Canada's Candy Beach is an imaginative park that transforms a surface parking lot in a former industrial area of Toronto into a modern urban waterfront, a "miniature beach" in the city, incorporating nature into the modern city. This urban beach features fine white sand, recreation areas and sculptural installations. Named after the history of the nearby sugar mill, Sugar Beach has become an ideal place for residents and visitors to relax, play and enjoy the sun. Claude Cormier and Asochese designed the Canadian Sugar Bank to draw on the area's industrial heritage and its relationship with the neighboring Red Road Sugar Mill.

This is the second urban beach on Toronto's downtown waterfront and a new addition to Toronto's amber necklace of lakefront coastal landscapes. It is a sequel to the first beach park HtO.

The project was inspired by the nearby Redpath candy factory, where the west wind is often wrapped in a sweet candy smell. On the wedge beach, candy-colored umbrellas seem to give off the sweet smell of candy, and rocky outcrops are decorated to look like candy.

The park has three distinct components: the urban beach; Square space; The park's tree-lined promenade features a water feature in the shape of the iconic Canadian maple leaf. The 8,500-square-metre park is the first public space visitors see when departing from the centre of Toronto's Queen's Quay. The park's brightly colored pink beach umbrellas and iconic candy-striped rocks welcome visitors to the new beachfront neighborhood of East Bayfront. Sugar Beach in Canada reminds us that Toronto's waterfront is a fun destination.


There are bright pink beach umbrellas on the beach, as well as the signature striped lounge chairs.

The beach takes advantage of the site character and the special location of the surrounding sugar factory to form the final landscape. The park includes beaches, plazas and tree-lined promenades.

The surrounding factory features form a unique backdrop, and candy-colored umbrellas echo the park's "sugar" theme. The square in the park is also for holding various activities, and the surrounding vegetation is lush, which is a good place for citizens and tourists to enjoy nature in the city.

Spaces include public plazas, urban beaches and tree-lined recreational promenades. The three parks are integrated into one, and the open square becomes the ideal place for various public events.

The design gamely reassembles other elements of the city, defining Toronto as the core of the design. Candy spray from a nearby factory blows with the breeze, a series of hard stones are hung with colorful bands, and many pink parasols cover the sand. The design draws on elements commonly found in Toronto's existing landscape, such as beaches, trees, and seawater. The design integrates it into the urban fabric while showing some of the imprint of the city's industrial history.

Full of candy color parasol, full of girly breath.

Visitors can relax and play on the beach or watch the boats on the lake. The vibrant water features embedded in the granite maple leaves along the beach bring cool fun to the public. The park's plaza provides a vibrant space for public activities. A large candy-striped granite rock and three grassy mounds provide the public with unique vantage points for larger events, and the Spaces between mounds create natural performance Spaces for smaller events.

Between the square and the beach, people stroll through the park along a patch of granite pebbles with a maple leaf Mosaic pattern. Providing a shaded route to the water's edge, the promenade offers many opportunities for the public to sit and enjoy the views of the lake, beach or square along the way.

"This design is lightweight and whimsical, transforming an industrial space into a waterfront community open space, a man-made landscape that people expect." It's interesting to be a designer with a project like this."

The project has received a Regional Merit Award from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, a Toronto Urban Design Award for Excellence, a Municipal Design Project Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, an AZ Award from AZURE Magazine Canada, and most recently the 2012 ASLA Professional Award for Integrated Design.