Cloud Gardens won Baird Sampson Architects a Governor General's Architecture Award. A walkway runs from the lower-level entrance to an upper-level exit by the waterfall. The namesake feature of the Gardens is a small greenhouse set to the cool and moist conditions of a cloud rainforest. Thus one shows a network of steel rebars, another, a cluster of wiring. It comprises squares that each illustrate one of the building trades.
Rising above this area is a monument to Toronto's construction workers designed by Margaret Priest and constructed by the Building Trades Union.
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The eastern portion is marked by series of walkways climbing past a waterfall. The conservatory was renovated in 2014 and re-opened. The western part of the park includes a network of pathways and is edged by cluster of trees around a semicircular lawn. The Cloud Gardens Conservatory is located in the busy downtown core sitting in the Bay Adelaide Centre. Landscape design and artĭesigned by Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, the MBTW Group/Watchorn Architects, and two artists-Margaret Priest and Tony Scherman-the park features elaborate landscape design. The Centennial Park Conservatory complex was designed and constructed in 1969 and was formally opened by Etobicoke Mayor Horton on March 21, 1970. The developers thus gave a small portion of the lot to the city and spent $5 million to build a park. 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 park is currently closed for construction and repairs. It extends from the south side Richmond Street to the north side of Temperance Street, between Yonge Street and Bay Street, on of land. Cloud Gardens or "Bay Adelaide Park" and "Cloud Gardens Conservatory" is a small park in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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