Toronto Pan Am Village in the West Don Lands | ?m | ?s | DundeeKilmer | KPMB

[PinkLucy]

There actually only one half of a bigger piece. The other section is actually in ireland and has people leaving for a better life or fleeing, being deported because of crimes.

This is reason enough to visit Ireland -- something I have always wanted to do anyway

 

[DonValleyRainbow]

Then you are going to break it, and it won't be repaired for a decade

AoD

For anyone who was concerned, "smashing" was an exaggeration.

 

[Armour]

Those bronze statues have an alarming amount of varicose veins.

 

[smably]

Great blog post from Waterfront Toronto with some background on the Garden of Future Follies (varicose vein sculpture) and other public art in the West Don Lands:
http://blog.waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe...lic-Art-Capped-Off-With-A-19th-Century-Garden

Garden of Future Follies is an intricate and playful homage to Toronto. It comprises 190 details, collected from over 80 different pre-existing monuments and architectural features from around the city, cast in bronze and composed within seven distinct sculptures. With names like Atlas, Caryatid, and Gargoyle, “all the sculptures are collaged fragments,” say the artists in a recent interview for The Artful City blog series. Hadley Howes continues, “Jack Layton’s smile is one of seven that grace a figure lounging atop a reconstituted mantel from the library at Osgoode Hall; a bell from St. James Cathedral’s famous collection is perched on a cannon from Fort York; while nearby a suitcase from the Memorial to Italian Immigrants acts as a plinth for a collection of hats from various bronze heads.”

And there's some info on where the weird textures came from:

Using a cinefoil process, Hadley+Maxwell pressed a thick aluminum foil material against the chosen objects, creating textured imprints of their shapes. The resulting aluminum impressions were subsequently used to create molds for the final bronze versions.

 

[Tulse]

That description/context gives me a much greater appreciation for the work. Without that, it just seemed a bit creepy to me with the limbs and faces collaged together.

 

[ADRM]

Loads of neat angles from which to shoot among the various installations in the 'hood.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Loads of neat angles from which to shoot among the various installations in the 'hood.

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so who's responsible for changing the light bulbs in that?

 

[Ryan_T]

Hire the parkour/free-runners to do it.

 

[mc_twizzle]

If any of you want to get an inside perspective on this area + meet lots of Toronto's real estate developers, ULI's Summer Social is taking place at an empty retail unit+patio on Thursday.
http://toronto.uli.org/event/summer-social-2016/

 

[TheKingEast]

 

[Edward Skira]

Every time I see an update it seems I see a few more people wandering around. Good to see.

 

[Tulse]

It's not crowded, but there is certainly a fair bit of pedestrian activity around. I imagine that will increase substantially once the retail really gets up and running in the neighbourhood. It appears that Tabulé will be ready in a couple of weeks, and Dark Horse and Sukothai in perhaps a month (some of the other spaces have signs but no evidence of activity, and a few of the spaces seem not to be leased yet).

 

[achender]

Wasn't sure where to put these, hopefully I'm not too far off.

Taken today. Apparently "Wonscotonach" is the Mississauga First Nations name for the Don River. I think I like it better.

 

[interchange42]

The painted ramp supports look great! Too bad they'll be gone in a couple years time. What I wonder is why did they paint up something that has such a short time left to remain…

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[Lenser]

I'm happy to see those murals, even if they last for a couple of years - beats looking at unadorned concrete.