Located in Toronto’s Port Lands Precinct, Tommy Thompson Park is a unique urban wilderness minutes from downtown, located on a manmade peninsula known as the Leslie Street Spit. The Tommy Thompson Park Entrance Pavilion establishes a new front door to the park that is welcoming, engaging, and ecologically sensitive to its context. Serving as a centre for discovery and education, the entrance pavilion is designed as a simple, yet elegant, form split in two halves, covered by an expansive cantilevered roof. One half of the structure houses accessible public washrooms, while the other contains administrative spaces that support on-site educational programming.

Jury Comments

“This modest building holds its presence where it could otherwise be easy for it to get lost in a designed but visually ‘wild’ landscape. It’s a sustainable project looking beyond embodied energy and building envelope issues to considering its relationship to the landscape.”

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Publish Date : 2022/Jul/13