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Aerial view of Toronto's Central Waterfront Area

Central Waterfront Design Competition

The Central Waterfront Promenade covers the three-kilometre area between Bathurst and Parliament streets and includes the water’s edge as well as Queens Quay. The water’s edge is envisioned as an 18-metre promenade with a wooden boardwalk, floating finger piers and a new “green foot” for Toronto – a double row of large, native trees just to the north of the water’s edge promenade. A series of bridges rising out of the wooden boardwalk and spanning the ends of the slips provide continuous public access right along the edge of the lake. The design also transforms Queens Quay into an iconic boulevard where the city kisses the lake. Traffic is shifted to the north side of the streetcar tracks, which remain in place, leaving four metres on the south side to extend the Martin Goodman Trail and to create a generous new pedestrian promenade. Two rows of large, native trees frame the trail and the promenade, effectively greening Queens Quay like the water’s edge.

Innovative Design Competition for Toronto's Central Waterfront - News Release - March 20, 2006 (pdf)

Innovative Design Competition for Toronto's Central Waterfront - Backgrounder (pdf)

Innovative Design Competition for Toronto's Central Waterfront - Jury Members (pdf)

Prequalification Document for Innovative Design Competition for Toronto's Central Waterfront and Background Information Document (pdf)

Innovative Design Competition for Toronto's Central Waterfront - Competion Brief (pdf)

Central Waterfront Innovative Design Competition Exhibition Launch and Public Forum - May 15, 2006 (pdf)

Central Waterfront Innovative Design Competition - Study Area (pdf)

Jury Report for Toronto Central Waterfront Design Competition - May 30, 2006 (pdf)

Backgrounder - Innovative Design Competition for Toronto's Central Waterfront - June 2, 2006 (pdf)

News Release - West 8 Wins Waterfront Corp. Design Competition (pdf)

Queens Quay Road Closure Notice (pdf)

Quay to the City Summary Report - October 2006 (pdf)