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DS6-3
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Spadina Circle - Russell
Street
Detailed Master Plan Concept
The following features and concepts are
proposed as the design framework for this Demonstration Site. The numbered
items refer to drawing DS6-3.
- 1. The open space of Spadina Circle
should be the subject of a landscape restoration plan to include pedestrian
plazas accessed from both intersections of Spadina Crescent and Russell
Street, removal of the fencing and a planting plan to allow Spadina
Circle to become a valuable contribution to the open space in the
district. A crosswalk should be considered for each intersection of
Spadina Crescent and Russell Street.
- 2. University Development Site 7 should
consider adding to the tradition of courtyard buildings on campus
by creating a central outdoor courtyard in the Circle. Access to the
courtyard should occur along the Russell Street alignment and provide
a cross-circle pedestrian route.
- 3. The eastern outside edge and the
entire inside edge of Spadina Circle should be planted with deciduous
street trees to restore the urban forest that once existed in this
area. Adjustments to the pavement of the eastern outside edge should
include a wider sidewalk and additional tree planting locations. The
eastern intersection of Russell Street and Spadina Crescent should
receive a Marker to signal the entry to the campus, possibly as a
public art installation.
- 4. Russell Street should be programmed
for a new road cross section, pedestrian system and street tree planting
or street landscaping plan to improve the pedestrian amenity and contribute
to a distinctive streetscape for the West Campus streets. Modifications
should consider a reduction of the travel-way of the street and the
possible one-way routing of automobiles.
- 5. The intersection of Huron and Russell
Streets should be reconfigured as a continuous street plaza and raised
to form a traffic table to favour pedestrians. Automobile traffic
should be contained by bollards.
- 6. Huron Street should be programmed
for a new road cross section, pedestrian system and street tree planting
or street landscaping plan to improve the pedestrian amenity and contribute
to a distinctive streetscape for the West Campus streets. Modifications
should consider a reduction of the travel-way of the street and the
possible one-way routing of automobiles.
- 7. The termination of Russell Street
at St. George Street should be treated as a landscaped walkway through
to the back of Simcoe Hall. A similar walkway should be created along
the west wall of Simcoe Hall to improve pedestrian connections and
create an attractive foreground for the view of the Convocation Hall
dome.
- 8. A landscaped walkway between Knox
College and the north wall of University Development Site 10 should
enhance the connection between the University Visitor Centre and St.
George Street and the new walkways in items 7 and 9 of this Demonstration
Site.
- 9. Galbraith Road should be reconfigured
to allow one-way automobile traffic from King's College Road westbound
and developed as a fully landscaped pedestrian route from St. George
Street to Convocation Hall. This will allow for the development of
a car-free Convocation Hall Plaza as described in Demonstration Site
2.
- 10. Russell Street should be considered
for public art installations to enhance the aesthetics of the corridor.
Suggested locations include the eastern intersection of Russell Street
and Spadina Crescent, three locations in the Huron and Russell Streets
intersection, and at the termination of Russell Street at St. George
Street within the landscaped walkway to Simcoe Hall.
- 11. A landscape plan for the McLennan
Physical Laboratories Building terrace facing Russell Street should
be undertaken to integrate it with the improvements to Russell Street.
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