Port Lands Sports Centre
Toronto
79°20'43"W
Port Lands Sports Centre, a new sports complex in downtown Toronto on the shores of Lake Ontario, is a part of new masterplan of the Lower Don Lands area. This plan recycles 280 acres of Toronto waterfront on the former Brownfield area. The transition and the plan to integrate this post-industrial landscape into the Toronto urban matrix is a mayor city effort to colonize the Toronto’s waterfront.
One of the projects in the mixed development area is a sports centre which consists of four hockey fields.
Two solutions were proposed: a traditional concept with four hockey arenas on the ground floor, and a vertical concept with four arenas stacked on top of each other. The vertical structure, in which the halls are located one above the other, has been proposed to leave space for further urban development. This concept also acts as a sports/urban landmark visible from the downtown. The horizontal concept follows the traditional layout of the four arenas with cross walkways. The difference is that in this concept the arenas are laid on the ground irregularly, twisted towards the site lines to form a landscape allowing more generous open public walkways, with a central open courtyard.
Fact Sheet
Project name
Port Lands Sports Centre
project number
181
program
sport
status
project
project
2010 - 2010
Location
Canada, Toronto, Commissioners St. 85-95
Site area
11034 m²
Size
18846 m²
volume
160596 m³
Footprint
8244 m²
altitude
77 m
author
3LHD + RDH Architects
client
Waterfront Secretariat
Project Team
Saša Begović, Marko Dabrović, Tatjana Grozdanić Begović, Silvije Novak, Paula Kukuljica, Leon Lazaneo, Eugen Popović, Bob Goyeche, Daniel Herljević, Rob Boyko, Erik Boyko
Visualizations
Boris Goreta
Landscape Design
Balmori associates inc. - Mark Thomann
Sustainable development and construction
Halsall Associates Limited - Edwina Jobin
Structural Engineering
MMM Group Limited - Shawn Walters; Halsall Associates Limited - Shahe Sagharian, Babak Baradaran-Seyed
Mechanical Installations
Jain&Associates Limited - Dinesh Jain, Anish Jain
Electrical Engineering
Jain&Associates Limited - Dinesh Jain, Anish Jain
Parking Consultant
MMM Group Limited - Geri Kozorys-Smith
Elevator Consultant
ASCI - Clifford Ayling
Building Code Consultant
Leber Rubes Inc. - David Syrett
Acoustics
Aercoustics Engineering Limited - Rob Rimrott
