In addition to last year?s King Street Transit Pilot, the City of Toronto launched Everyone is King, a Design Build Competition which provides an opportunity for businesses, design professionals, and the city?s community to reimagine its busy street.
?The intent of the competition was to create a series of attractive curb lane public spaces on King Street for all to enjoy,? states the City of Toronto?s website.
The competition was divided into two streams: temporary public space installations that encourage people to gather and sit; and durable destination parklets with accessible seating areas, or green spaces, placed in the curb lanes.
Out of 96 entries, the City selected 12 winners ? 10 public space installations and two durable destination parklets ? to build new public spaces: STREAM 1 – TEMPORARY PUBLIC SPACE INSTALLATIONS (PSI)
ASPHALT POETRY

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Team: Plant Architect Inc.: Lisa Rapoport, Christopher Pommer, Mary Tremain, Eric Klaver, Patricia Joong in collaboration with Poet Ronna Bloom and Arrow Graphics & Signs Inc.
Rendering of Asphalt Poetry, image courtesy of PLANT Architect via urbantoronto.ca
ASPHALT POETRY is a ground mural and performance collaboration. The poem, The City (by Ronna Bloom), is presented on the ground ? able to be read from the North and the South, at different speeds, words intermingling.
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Team: Urban Minds Urban Minds in collaboration with All Custom Carpentry, RevelHouse Architecture...