Roundhouse Park at Station Lands
Where Edmonton’s past and future meet: A new heart for gathering, play, and performance
Urbanism
Roundhouse Park is imagined as the connective heart of Station Lands – an inviting, publicly accessible yet privately owned green space that ties together the Royal Alberta Museum forecourt, the Columbia Avenue streetscape, Epcor Tower, the forthcoming Switch development, and the future build‑out across the district.
Immediately north of the civic precinct and fronting 104 Avenue, 101 Street, and 105 Avenue, this 46285-square-foot park is designed to link Chinatown and the Boyle/McCauley neighbourhoods through downtown to the river valley, strengthening physical, social, and cultural bonds across the city’s core. Its vision emerged through a collaborative process led by Qualico and shaped by many voices, grounded in the City of Edmonton’s Downtown Public Places Plan, the Capital City Downtown Plan, the Chinatown Strategy, and the City Plan.
Beneath this generous landscape lies a feat of urban design: Roundhouse Park is an intensive green roof. Its western half is constructed over the existing Epcor parkade; its eastern half, over an expansion of the parkade now underway and above LRT tunnels. These layered structural conditions guided innovative soil profiles, planting strategies, and program placement, ensuring a resilient, lush environment where people and nature can thrive atop infrastructure.
The park delivers what the core needs most: more green space, more performance‑ready places, and a more flexible public realm that can shift seamlessly between programmed events and everyday use. By weaving history, community priorities, and urban innovation into one cohesive experience, Roundhouse Park embodies Edmonton’s spirit of bold, joyful placemaking and is poised to become a beloved destination for generations to come.
- Location
- Edmonton, AB
- Size
- 46,285 sq ft
- Client
- Qualico
- Completion
- 2025
- DIALOG Services
- Collaborators
ECCOM Consulting
Ledcor
Landscape Architecture
Structural Engineering
At the centre of this vision is a park that balances everyday ease with civic energy.
The Park serves as an essential link between city landmarks and neighbourhoods, creating an oasis connecting new and existing properties to be discovered and shared by people who live in, work at, and visit the immediate area.
On November 24, 1905, the first passenger train arrived at the Canadian Northern Railway Station here, ushering Edmonton into the railway era and transforming this site into a nexus of connection and commerce. Today, that legacy is renewed in Roundhouse Park’s very name and in the Trestle Bridge, which together celebrate the area’s rail history while recasting the grounds as a connector for all Edmontonians.
Native pollinator gardens and meadows edge the open lawn with colour and habitat, while flexible plazas, a natural play area, and a versatile performance stage welcome everything from quiet lunches to community celebrations.
A fine‑grained network of pedestrian and cycling routes weaves these components together, inviting year‑round exploration and making the park a true hinge between landmarks and neighbourhoods.
The Team
