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Title	Bay Adelaide Park
Creator.Entities	Milus Bollenberghe Topps Watchom Baird/Sampson Associates, Architects
Notes	Built 1993. Project Description: Set in the heart of Toronto's financial district this small public park is conceived as an urban glade, and intimate meadow surrounded by a shady wood. On one side of the glade masonry terraces evoke a city overtaken by nature and on the other a magnificent waterfall, terraces, belvedere and commemorative artwork. Above the terraces an artist-designed steel grid contains commemorative panels displaying the works of varied construction trades. The energy of water, cascading into the park animates the place with its play of light and sound. A dense canopy of mature tree forms the wood which surrounds the glade. Beneath the tree canopy, extensive under planting is contained within raised planters, the edges of which are designed for seating. Above the parking ramp a conservatory/winter garden was constructed representing a mountain cloud forest environment. Margaret Priest created a commemorative panel artwork called The Monument to Construction Workers, 1993, mixed media, attached to the side of a brick wall. The wall rises from a switch back of ramps and sidewalks incorporating various plantings and a monumental waterfall feature to one side. The artwork is a grid of 25 panels which forms a highly dramatic patchwork of symbols which celebrate the work of artisans and construction workers who made the city. Each of the panels was constructed by a relevant local trade union. The panels range from aggregates of bronze pipe, granite, brickwork, etched glass etc. The artist describes her work as a view of the city inside out and as monument to the people who built it. Sponsor/Developer: City of Toronto. Project Location: One block West of Yonge St.. between Richmond & Temperance, Toronto, Canada
Description	Plaza with water feature
Subject.Entities	Milus Bollenberghe Topps Watchom Baird/Sampson Associates, Architects
Subject	Parks Landscape architecture Plazas Water in landscape architecture
Location	Ontario -- Toronto
Title.Series	New Directions in Landscape Architecture: Part III
Collection Title	Landscape Architecture
Publisher.Location	Seattle, WA
Publisher	Art on FIle
Date.Published	2000
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/archt_copyright.html
Collection information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193
Full resolution	Volume1\LAIII-01-08-04.jpg http://0-contentdm.unl.edu.library.unl.edu/fullres/Landscape_architecture/Volume1\LAIII-01-08-04.jpg

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