Sugar Beach
| Sugar Beach | |
|---|---|
The beach in 2016 | |
| Type | Urban beach park |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Created | August 9, 2010 |
| Operated by | City of Toronto |
| Awards | Azure magazine's AZ People's Choice Award: Best Landscape Architecture (2012) National Urban Design Award, Civic Design Projects (2012) American Society of Landscape Architects' Honor Award (2012): General Design |
Sugar Beach is an urban beach park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that opened in 2010. It is located across from Redpath Sugar Refinery in Toronto's eastern East Bayfront. Like HTO Park to the west, the beach is not meant for wading or swimming in Lake Ontario, but rather functions as a waterfront public space for relaxation, leisure, and social activities. It cost $14 million.
A Waterfront Toronto project, the park is designed by landscape architecture firm Claude Cormier + Associés Inc. It features a sandy beach with ornamental lighting, umbrellas, Muskoka chairs, rocky amphitheatre and candy trim, and pedestrian areas paved with granite setts in three colours arranged in a stylized maple leaf motif.
Since 2011, the beach has been the setting for the Toronto Port Authority's Sail-In Cinema event, with an inflatable movie screen mounted on a custom-built barge approximately 50 metres south of the beach.