualities of a dramatic lakeshore, installation of large natural stone monoliths and the vastness of water and sky viewed beyond.
The potential power of the composition is undercut by an overly complicated ground plane and an undisciplined approach to the installation.
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