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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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The Bentway’s playful installation of 50 trees in shopping carts shines a light on climate resilience and green equity

In a city grappling with rising temperatures, accelerated development and increasing inequity in green space accessibility, Moving Forest arrives not as a solution, but as an invitation to rethink our relationship with nature. Designed by NL Architects as a part of The Bentway’s Sun/Shade exhibition, this outlandish yet purposeful installation transforms a fleet of 50 shopping carts into mobile vessels for native trees—red maples, silver maples, sugar maples and autumn blaze—that roll through some of Toronto’s most sun-scorched plazas, creating impromptu oases of shade and community.

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