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The Mountain Coming to Torontoist?

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

2006_3_3mountain.jpgSuperkul architects are guest editors over at Reading Toronto this week and they’re starting off with an idea of monumental scale. What Toronto needs is a “a mountain for everyone to enjoy, and would topographically link us to Montreal and Vancouver.”
The mountain would use dirt excavated from developments and leftovers from demolitions. Torontoist also wonders whether this would be an effective solution to the city’s garbage problem? Also what would we name the peak? The safe choice is naming it after the city, Mt. Toronto, anyone? Naming it Mt. Miller would continue our tradition of naming civic monuments after mayors. We say open it up and do the naming SkyDome style, how many people get to say they named a mountain?
Pic borrowed from Reading Toronto

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  • Palmerston

    Please no billboards on the mountain.

  • http://www.newmindspace.com kevin bracken

    i am in favor of the mountain :) i have wanted one for a while, or some other kind of interesting geography like WIDE RIVERS separating the downtown core from the rest of the city, connected by bridges.
    however, the easier solution is to construct buildings that are taller than mountains! why don’t we just say “Yes” for a change?

  • http://www.boyreporter.ca Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

    Kevin is the Don River not wide enough for you? :D
    What about the Humber? :)

  • nate

    Don’t forget the hill that Doug Coupland is ‘designing’ for Concord Place down by the waterfront.
    20,000 truckloads of soil to build a toboggan run, high enough to see over the gardiner.
    see
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=17d039fd-6b99-4543-8081-7fe5f5434d8b&k=92170
    for sample details.
    (or google ‘doug coupland park design toronto’)

  • amanaplan

    What Toronto really needs is a riverside boardwalk/waterfront thing. All of our ‘rivers’ are way downhill from the nearest sidewalk, and they’re piddly little streams with highways running next to them. Why isn’t the Don a riverside parkland you can actually get to and would want to walk through at night?

  • http://www.newmindspace.com kevin bracken

    why don’t we just build things ourselves

  • Palmerston

    not all our rivers have highways along them but the problem is the lands beside the Humber are in a flood plane so you can’t build anything riverside or it will get destroyed next time the river floods.

  • myles

    When in London last year I LOVED going to Hamstead Heath. Sure, it is a big park but the hill over looking the city was just so darned cool. I though how great would this be in Toronto and then remembered out biggest hill is Spadina ave. north of Dupont.