This playful park transformed a surface parking lot into an urban beach at the water’s edge.
Sugar Beach
Before Canada’s Sugar Beach was built there was a parking lot that existed in a plain, uninviting industrial area.
Sugar Beach
We wanted to create a signature public space that people could start using and enjoying while the transformation of the area was underway.
Sugar Beach
The parking lot was replaced with mounds of smooth powdery sand that is flecked with tiny bits of quartz and resembles the sugar that is being refined next door at Redpath.
Sugar Beach
Then there were dozens of candy coloured umbrellas scattered across the sandy beach and white Muskoka chairs that invite Torontonians to relax at this new waterfront destination.
Sugar Beach
The design of Sugar Beach playfully adopts some of the most enduring elements from our waterfront’s natural landscape — beaches, granite, trees and water as well as the urban horizon and a trace of Toronto’s industrial past.
Sugar Beach
The design of Sugar Beach playfully adopts some of the most enduring elements from our waterfront’s natural landscape — beaches, granite, trees and water as well as the urban horizon and a trace of Toronto’s industrial past.
