A still from the Quayside launch video, featuring numerous architects and photos of Toronto's green spaces and renderings of the future site.
We’re All Connected
Quayside
A still from the Quayside launch video, featuring numerous architects and photos of Toronto's green spaces and renderings of the future site.
We’re All Connected
Quayside
A still from the Quayside launch video, featuring numerous architects and photos of Toronto's green spaces and renderings of the future site.
We’re All Connected
Quayside
Closeup of a person taking an iPhone photo of the Quayside exhibit.

The vision for Quayside is of a place that makes space for connection between people, animals, rain, trees, and all of life. A twelve-acre site in downtown Toronto, it is the geographic heart of a cluster of historically and culturally significant neighborhoods, linking St. Lawrence, the West Don Lands, the Distillery District, Bayside, and the future Villiers Island. Frontier partnered with Dream & Great Gulf to lead the storytelling of their winning development proposal, and, through several engagement sessions, the creation of a Community Impact Vision and tenant-needs plan.

Visioning, Video, Public Engagement
Closeup of a person taking an iPhone photo of the Quayside exhibit.

The vision for Quayside is of a place that makes space for connection between people, animals, rain, trees, and all of life. A twelve-acre site in downtown Toronto, it is the geographic heart of a cluster of historically and culturally significant neighborhoods, linking St. Lawrence, the West Don Lands, the Distillery District, Bayside, and the future Villiers Island. Frontier partnered with Dream & Great Gulf to lead the storytelling of their winning development proposal, and, through several engagement sessions, the creation of a Community Impact Vision and tenant-needs plan.

Visioning, Video, Public Engagement
Three people gathered around a wall filled with post-it notes.
Workshop participants pointing towards a map of the site.
Three people gathered around a wall filled with post-it notes.
Workshop participants pointing towards a map of the site.
Stakeholders participating in a workshop, collectively uncovering their common purpose
Community Impact Vision and Preliminary Spatial Plan

After helping to secure the project, we led multiple community and stakeholder workshops, resulting in a comprehensive Community Impact Vision and Preliminary Spatial Plan document. We also designed and built a portable, interactive structure to inform and engage the public to help shape the future of Quayside. Participants offered input on key project details, such as the overall mission and guiding principles, through both voting mechanism and written replies.

Closeup of an audience-written response that reads "More food and shopping on the waterfront."

After helping to secure the project, we led multiple community and stakeholder workshops, resulting in a comprehensive Community Impact Vision and Preliminary Spatial Plan document. We also designed and built a portable, interactive structure to inform and engage the public to help shape the future of Quayside. Participants offered input on key project details, such as the overall mission and guiding principles, through both voting mechanism and written replies.

Closeup of an audience-written response that reads "More food and shopping on the waterfront."
Pedestrian and cyclist visitors interacting with the exhibit strucutre: a large, wooden armature that supports information and architects' renderings printed onto plywood boards, alongside a number of interactive components.
A person voting using an interactive mechanism where balls are dropped into transparent boxes to display total audience votes.
A young couple reading exhibit material.
A person voting using an interactive mechanism where balls are dropped into transparent boxes to display total audience votes.
A young couple reading exhibit material.
Two visitors talking about exhibit content.
A wide view of a bright outdoor space featuring the exhibit structure.
A young child interacting with the structure.

Activation photos by Shiraz Ali.

A wide view of a bright outdoor space featuring the exhibit structure.
A young child interacting with the structure.

Activation photos by Shiraz Ali.