Courtesy Claude Cormier +Associés
Sugar Beach by Claude Cormier + Associés, already the winner of a Regional Honour Award from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and an Award of Excellence from the Toronto Urban Design Awards, just got another recognition, an AZ Award from Canada’s AZURE magazine. The urban beach occupies a corner of Toronto’s lakefront with cotton candy-colored umbrellas and a splash pad shaped like the Canadian flag’s maple leaf.
Really? Architected beaches? And what a view, beautiful barge!
I’ve been here, it’s a lovely spot. While a barge might not seem like a great view, it’s really fun watching the sugar be unloaded in to the adjacent processing plant (thus the name, Sugar Beach).
Plus, the site uses a suspended pavement system called the Silva Cell to provide the trees with over 800 ft3 of soil per tree. These trees will look amazing in the coming decades. Sugar Beach will be a place people from Toronto really enjoy.
I really loved sitting at Sugar Beach and watching the ship unload it sugar!!! Fantastic spectacle!