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A Green Space with Central Park Vibes in Downtown Vaughan

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Turns out Toronto’s Central Park is north of the city

Green space in the suburbs once meant sprawling hydro fields or quaint neighbourhood playgrounds. But as Vaughan matures into a bona fide urban centre, with buildings like the CG Tower, it has planted the seed for a park of truly epic proportions. Claude Cormier + Associés has proposed a Central Park-style green space to anchor the office towers and condos of the new Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.

The landscaping will balance expanses of sunken lawns and sweeping hills with more structured areas paved with patterned stones and shaded by trees and sculptural pavilions. A pond for toy boat races, a farmers’ market, an off-leash dog zone and a skating rink will also be on-site.

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And a win for children in the war against fun

To write about urbanism in Toronto is to live in a constant state of disappointment. It’s not that good things never happen here. It’s just that, too often, our big-ticket urban projects fail to live up to the hype. We get promised a radical new addition to the public realm—a bold initiative to reimagine civic life—and we end up with a condo complex or an outdoor mall. A starchitect gets hired to re-design our most storied museum, and he makes such a hash of things that, fifteen years later, we find ourselves paying to undo his work.

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