Photo by Steven Evans Photography
PLANT Architect Inc. has unveiled bird-watching pavilions at the East Point Park Sanctuary on the Scarborough bluffs.
The project is part of a citywide initiative to enhance and protect bird habitat and increase birding activity through public education programming. A newly completed Viewing Pavilion, Bird Blind and entry signage will enhance the East Point birding experience, as will the network of new and rehabilitated nature trails that PLANT has developed for this park. East Point’s pavilions provide shelter and gathering spaces and are vantage points for Lake Ontario and pond views.
Photo by Steven Evans Photography
The pavilions were designed by Toronto’s PLANT Architect Inc., an award-winning practice that branches into architecture, landscape and design. The studio?s areas of specialty include institutional and residential architecture and landscape architecture, urban infrastructure, public space, feasibility studies and master planning. The Viewing Pavilion. Photo by Steven Evans Photography
Detail of the bird species screen on the Viewing Pavilion. Photo by Steven Evans Photography
PLANT’s pavilions explore the use of architecture as a means of framing, enhancing and respecting the natural qualities of one of Toronto?s most beautiful parks. The structures called for sheets of weathering steel to be folded into shapes that are evocative of flight. Laser-cut through the Viewing Pavilion?s walls are clouds of ...