Cloud Gardens
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 Location of the park in Toronto
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| Type | Public Park |
| Location | 14 Temperance Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°39′04″N 79°22′47″W / 43.651168°N 79.379826°WCoordinates: 43°39′04″N 79°22′47″W / 43.651168°N 79.379826°W |
| Area | 0.6 acres (2,400 m2) |
| Operated by | Toronto Parks |
| Website | Cloud Gardens Conservatory |
Cloud Gardens or "Bay Adelaide Park" and "Cloud Gardens Conservatory" is a small park in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It extends from the south side Richmond Street to the north side of Temperance Street, between Yonge Street and Bay Street, on 0.6 acres (2,400 m2) of land.
The site was given to the city in the 1980s as part of a deal that allowed the Bay Adelaide Centre to be higher than official plan limits. The developers thus gave a small portion of the lot to the city and spent $5 million to build a park.
Designed by Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, the MBTW Group/Watchorn Architects, and two artists—Margaret Priest and Tony Sherman—the park features elaborate landscape design. The western part of the park includes a network of pathways and is edged by cluster of trees around a semicircular lawn. The eastern portion is marked by series of walkways climbing past a waterfall. Rising above this area is a monument to Toronto's construction workers designed by Margaret Priest and constructed by the Building Trades Union. It comprises squares that each illustrate one of the building trades. Thus one shows a network of steel rebars, another, a cluster of wiring.
The namesake feature of the Gardens is a small greenhouse set to the cool and moist conditions of certain mountain ecologies. A walkway runs from the lower-level entrance to an upper-level exit by the waterfall. Occasionally, parkour teams of Toronto will train here. Cloud Gardens won Baird Sampson Architects a Governor General's Architecture Award.
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