Existing Hough Materials: Inventory – Hough's Ontario Place: Landscape

“The general quality of the landscape is tough, simple, strongly textured, and urban.”¹ - Michael Hough

Ontario Place has undergone multiple physical transformations since it was first opened in 1971, such as the replacement of the Forum in 1994 with what is now the Budweiser Stage, as well as the demolition of the Children’s Village in 2002. However, approximately half of its ground surface materials today are presumed original to Hough’s design, such as concrete walls and steps, asphalt paving, and stone edge conditions.²

Furthermore, original landscape features like benches, lampposts, wooden stairs and retaining walls, as well as berms planted with trees dating to the opening of the site also remain in Ontario Place today.

Edge Condition: West End (Current Condition) Image: Anne Field

Path Pavers (Current Condition) Image: Anne Field

Pavers and Wood Border (Current Condition) Image: Anne Field

Lighting (Current Condition) Image: Anne Field

Pathway from Budweiser Stage to East Village (Current Condition) Image: Anne Field

Original Light Element (Current Condition) Image: Ozyka Videlia

Stepped ramp, East Island (Current Condition) Image: Ozyka Videlia

Wood Border (Current Condition) Image: Ozyka Videlia

Original Light Element with Wood Border (Current Condition) Image: Anne Field

Bench, Date Undetermined (Current Condition) Image: Anne Field

Notes:

1. Hough Stansbury and Associates, 1970, Ontario Place – The First Step in the Renewal of Toronto’s Waterfront (1970), p. 39.

2. Ibid.

Material Inventory Drawings by Anne Field and Ozyka Videlia

“The general quality of the landscape is tough, simple, strongly textured, and urban.”1 - Michael Hough

“The general quality of the landscape is tough, simple, strongly textured, and urban.”¹ - Michael Hough