Following a landmark inaugural year, the design jury of Winter Stations Competition returns to announce the four winning designs and three student designs that will brighten up Toronto?s wintertime beaches. Competition this year was fierce – with submissions soaring to almost 400 entries from local and international designers.
?Winter Stations 2016 attracted brilliant ideas from around the world and it was agonizing to have to pick only four winners from an amazing field of 380 submissions,? says Lisa Rochon, Winter Stations Design Jury Chair.
Playing upon the typically harsh Ontario winters, this year?s theme – Freeze/Thaw – challenged artists and designers to create a structural response to the changing climactic conditions the cold season brings. The result was four playfully immersive designs that encourage public participation. ?Visitors will discover a feast of textures in the schemes – from vessels clad in charred wood to sailing rope to vintage furs,? adds Rochon. ?Inventive, playful and irreverent, all of the installations can be read like pieces of poetry on the beach.聽?
Founded by RAW Design, Ferris + Associates and Curio, Winter Stations Design Competition’s uses design to inspire Torontonians back outside.
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