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Lobby Artwork Wows From Near and Far

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A Monumental Blend of Simplicity and Complexity

Installed in the lobby of the KPMB-designed Bay Adelaide Centre’s East Tower, Micah Lexier’s Two Circles sculptures – one black, and the other white and outlined in black – initially impress because of their stark simplicity and monolithic size. But upon closer inspection, the works reveal their true complexity. Each one is made up of thousands of ceramic sticks fabricated by the mosaic pros at Mosaika and snapped into two pieces before being hand-laid into the artwork. The result is a thoughtful reminder that broken and whole can be two sides of the same coin.

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And a win for children in the war against fun

To write about urbanism in Toronto is to live in a constant state of disappointment. It’s not that good things never happen here. It’s just that, too often, our big-ticket urban projects fail to live up to the hype. We get promised a radical new addition to the public realm—a bold initiative to reimagine civic life—and we end up with a condo complex or an outdoor mall. A starchitect gets hired to re-design our most storied museum, and he makes such a hash of things that, fifteen years later, we find ourselves paying to undo his work.

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