The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an unused space beneath a highway in Toronto, which is being overhauled to create a new park complete with an ice-skating track.
Developed by urban designer Ken Greenberg and Toronto landscape architecture firm Public Work, the Bentway will be a linear park that occupies a mile-long stretch of previously unused land under the Gardiner Expressway. Visual is by The Flat Side of Design
While the park is not yet complete, the ice-skating route opened to the public at the beginning of 2018.
The 220 metre-long ice path weaves in a figure-of-eight around the concrete columns that support the expressway overhead. Once work on the Bentway has been completed, the trail will be flanked by landscaped gardens and public artworks.
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