THE FUSE

Fittingly, I’m starting my very first Take 5 with this marvel of a park by CCxA (formerly Claude Cormier et Associés). Located near Toronto’s downtown lakeshore, Love Park brings literal heart to public space. Like much of the late Montreal landscape architect’s work, among which were many gifts to Toronto, Claude Cormier‘s Love Park is both heartfelt and cheeky. This is the same genius who created a fountain replete with sculptures of dogs and cats, who fashioned a pink-umbrella-ed beach next to an industrial sugar factory and so much more!