How can you not love the animal sculptures? Perfect setting for them. I'm all for a northern Ontario look here; windswept trees and all. This is Ontario Place...and most of Ontario is wilderness.
If you want windswept trees and isolation, just head over to Tommy Thompson Park. You'll get miles and miles of bush, just like northern Ontario. The spit is huge and it's surrounded by water on all sides. I think Ontario Place should be a little more urban. Why build more of what we already have lots of?
Walk along the Don or Humber rivers and you will also see miles and miles of undeveloped wilderness. It goes right from the waterfront to the northern edge of the city. We also have Rouge park, which is the largest urban wilderness park in the world. It's also completely empty of people. It's just sitting there waiting to be used by human beings but nobody seems to notice it. Ask people if they have ever been there. Almost nobody in Toronto has set foot in it, except the small section of it that contains the Toronto Zoo.
Does Toronto have a great need for more passive wilderness? I'd say no. What we really lack, is great, urban parks that actually give people a reason to go there. (besides taking fido to poop or jog/cycle through it for exercise)
How many parks do you see in Toronto like Golden Gate Park or Central Park? Those parks have theatres, art galleries, museums, great fountains, boat rentals, zoos and other fun things that people want to see and do. Where are our great active, animated, creative parks? We have lots of (grass & trees) parks for sports but what about art and culture? Do we have any culture parks? Sure, we have Harbourfront but that's not a park, it's a neighbourhood with some minor cultural/arts attractions. Yeah, I know, great cultural/arts parks cost money and we are so very poor.
So how about we stop building passive parks and save our money for a really great arts/cultural park? Wasn't Ontario Place supposed to be that great arts/cultural park? So what happened?