10. Berczy Park - 35 Wellington Street East

You’re standing in Berczy Park, named after early Toronto pioneer William Berczy, a German immigrant in the 18th century. Converted from a parking lot to a park decades ago, this space underwent a major redesign beginning in 2015 by landscape architect Claude Cormier. His dog fountain became an instant favourite. Find the lone cat among the dogs and follow its gaze to find a subtle design surprise.

The park has a thoughtful colour design, a departure from the grey tones Toronto is usually known for. Colour was a foundation course for Bauhaus students and Avant Garde artists like Kandinsky and Klee were brought in to teach colour. The Bauhaus’s Gertrud Brunow developed a colour wheel, part of her Harmonization Theory. In the early 20th century Grunow, a musician, developed her own methods for teaching music. At the Bauhaus she taught the equitable and harmonious use of all the senses in design. The Bauhaus building itself used colour by highlighting load-bearing and non-load-bearing elements with colour, as well as using colour-coded floors to help navigation.