Adjei
Senior Member
Regent Park is looking great! They have done a great job.
Toronto Paintbox | ?m | 26s | Daniels | Diamond Schmitt
- Thread starter Automation Gallery
- Start date
greenleaf
Senior Member
Thanks for pictures - the art looks great.
It does doesn't it.
TheKingEast
Senior Member
I'd love to have some of that art in my own place. It's amazing what a bit of color can do. Also, little details like this go a long way. Need more of this stuff around the city.
modernizt
Senior Member
Working toward that monthly post quota eh?
Good to see you've been promoted to admin. Congrats!
Benito
Senior Member
Love the art installation. Toronto needs more like this.
skycandy
Senior Member
rdaner
Senior Member
Interesting video presented by DSAI about the urban agriculture component of Daniels Spectrum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_dzPbfaDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_dzPbfaDI
…speaking of which building, the Daniels Spectrum has won another award recently:
CULTURAL CENTER WINS GREAT PLACES AWARD
Third international award for game-changing facility
TORONTO, May 28, 2015 – Daniels Spectrum, the transformative cultural center at the heart of a regenerated Regent Park community in downtown Toronto, received a Great Places Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles on May 27th as part of the 46th annual conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).
The EDRA Great Places Awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design and pay special attention to the relationship between physical form and human activity or experience.
Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, Daniels Spectrum provides professional performance, rehearsal, learning and social enterprise space for community-based arts and cultural groups. “It is an honor to be recognized with a Great Places Award,” said Donald Schmitt, Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects. “The design objective was to facilitate interaction among the tenants, students and the public and to make the center a vibrant and welcoming crossroads for the community.” Operated by the non-profit Artscape, the colourful 60,000-square-foot LEED Silver certified facility is highly versatile and tenant groups worked with the architects to design their studios with their audiences in mind.
Seema Jethalal, Managing Director of Daniels Spectrum, said, “Artscape is extremely pleased to be acknowledged with the Great Places Award. Every day, we see the realization of a dream to build a place where people experience arts, culture and creativity, and we’re thrilled that others are looking to Artscape and Daniels Spectrum as a model for cities and environments of the future.”
Tenants include Native Earth Performing Arts, Regent Park School of Music and COBA Collective of Black Artists. ArtHeart Community Art Centre, Pathways to Education, the Regent Park Film Festival and the Centre for Social Innovation round-out the seven resident groups.
Daniels Spectrum has previously been honored with a Civic Trust Award in 2015, Good Design is Good Business Award from Architectural Record Magazine in 2014, and Best New Venue in Canada for Meetings and Events from the BizBash Event Style Awards in 2013. It is named for The Daniels Corporation, the developer in partnership with Toronto Community Housing Corporation revitalizing the 69-acre post-war public housing community with 5,115 rent-geared-to-income and market rate residential units and amenities.
To view the 6-min. video, The Making of Daniels Spectrum, please click here:
[video=youtube;nPyMioOQElk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPyMioOQElk[/video]
CULTURAL CENTER WINS GREAT PLACES AWARD
Third international award for game-changing facility
TORONTO, May 28, 2015 – Daniels Spectrum, the transformative cultural center at the heart of a regenerated Regent Park community in downtown Toronto, received a Great Places Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles on May 27th as part of the 46th annual conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).
The EDRA Great Places Awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design and pay special attention to the relationship between physical form and human activity or experience.
Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects, Daniels Spectrum provides professional performance, rehearsal, learning and social enterprise space for community-based arts and cultural groups. “It is an honor to be recognized with a Great Places Award,” said Donald Schmitt, Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects. “The design objective was to facilitate interaction among the tenants, students and the public and to make the center a vibrant and welcoming crossroads for the community.” Operated by the non-profit Artscape, the colourful 60,000-square-foot LEED Silver certified facility is highly versatile and tenant groups worked with the architects to design their studios with their audiences in mind.
Seema Jethalal, Managing Director of Daniels Spectrum, said, “Artscape is extremely pleased to be acknowledged with the Great Places Award. Every day, we see the realization of a dream to build a place where people experience arts, culture and creativity, and we’re thrilled that others are looking to Artscape and Daniels Spectrum as a model for cities and environments of the future.”
Tenants include Native Earth Performing Arts, Regent Park School of Music and COBA Collective of Black Artists. ArtHeart Community Art Centre, Pathways to Education, the Regent Park Film Festival and the Centre for Social Innovation round-out the seven resident groups.
Daniels Spectrum has previously been honored with a Civic Trust Award in 2015, Good Design is Good Business Award from Architectural Record Magazine in 2014, and Best New Venue in Canada for Meetings and Events from the BizBash Event Style Awards in 2013. It is named for The Daniels Corporation, the developer in partnership with Toronto Community Housing Corporation revitalizing the 69-acre post-war public housing community with 5,115 rent-geared-to-income and market rate residential units and amenities.
To view the 6-min. video, The Making of Daniels Spectrum, please click here:
[video=youtube;nPyMioOQElk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPyMioOQElk[/video]
rdaner
Senior Member
The communal bake oven at The Big Park in Regent Park. I have to say that the programming here is stellar and attracts people from all over the eastern part of downtown. True community building!
Senior Coconut
New Member
The artist, Dan Bergeron, is selling signed prints. He can also do unsigned custom prints at what ever size you want.
http://fauxreel.ca/shop/
I saw Dan Bergeron's art in person for the first time yesterday night. These really are gorgeous.
I'm not a fan of every piece of art this city has ended up with as a result of the 1% for public art program, but I think the vast majority of works we have ended up with have been quite engaging, and are becoming quite the boon for Toronto. These portraits are really something special.
42
I'm not a fan of every piece of art this city has ended up with as a result of the 1% for public art program, but I think the vast majority of works we have ended up with have been quite engaging, and are becoming quite the boon for Toronto. These portraits are really something special.
42
Attachments
Benito
Senior Member
I love those and I'm still amazed that we got something quite so amazing in a public park.