Being late on waterfront plans could work to Toronto's advantage

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Being late on waterfront plans could work to Toronto's advantage

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2005 / May 30

Though Toronto's waterfront dreams are far from being realized, they're already winning accolades. Earlier this month, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the influential body that promotes neo-traditional development, handed out one of its charter awards to the East Bayfront Precinct Plan. In April, the same plan received the Boston Society of Architects' Willo van Moltke Honour Award for urban design excellence. Then last week, the West Don Lands Precinct Plan won a Toronto Architecture and Urban Design Award of Excellence. The East Bayfront scheme, prepared by Boston-based Koetter Kim & Associates, is an ambitious proposal that would transform 36 hectares south of the Gardiner Expressway between Bay St. and the Don River into a transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use community with 9,500 residential units.

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