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Peace Garden at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall

Site Plan, Plan and Context Section – The Peace Garden slopes with stadium seati

Night view looking to the east stepped garden, reflecting pool in foreground, an

Stepped garden looking east – seating and planting areas are interwoven with sta

Concrete bridge with stainless steel screened guards leading from the raised wal

Main stairs aligning with the bridge to the raised walkways. Lighting is conceal

Interwoven stepped seating and planting at the east side of the garden looking t

Concrete ‘bridge’ crossing the planting bed that aligns with the reflecting pool

View to the northeast. The garden is open to the north for larger ceremonies add

View east from the Law Society Lane – the sloped expanse of the garden compresse

The birches screen the garden from the lane. Seating towards the law society cre

View south to the reflecting pool, flame and pavilion.

The pavilion aligns with sitting areas on the west stepped garden.

View north to the pavilion. Continuing southward, the reflected pool becomes a p

View looking southwest at the west stepped garden.

Seating areas are interwoven in planting areas.

Deciduous and coniferous plants are planted in linear masses.

The stainless steel screen provides transparency at some angles and a backdrop f

The concrete thresholds with stainless steel letters announce the entry into the

The slot between the stepped garden and walkways is bridged over, allowing for t

Fall colours and wildlife.

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2016 National Award | Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect

Peace Garden at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall

PLANT Architect Inc.

Echoing the form of two cupped hands, the New Peace Garden frames a lush and intimate public garden focused on the ‘project of peace’ with a restored Pavilion and iconography, all while sloping to cover and acoustically temper a major parking lot exhaust. It transforms a noisy back-of-house no-mans-land into a calm and richly planted destination to linger in.

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