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LAKE WILCOX PARK WATERFRONT PROMENADE

PROJECT CREDITS PROJECT FACTS

OWNER LOCATION Richmond Hill, Ontario The Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill COMPLETION August 2014 ARCHITECT OF RECORD Dillon Consulting PROJECT SUMMARY The promenade at Park showcases many ENGINEER OF RECORD artistic concrete applications which highlight the main R. J. Burnside & Associates Limited themes of the park’s design: water, wildlife, and the cultural history of this beloved place. GENERAL CONTRACTOR Rutherford Contracting Ltd.

SPECIALITY CONTRACTOR UCC Group Inc.

MATERIAL SUPPLIERS Ed’s Concrete Products Ltd. Innocon 2014 Stone-Link Corp.

ADDITIONAL PARTICIPANTS • Carpenters Local 27 • Ironworkers Local 721 • LIUNA Local 183

Coloured concrete adds visual interest

The Lake Wilcox Waterfront Promenade is one piece of a These park themes large master plan that includes multiple phases and were reflected in projects that demonstrates initiative in protecting, the artwork and preserving and enhancing the inherent natural resources functional structures of the complex site, while balancing within the park. the recreational needs of the community on the Artistic and waterfront parkland setting. innovative use of concrete helped to The promenade is 450 metres long and 4 meters wide (on bring many of these average). Portions of the promenade are made of cast in thematic ideas to place concrete, coloured concrete, precast concrete unit life, while providing pavers and custom precast pavers. The park entry signs a unifying material are faced with precast concrete panels. language for the From numerous consultations with local stakeholders, design. First Nations representatives, and historic research, key Custom precast concrete panels adorned with silhouettes themes emerged to form the basis for the design of the of wildlife imagery is used as facing for the base of the waterfront promenade: The cultural heritage of First main park entrance, adding an artistic element and Nations and 19th century settlement and community, and reinforcing the natural heritage theme. the natural heritage encompassing the unique wildlife, geology, glaciations and hydrology of the site. A graphic wave pattern made of coloured concrete adds visual interest to the main pathway, while highlighting the importance of the water to this site. Inspirational poems and quotes about nature or the history of the site are sandblasted into concrete paving and seat walls. The theme of “the journey” that this site has taken through time and through the humans and animals that continue to pass through it are symbolized by footprints of humans and animals embedded in the poured in place concrete pathways. First nations settlement is reflected through precast concrete unit pavers arranged in a traditional moccasin pattern at entry points to the promenade. 19th century settlement is reflected in the custom precast concrete paving stones with a pattern of horseshoes, wagon wheels and a locomotive.