300 Front Street
300 Front Street
Toronto (Ontario), Canada

Urban landscape for a 58-storey luxury condo tower

We collaborated on the urban landscape surrounding a new condominium tower in the monumental centre of Toronto, located at the foot of the CN tower and Rogers Centre (formerly known as the SkyDome) and in the midst of the city’s burgeoning International Film Festival district. To give the building a signature presence, we inscribed its address – 300 – directly into the design. The roadways and sidewalks of the site make up the digits, clearly visible from the high vantage points in the nearby surroundings.

Like the logo on a Fendi purse, the site-integrated icon is woven through with an intricate network of paving. A picturesquely layered crisscross of paths, luxuriant vegetation, and a sprinkling of street trees evoke the atmosphere of a park on the scale of a garden and undermine the formal order of city codes and regulations. Accessible to condominium owners and neighbourhood residents alike, the park serves as a link between private and public zones in the metropolis.

Client
Tridel / Deltera

Collaboration
Wallman Architects Inc., Rafael + Bigauskas Architects Inc.

Area
3 100 m2 (0,8 acre)

Year
2007-2013

Status
Built

Categories
Plaza / Garden
Skyscraper
Photo, Guillaume Paradis, CC+A
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Paving pattern, CC+A
Aerial view of 300 Front Street Public Garden, - Toronto, CC+A
Plan, CC+A
Detail - Public Garden - 300 Front St. Toronto, CC+A
Panoramic view of Toronto’s 300 Front St. Public Garden at street level, CC+A
View of Toronto’s 300 Front St. Public Garden at street level, CC+A
View of Toronto’s 300 Front St. Public Garden at street level, CC+A
View of Toronto’s 300 Front St. Public Garden at street level, CC+A
Photo, Guillaume Paradis, CC+A
Photo, Guillaume Paradis, CC+A
Photo, Guillaume Paradis, CC+A
Photo, Guillaume Paradis, CC+A
Photo, Guillaume Paradis, CC+A
Context plan, CC+A
Aerial rendering, Tridel
City of Toronto skyline, CC+A