Cloud Gardens or "Bay Adelaide Park" and "Cloud Gardens Conservatory"[1] is a small park in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It extends from the south side Richmond Street to the north side of Temperance Street, between Yonge Street and Bay Street, on Шаблон:Convert of land. The park is currently closed for construction and repairs.
The site was given to the city in the 1980s as part of a deal that allowed the Bay Adelaide Centre to be higher than official plan limits.Шаблон:Fact The developers thus gave a small portion of the lot to the city and spent $5 million to build a park.Шаблон:Fact
Landscape design and art
Файл:Cloud gardens.jpgThe conservatory (greenhouse) is in the upper left, the waterfall to its right and the outdoor artwork in the upper rightФайл:Cloud Gardens 2.jpgInterior of the glasshouse
Designed by Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, the MBTW Group/Watchorn Architects, and two artists—Margaret Priest and Tony Scherman[2]—the park features elaborate landscape design. The western part of the park includes a network of pathways and is edged by cluster of trees around a semicircular lawn. The eastern portion is marked by series of walkways climbing past a waterfall. Rising above this area is a monument to Toronto's construction workers designed by Margaret Priest and constructed by the Building Trades Union.Шаблон:Fact It comprises squares that each illustrate one of the building trades.Шаблон:Fact Thus one shows a network of steel rebars, another, a cluster of wiring.Шаблон:Fact
The namesake feature of the Gardens is a small greenhouse set to the cool and moist conditions of a cloud rainforest.[3] A walkway runs from the lower-level entrance to an upper-level exit by the waterfall. Cloud Gardens won Baird Sampson Architects a Governor General's Architecture Award.[3]
Construction
The park was closed in November 2018 for construction to replace the waterproofing under the park, and is estimated to reopen in 2024 after the construction of a new building west of the park is complete.[4]
