多伦多广场屋顶的花园景观/PLANT Architect inc

发布于：2023-05-22 00:23:17

The square roof garden landscape

设计方：PLANT Architect inc

位置：加拿大

分类：广场

内容：实景照片

图片来源：Steven Evans

景观时间：2010年

项目规模：11000平方米

图片：12张

内森·菲利普斯广场（Nathan Phillips Square）是多伦多市政厅前院的大众广场，位于皇后西街和卑街交界处，以1955年-1962年期间担任市长的内森·菲利普斯（Nathan Phillips）命名。广场在1965年启用，和市政厅一样，都是出自芬兰建筑师Viljo Revell手笔。2006年10月，市政府举办广场重建设计比赛，经过有关方面的评审之后，宣布植物设计事务所（ PLANT Architect Inc）赢得了内森·菲利普斯广场的设计竞赛。

这座广场曾是一个冷酷的、空旷平坦的场地，保持对公众关闭长达十多年。但在今天经过改造之后，它的屋顶花园已经是加拿大全国范围内规模最大的公共绿色屋顶花园成为多伦多屋顶花园设计的典范。经过改建后，这郁郁葱葱的都市广场收到市民的一致欢迎，成为具有集会，举行仪式，欣赏建筑等活动功能的场地。

市政厅前的平台地面由大理石铺成，边缘是环形石凳，前方有一个小型咖啡厅，还有其他系列公共设施。这里的花坛里还种植着多种植被。广场的设计灵感来自保罗•克利1932年写的复调音乐（Polyphony ），因此广场中还设计了23中景天属植物物和42种牧草组成复合种植模式，设计师利用植物的色彩形成了一种由亮黄色向紫红色渐变的视觉效果。

译者：饭团小组

In the spring of 2007, PLANT Architect Inc. won the international competition to redesign the iconic Nathan Phillips Square and Podium at Toronto City Hall in joint venture with Perkins+Will Canada, and with Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architect, and Adrian Blackwell Urban Projects. ThePodium Roof Garden is the first transformation in the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization entitled AGORA/THEATRE. This three-acre, upper-level component of the 1965 iconic City Hall was originally conceived by the Finnish architect Viljo Revell as a public ceremonial space made accessible by a giant sculptural ramp.

This space proved to be a grim, paved void, remaining closed to the public for over a decade. Today, this heritage site is the largest publicly accessible green roof garden in Canada. It serves as the flagship green roof project for the City of Toronto, and has been recognized as a leading example of the city’s award-winning Green Roof By-Law.

The project fulfils the original potential of Revell’s design by creating a place for gathering, ceremony, and where one can admire the towers’ fine architectural detail. This lush metropolitan haven has now become a site for intimacy, lingering and strolling, large-scale art installations, and wedding chapel gatherings.

The Podium is organized with a black-granite paved courtyard, a long curving bench that frames the Council Chamber, a striped café that occupies the prow, a perimeter walk and walk that borders the towers with custom concrete pavers, furniture and lighting, a vast garden, and a raised tree planter that beckons visitors up from the main Square—its three Kentucky Coffee trees providing shade as they grow to a mature height of 40 feet.

Inspired by Paul Klee’s Polyphony (1932), the garden features a complex mosaic of 23 sedum species inter-planted with 42 species of grasses and perennials—the colours progressing from brighter yellows and oranges in the SW to deeper reds and purples in the NE reflecting orientation and shade conditions.