Staging Grounds, a temporary installation, reflects the Bentway’s characteristic mix of art and urbanism
Plants are drinking the water from the Gardiner Expressway. On a rainy fall day in downtown Toronto, pipes are channelling runoff water from the elevated highway down into steel planters painted teal and filled with indigenous shrubs. And the plants are, mostly, thriving., a temporary installation at the Bentway – the public space and arts organization located underneath the Gardiner.
Urban designer Ken Greenberg and the landscape architects PUBLIC WORK made something out of nothing, and a new Bentway organization has run events and programs. Almost 200,000 people have visited so far this year.Here, “landscape increases the softness of the Gardiner, its resiliency, its ability to sustain flooding,” explained Ilana Altman, co-executive director of the Bentway Conservancy. “And it’s an acoustic buffer to the neighbouring roads. Landscape is infrastructure.
On Oct. 11, the city committed approximately $800,000 to the Bentway in support of design and public engagement for an area including the Staging Grounds site. , completed this year, is a set of strategies that can apply to a 6.5-kilometre stretch of the expressway, from Dufferin Street to the Don Valley Parkway.
Staging Grounds responds to the dynamic conditions of the site and educates visitors about urban ecology and stormwater management.The Gardiner zone could feel like “a gateway to the lakefront,” Altman suggests, rather than a barrier. Existing sites such as Harbourfront and the new Love Park all become easier to reach and easier to see as a unified whole. The neighbourhoods around them – which are home to tens of thousands of residents – take on a new character.
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