Toronto St Lawrence Market North | 25.3m | 5s | City of Toronto | Rogers Stirk Harbour

[AlvinofDiaspar]

As much as I like having a new building there, the site looks like an almost perfect site for a hard-paved plaza - even better if they can rotate St. Lawrence Hall by 180 degrees.

AoD

 

[A Torontonian Now]

As much as I like having a new building there, the site looks like an almost perfect site for a hard-paved plaza - even better if they can rotate St. Lawrence Hall by 180 degrees.

AoD

I agree. I almost wish they were building the permanent building where the temporary farmers' market structure has been erected, and kept this plot as the open public space.

 

[Tuscani01]

As much as I like having a new building there, the site looks like an almost perfect site for a hard-paved plaza - even better if they can rotate St. Lawrence Hall by 180 degrees.

AoD

Agreed. The Square behind Kingston City Hall comes to mind. They have a nice market in the square too.

Source: www.VisitKingston.ca

 

[interchange42]

Yup, the square at Kingston City Hall is pretty great. The suggestion does make me think that is probably would have been better to make this space a square, to build a new indoor market extension to the south (will it really help that much to extend Crombie Park west of Jarvis?), and to find another place to put the courts.

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[Skeezix]

[...] even better if they can rotate St. Lawrence Hall by 180 degrees.

AoD

We should put St. Lawrence Hall on a lazy susan. Have it face the new plaza on market days, swing it around to face King Street at other times.

 

[maestro]

Damn. Lousy heritage incorporations truly is our past time.

 

[Edward Skira]

Only a little bit left.

 

[AlbertC]

I'm feeling the square idea as well. Brings back good memories of Groningen.

 

[tripwire]

What happens to these squares (example Kingston) in the winter? Do the markets still continue out in the freezing cold?, or is the square used for something else?

 

[DSC]

What happens to these squares (example Kingston) in the winter? Do the markets still continue out in the freezing cold?, or is the square used for something else?

At least about a decade ago, when I used to visit Kingston often, the square was a car park 99% of the time and the Market took over on Market Day. In winter there was little or no Market activity so it was almost 100% car park.

 

[innsertnamehere]

They rebuilt the square a few years ago, it functions as a square year now I believe.

 

[David_Brown]

I'm not sure if they do this every year, but they have set up an ice rink on the square in the past.

 

[A Torontonian Now]

They do it every year. At least they did when I lived there to go to Queen's in 2008-2011. There actually is cooling equipment built into the square so it can stay open even through a warm winter.

 

[Edward Skira]

Yesterday and the day before. Most likely all gone now.

 

[Johnny Au]

The mural lives on...

as a PokéStop!