Time to chart a new course for the West Donlands

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2003 / December 19

Among the city districts targeted by Toronto's waterfront regeneration people for a multibillion-dollar overhaul, the site between the Don River and Parliament Street, known to the planners as the West Donlands, is especially hot with the voltage of urban memory. Just over its western border stood the first permanent home of the Ontario legislature, fountainhead of laws and liberties. A splendid public structure -- a court building, perhaps, or a jail or legal archive --should mark the spot with an exclamation point.

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