Real Estate listings near Sherbourne Common

Sherbourne Common is a first park in Toronto that includes storm-water treatment facility and is located on Lower Sherbourne Street at Queen's Quay designed for year-round public use. It is a 1.5 hectare park in a close proximity to the waterfront and the Sugar Beach. It has a 240 metre long water channel for the purified neighbourhood-wide storm-water with 3 concrete, 9 metre high, public art objects, dressed up with stain glass panels and coloured outdoor lights ("Light Showers" art sculpture designed by Jill Anholt) (light patters are triggered by motion detectors ); a Pavilion (the 2009 Awards of Excellence by the Canadian Architect winner; that is the only national awards that recognize projects in the design stage since '80s, by a magazine for architects and related professionals practicing in Canada started in 1955) with a storm-water filtering and ultraviolet (UV) disinfection facility in the basement, equipped with /powered by a renewable energy sources The UV system is sized to treat 70 litres per second and is designed to disinfect viruses, bacteria and protozoa including chlorine-resistant Cryptosporidium and Giardia.