The Pods are five interconnected pavilions hung mast-like from cables. When Ontario Place opened in 1971, three pods housed exhibitions which explored Ontario’s past, present, and future-. The two remaining pods housed an entrance …

Ontario Place pods. The park was built by the Ontario Department of Trade and Development. The architects were Craig, Zeidler and Strong, the structural engineers were Gordon Dowdell Associates, the landscape architects were Hough, Stansbury and Associates, and the general contractor was Secant Construction. Construction started on March 17 ...

2022年10月4日 · Ontario Place was a project designed to revitalize Toronto\'s waterfront. The site consisted of over 90 acres of artifically-made islands and lagoons. A break-water was formed using sunken ships. The Atlantis Pavilions won a Canadian Architect Award Excellence in 1969, and a 25-Year Award from the Ontario Association of Architects in 1999.

As part of the redevelopment of Ontario Place, construction activities have started across the site, including repairs to the Cinesphere, Pod complex, and bridges. Site servicing construction work began in Spring 2023 to upgrade the site’s critical infrastructure, such as sewage, water, electrical and gas services.

The Ontario Place Pods’ elegant structural system, combining light tensile cable supports and compression steel masts, is superbly detailed, with very beautifully expressed connections and joints. The complex’s close relationship to Lake Ontario is celebrated through the integration of water throughout the ground plane.

Ontario Place is being brought back to life by making it a remarkable world-class, year-round destination. New recreation and entertainment tenants are anchored around the revitalized central Pods and Cinesphere complex, while a modernized public realm will connect and integrate destinations across the site.

2019年5月8日 · Completed in 1971, Ontario Place’s Cinesphere and Pods were designed by Toronto architect Eberhard Zeidler. The Cinesphere, which has been recently renovated, is a 35-metre-wide dome that housed the world’s first permanent theatre for IMAX technology.

Five architectural “pods” served as flexible exhibition spaces: Suspended over the water and related to one another by a superstructure, these were also connected to a spherical dome, the Cinesphere, which housed the world’s first IMAX theater.

Five pavilions, named “Pods”, were designed for flexible exhibition space and suspended by steel cables from four large central pylons driven deep into the lakebed. The Cinesphere connects with the pods and contains the first purpose-built IMAX theatre in the world.

Opened in 1971, the three artificial islands of Ontario Place are home to some of Canada’s most iconic entertainment attractions. These include the geodesic Cinesphere and five pavilion Pods, poised above the waters of Lake Ontario.