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Brighter Days Ahead at The Oculus, Toronto
6 Jan 2021
Brighter Days Ahead at The Oculus
Design: Giaimo
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

photo © Giaimo
In Fall 2020 Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO) and Giaimo revealed a new temporary public art installation, Brighter Days Ahead, at The Oculus Pavilion in Toronto as part of a revitalization initiative. Designed by Toronto architecture firm Giaimo, and sponsored by Creative Silhouettes Inc., Brighter Days Ahead is made of radiating yellow stripes that represent sun rays shining through the pavilion and also reference the vibrant future planned for this derelict modernist structure. Located in the City of Toronto?s South Humber Park along the Humber River Recreational Trail, the art installation will be up for the next few months until the restoration of the pavilion takes place in 2021.
photo © Doublespace Photography
Designed in 1958 by architect Alan Crossley and consulting engineer Laurence Cazaly, built in 1959, South Humber Park Pavilion AKA The Oculus is a fantastical space-age park shelter. While it stands out as a unique modernist structure in Toronto, The Oculus? sculptural quality and use of concrete is part of a generation of ambitious and optimistic public pavilions built in the late 1950?s and early 1960?s that can be found scattered throughout the City?s parks system. However, over the last few decades the pavilion h...