[DSCToronto]

Testing and landscaping prep this morning.
Closed until the grass or assuming new sod grows? Maybe they’ll add stones for grounding safety. Haha.
Thanks for the $1B+ World Cup to get everything done by June 1.

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No doubt that @kotsy will soon be tagging it :->

 

[DarwinP]

The largest waterless faucet I’ve ever seen. Hopefully the intended impact is achieved. Sculpturally speaking it doesn’t do much. It is too simple, the integration to the landscape is unimaginative and the cladding material uninteresting. Let’s hope the lighting/interactive component would make it work at least at night time, because during the day it wouldn’t make an impact

This simple design would’ve worked better if this was inside a water mirror/feature and turned into a fountain/sculpture combo, but Toronto can’t do fountains right, so I guess that wasn’t an option.

I see they added a stone pathway, which is an improvement over just grass, but also too conventional and still doesn’t elevate the design.

Overall, it is nice to see some type of art enhance the park, we need more of it, but this feels like a missed opportunity to bring memorable, impactful art that pulls visitors in, like Cloud Gate in Chicago.

 

[tripwire]

Yeah I have to say the cladding material looks disappointing. At least from the pictures. I'll have to go check it out in the next few days.

 

[skycandy]

 

[NY99]

Missed opportunity to make this a water feature — specifically, a water bottle refill station integrated at tip lol. To me that would be unironically be super artful.

serious question: would that be feasible?

 

[mburrrrr]

Maybe add a static charge like the science centre ball.

 

[Dan416]

I don't hate it. But also think it would have been cool as a water feature.

 

[GameOnBrad]

Just a baby fence around this now. Walked by this morning...

 

[rdaner]

I’m tempted to force my visitors to eat at Simona’s so I can get a reel of it lighting up.

 

[rdaner]

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30 May. Although I try to

reserve judgment until a project is complete, I was unsure how this would turn out. But I am delighted how it, and Sherbourne Common as a whole, are turning into a very nice public space.

 

[interchange42]

It was inaugurated today! I'd love to see some evening shots of it lit up by someone "completing" the arch!!

Anthony Teles

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[mburrrrr]

Not very good for selfies. It’s a two person visit. It makes a little humming noise as the light beam is moving but not a great experienced for the user.

Lola was not the first dog to try it.

 

[cryogen]

Let's hope the lights won't suffer from the Aura syndrome

 

[mburrrrr]

Fun to watch

A little scratch on my iPhone lens.

 

[interchange42]

Cool to see, thanks for the terrific pics @mburrrrr! Once the new grass is more stable and the fences come down, there's potential for some classic shots here!

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