Toronto Riverside Square | 64.6m | 20s | Streetcar | RAW Design

[JasonParis]

Agreed, I think this is some of the worst cladding anywhere in recent TO memory.

 

[bilked]

Riverside "Park" in all its glory... from BlogTO:

There's now a small park where Toronto's first baseball stadium used to be

Long before the Rogers Centre and Exhibition Stadium, there was Sunlight Park, the city's very first professional baseball stadium located in River...

www.blogto.com

 

[achender]

Starting excavation for the latest phase.

 

[Northern Light]

Not wasting much time here!

Pics from January 25, 2021:

 

[ADRM]

 

[achender]

From this evening.

 

[skycandy]

 

[Northern Light]

Photos taken February 25th, 2021:

West side of the site; excuse the angle, I had to put the camera above my head and guess to clear the fencing.

 

[Towered]

 

[ProjectEnd]

 

[Northern Light]

The pit grows ever bigger.........

Photos taken May 19, 2021:

*** on to the adjacent public space, just to the west.

Bench installation in progress:

Nice pavers and all..........but that is a lot of blank space:

 

[Patch]

Just such an... odd design.

Based on the rendering it feels like they pushed all the features to the edges to make room for... a farmer's market? Or have other uses been proposed here.

And not having the retail/cafe space on the south opening up to the square is such a lost opportunity.

Are the hanging "bases" meant to be lights? I can already see them putting up "Baseball Not Permitted" signs

 

[Northern Light]

Just such an... odd design.

Yes

Based on the rendering it feels like they pushed all the features to the edges to make room for... a farmer's market? Or have other uses been proposed here.

The render we started with was much more pleasing:

And not having the retail/cafe space on the south opening up to the square is such a lost opportunity.

Yes

Are the hanging "bases" meant to be lights?

Yes

*****

I would go so far as to call this 'bait and switch' it bares so little resemblance to what we started with as an idea.

 

[Patch]

Actually I take back "odd". It's just bad.

@Northern Light A good candidate for your Problematic Park Design thread

 

[DavidCapizzano]

pardon the pun but this baseball park is a gigantic swing and a miss.

really hoping there is some kind of programming here eventually. Would love to see some kind of market, small music performances etc because currently its barren as f