A wall is being built along Toronto?s east beaches and it?s going to be joined by a bouquet of butterflies, a cavalcade of colours and three other installations as the fifth annual Winter Stations Design Competition announces this year?s winning submissions.
Four designs were selected from hundreds of submissions from around the world by this year’s Winter Stations design jury. Artists, architects and designers were asked to create bold designs at the site of the lifeguard stations that are dotted along the beach-front. Each winning submission celebrates Toronto?s winter waterfront landscape and aims to draw people outside to interact with installations, the winter and each other. The four winning designs will be joined by two student installations from Sheridan College and Humber College. Ice Breakers exhibition returning with five new installations

The theme for Winter Stations? fifth anniversary is Migration. Designers were asked to explore all facets of migration, including the complex social issues that surround humanity?s shaping of our global society, the flight of animals and the exchange of ideas.
?It brings our team immense pride that Winter Stations is heading into its fifth year,? said Winter Stations co-founder, Roland Rom Colthoff, RAW Design. “It’s a testament to the appetite for design in this city, as well as to the efforts of our sponsors who step up each year to fund the exhibition. We wanted this year’s theme to continue explorin...