Corktown Common has more than 700 trees that are bursting with colour right now. (Image by Nicola Betts)

POSTED: NOVEMBER 9, 2016 I PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, PUBLIC ART, WALKABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS
By: Meghan Hogan

The George sits adjacent to the new Cooper Koo Family YMCA and former CN Police Building at the corner of Cherry Street and Front Street (Image from Urban Toronto). 

POSTED: JUNE 28, 2016
BY: MEGHAN HOGAN

Detail of Caryatid (left) and Atlas (right), two of the sculptures that compose Garden of Future Follies, by Hadley+Maxwell.
POSTED: JUNE 28, 2016 I PUBLIC ART, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, DESIGN
By: Ilana Shamoon

The riotous graffiti artwork at Underpass Park takes full advantage of the imposing concrete beams and columns to create a fun and energetic atmosphere (Photo credit: Nicola Betts).

POSTED: MAY 18, 2016 
By: Meghan Hogan

Building on the success of Nuit Blanche 2015 and our recent Sugar Beach Sugar Shack event, we’re doing even more to help Torontonians revisit and reimagine their waterfront. (Image: Christof Migone’s Hit installed on Queens Quay. Photo by Connie Tsang.)

POSTED: APRIL 20, 2016 I PUBLIC ART, DESIGN, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES
BY: CHRISTOPHER McKINNON

From Parliament Street to the Don River and King Street to the Rail corridor, the West Don Lands is people focused, family friendly and environmentally sustainable.

POSTED: APRIL 7, 2016
BY: CAROL WEBB

Arts and cultural events are enticing Torontonians to revisit their waterfront. Last year’s edition of Nuit Blanche, in particular, was an extraordinary success.

POSTED: JANUARY 29, 2016 I PUBLIC ART, DESIGN, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

Thirteen art projects in The Work of the Wind will take over the waterfront for this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche produced by the City of Toronto.

POSTED: OCTOBER 1, 2015 I PUBLIC ART, DESIGN, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, WALKABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS

This Saturday night, hundreds of art works and installations will take over Toronto. It’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche – one of the city’s most exciting annual events – where we collectively spend one sleepless night wandering around downtown, taking in a host of contemporary art projects.

Artist Rolande Souliere with her assistants in front of her work in progress for the Bala Underpass. (All photos are courtesy of the artist.)

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
BY: REBECCA CARBIN

Have you recently travelled along Queens Quay or exited the Gardiner Expressway at York Street and wondered about the blue windsocks – where they came from, what they’re for, what they represent and why that blue looks so familiar?

By Rebecca Carbin