Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge - Design Competition Shortlist

SpruceLab is excited to announce that, along with other talented firms, we have been shortlisted for the Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge competition, by Waterfront Toronto. This is an exciting and potentially precedent-setting project that will become an asset to the City of Toronto, its many thousands of future residents to live and work in the area, and contribute to the dynamic vitality of Toronto’s waterfront community. And importantly, the inclusion of Indigenous Voices through engagement and design has been integral to the project from the beginning.

“The Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge will link the Quayside neighbourhood and Toronto’s downtown to an expanded regional park system along the Don River and the emergent Villiers Island. It will contribute to the creation of a continuous and publicly accessible water’s edge along the harbour and play a critical role in providing safe, direct, and equitable access across the Keating Channel.” - Waterfront Toronto

SpruceLab is collaborating with EXP, Buro Happold, INFORM Studio, 4 Directions Conservation, and others. Together, this team brings excellence in an array of knowledges, skills and experience, from locally to around the world. This future bridge is located in Treaty 13 lands, ‘The Toronto Purchase’, held by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the City of Toronto. It is also in the traditional Lands of the Anishinaabeg / Michi Saagiig, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat Peoples, and is now home to over 70,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit from across the country.

Along with SpruceLab’s Indigenous Advisors and other partners, we are proud and honoured to be among the incredibly talented teams that were chosen by Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and Waterfront Toronto to continue to the shortlisted part of this international design competition.

Location of the Keating Bridge; image from Waterfront Toronto