The Queen’s Quay Terminal rises along the waterfront as a massive, eight-storey structure characterized by its solid Art Deco façade and vertical rows of metal-sash windows. Built in nineteen twenty-six and opened in nineteen twenty-seven,…
Harbourfront and Music Garden Walk
This lakeside stroll along Toronto's transformed industrial quays brings you to a creative public wave deck, a serene music garden, and a moving historic waterfront memorial.
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1. Queen’s Quay Terminal
2. Harbourfront Centre
The Harbourfront Centre is defined by the industrial remnants of a former shipping port that now house galleries, theaters, and performance stages. Spanning ten acres along the shore of Lake Ontario, the site is anchored by the Power…
3. Simcoe WaveDeck
The Simcoe WaveDeck is a public wooden structure at the water’s edge that rises in dramatic, sweeping curves as high as two point six meters above Lake Ontario. Designed by the firms West eight and DTAH, this undulating platform replaced a…
4. HTO Park
HTO Park is marked by a series of large, stationary yellow umbrellas scattered across its sandy shoreline. Opened in two thousand seven, this six-acre space transformed a former industrial brownfield into an urban beach along Lake Ontario.…
5. Toronto Music Garden
The Toronto Music Garden is defined by its six distinct landscape sections, each designed to mirror a specific dance movement from Johann Sebastian Bach’s First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello. Stretching across three acres of the…
6. Ireland Park
Ireland Park sits on the city waterfront at the foot of Bathurst Street, defined by its adjacency to the towering concrete Canada Malting silos. Its most distinct feature is a collection of five bronze statues created by the Irish sculptor…