Harbourfront Centre brings Nordic arts and culture to Canada

Inspired by the innovation and sustainability initiatives coming out of the Nordic Region, Harbourfront Centre highlights Nordic ingenuity in its forthcoming festival programming. “We will be connecting brilliant contemporary artists and thinkers from the Nordic Region with Canada for a year-long celebration of multidisciplinary arts and culture,” says the organization. Here’s…

December 13, 2021

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Large permanent living architecture sculpture unveiled in Cambridge, Ont.

A large permanent living architecture sculpture is now open to the public at the Tapestry Hall in Cambridge, ON. Created by artist and University of Waterloo Architecture professor Philip Beesley, with the Living Architecture Systems Group, Meander is a soaring installation of meshwork spheres, columns and canopies that suspends from the new event space along…

October 27, 2020

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Igloo dining comes to Toronto’s InterContinental Yorkville hotel

Just steps from the buzz of Bloor Street in Toronto, the InterContinental Toronto Yorkville is offering guests yet another transformative experience unlike anything else – the chance to dine in heated, transparent igloos that provide warmth and comfort, while surrounded by Canada's winter elements. On now until the end of March, the hotel's Proof Patio…

February 5, 2019

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Warming Huts installations return to heat up Winnipeg winter

The Warming Huts are back! Presented by Artis REIT, Winnipeg’s popular winter installations return for 2019, with engaging new installations. Started in 2009, Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice has been melding world-class design and art with Winnipeg’s famous winters. This year, seven new installations hit the ice: By Invitation: TERJE ISUNGSET — Ice…

February 1, 2019

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bulthaup and Luvere Studio light up Toronto with light installation

Running until January 27, bulthaup Toronto and Luvere Studio present “Light Cage Duo” as part of the annual DesignTO Festival. Luvere Studio created the unique two-part installation for kitchen and dining use, the third in a series of installations previously presented at Wanted Design Manhattan 2018 and Vancouver IDS 2018. Light Cage Duo is a living…

January 21, 2019

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Backcountry Hut to create Design Concept House for IDS19

The Backcountry Hut Company has been selected by IDS Toronto to provide the Design Concept House for the latest edition taking place from January 17 to 20, 2019. Responding to IDS’ theme ‘Power of Design,’ this year’s full-scale concept house enables visitors to enter and experience a new ‘kit-of-parts’ approach to the creation of small…

October 23, 2018

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Striking ‘Solar Equation’ installation unveiled in Québec City

After travelling to Germany, Australia, England and South Korea, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Solar Equation will be making its Canadian premiere at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). The installation will shine like a thousand suns—or at least one Sun—in the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion's Grand Hall from September 27, 2018 to February 24, 2019. For the…

September 27, 2018

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STACKLAB installation a finalist for SBID International Design Excellence Award

STACKLAB’s Wild Abode installation is a finalist in the 2018 SBID International Design Excellence Award in the Public Spaces category. The competition, based in London, England, ranks among the most prestigious interior design award events on the global design calendar. Winners will be announced at a ceremony at London’s iconic Dorchester hotel on Oct. 26. “We’re…

September 12, 2018

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Mexican architect Frida Escobedo set to design 2018 Serpentine Pavilion

Architect Frida Escobedo, celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018. Harnessing a subtle interplay of light, water and geometry, the Mexican architect’, atmospheric courtyard-based design draws on both the domestic architecture of Mexico and British materials and history, specifically the Prime Meridian line at London’s…

February 9, 2018

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Winning installations unveiled for Toronto’s Winter Stations

An iconic item of headwear, a nuclear cooling tower that celebrates wind-power and a giant Futurist intonarumori instrument are coming to Toronto's east end beaches this winter, as part of the fourth annual Winter Stations International Design Competition. Four winning designs were selected from hundreds of submissions from around the world by this year's Winter Stations…

January 5, 2018