Under the Expressway: The Bentway
Anyone with an even passing familiarity with Toronto?s history knows that late 19th-century railways and post-war highways posed an existential threat to Fort York, rendering it physically isolated for decades. But in 2011, planner Ken Greenberg penned an essay in the Fife & Drum, a Friends of Fort York newsletter, arguing that it will (or could) become a kind of central park for the large cluster of condos going up all around it. ?That was simply throwing out an idea,? he says.
Seven years later, one element of that vision?touted as the first phase of what will be a long-term implementation of urban animation?has come to fruition: The Bentway, a multi-purpose linear park snaking underneath the same elevated Gardiner Expressway that nearly obliterated the Fort many years earlier. Running in a double-S-shaped corridor abutting the Fort?s southern bulwark and its visitor centre by Patkau Architect and Kearns Mancini Architects (Canadian Architect, September 2014), The Bentway has sought to take advantage of the strange beauty of the space beneath the highway, the proximity to new high-rise neighbourhoods and the excess capacity in the ?bents,? as the structures that hold up the roadway are known. Funded with a $25 million donation by Judy and Wilmot Matthews, the Bentway will be managed by a conservancy. Greenberg has served as the project planner.
While dense cities like Tokyo and London have reclaimed areas beneath elevated expressways for buildings and sports fields, t...
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