TOSHORELINES PARK

Retrieving memory for the regeneration of public space

Scale: 8000 sqm Type: individual / academic Date: 2022

Before the existing Toronto waterfront was created over 150 years ago through infilling of Lake Ontario. This transformation has shaped the land with layers of infrastructure and dirt dredged from the bottom of Lake Ontario and placed on top of old, abandoned piers, ships and industrial waste south of Front Street.

My proposal for the site is a different kind of reclamation. A historic one for a place that did not exist 150 years ago. This historic reclamation will materialize in a habitable monument: a public space that narrates the urban evolution of Toronto’s waterfront by re-establishing the material qualities of past shorelines.