February 17, 2015 at 1:45 pm
Installations Worth Checking Out at the Beach (Even in Winter)
A temporary waterfront exhibition gives life to unused lifeguard stations.
By
Kelli Korducki
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Thanks to the Winter Stations design exhibition on the eastern beaches, Torontonians have at least five good reasons to get outside this winter.
The late-season festival has seen the transformation of five seasonally unused lifeguard stations into temporary interactive pieces of art. Despite face-slapping opening-day temperatures around minus-let’s-not-talk-about-it, dozens flocked to check out the shelter-sized installations.
The brainchild of architectural firm Raw Design , the festival features designs by an international cohort of contest winners: HotBox by Torontonians Nicholas Croft and Michaela MacLeod; The Wing Back by American Timothy Olson; Snow Cone by Ryerson students Lily Jeon and Diana Koncan; Driftwood Throne by U.K. designer Daniel Madeiros; and Swing Swing by Ed Butler, Dan Wiltshire, and Frances McGeown, also of the U.K.
Winter Stations, which occupies lifeguard stations between Woodbine and Victoria Park, runs until March 20.