HTO park on Queens Quay West
Image credit: Neil Fox
A beach where swimming is forbidden, an urban idyll with views of abandoned malt silos—HTO park is a curiously artificial place. Which is also why it’s such an amazing patch of the city. By manipÂulating the land into a hyperrealist dreamÂscape—impossibly cute hillocks, waifish willows, a sandy beach dotted with optimistic sun umbrellas—the designers have distilled Toronto’s ambivalent and bureaucrat-bedevilled relationship with the lake into a place where people want to go and linger. Possessing the unrelenting cheeriness of a lollipop farm, the park is a testament to the power of positive thinking.
—Kathryn Hayward
Toronto Life
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