Ontario Place is a rare example of a Metabolist-inspired project in the Americas. Set at the shoreline of Lake Ontario within sight of Toronto’s central business district is an experiment in Canada’s cultural image. The architect Eberhard Zeidler together with landscape architect Michael Hough, would in 1969, realize this complex consisting of a Cinesphere theater and five interconnected pods hovering over a marina below. At the western end of the Toronto’s core waterfront, it forms one edge of an archipelago of islands, each with their own historical controversies. Ontario Place is what remains realized of a larger scheme for a ‘harbour city’ which would have established a new community on a redeveloped island airport. As only a partially realized development, it continued to suffer management setbacks limiting its connections to the maturing city to the north. It partially closed in 2011, with parts of the facility open to events (weddings and a cycling race for example). The Cinesphere has since reopened as an IMAX theater and efforts are developing to revive the site.
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