Waterfront plan: A magnet and, hopefully, model

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2007 / December 24

Relax, Toronto, all is not lost; the wheels of change grind no slower here than in any other city. So says Dutch landscape architect Adriaan Geuze, whose firm, West 8, is now redesigning the central waterfront in partnership with Toronto's DTAH. "Bureaucratic resistance is normal," he says, smiling reassuringly. "It's the same everywhere." Geuze should know; he's worked in cities across Europe and North America. Still, he admits he has his work cut out for him in Toronto. Geuze and his team won an international competition last year to redesign the waterfront between Bathurst and Parliament Sts. It is a huge project, including the narrowing of Queens Quay from four lanes to two, the planting of thousands of trees, the construction of a boardwalk along the water's edge and bridges across various slips.

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