Meantime in Greenwich is an innovative public art project by media artist David Clark being officially unveiled Monday, August 6 in Sir Sanford Fleming Park. The project is a nonlinear audio narrative and augmented reality experience presented through a series of interactive sundials distributed throughout the park. Park visitors will be able to download a […]
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Kabul closes down on Barrington Street today
If you were down on Barrington during Nocturne, you may have noticed a video projection of a market scene on the Roy Building that wasn’t listed on your program. Mandaee Bazaar is the work of Scott Saunders and Ariel Nasr, who have brought a new view of a bustling Kabul market to broken-down Barrington. The […]
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Khyber building plan goes to council tonight
At tonight’s city council meeting, HRM staff will present the staff report “1588 Barrington Street as an Arts & Culture Incubator.” This, of course, is the recommendation from staff to council to continue using, and to expand the cultural services offered in the Khyber building, which is seen as a big part of the Barrington […]
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Barrington’s Starfish logos replaced with NSCAD art
UPDATE: I should have known that there were clever people behind this great idea. I heard from Garry Neill Kennedy: “The Starfish windows were filled with images by students in my spring term Printed Matter Class. The idea came from Noah Logan, one of the students in the class and another student Keith McLeod did […]
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Design advocate Jennifer Leonard speaks tonight
I’m really excited to hear what Jennifer Leonard has to say. She is an interdisciplinary project leader at IDEO, a global design agency. She co-wrote Massive Change with Bruce Mau, a book that really made me think differently about the potential of design. Before that, the Haligonian-born Leonard was a journalist, where she worked as […]
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Shortlisted architecture firms: Halifax Central Library
A quick look at the four architectural partnerships shortlisted to build the new Halifax Central Library.
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Barrington Street moves farther from heaven
It seems that even the celestial beings are now abandoning sad old Barrington Street. About six months ago, a large, raw plywood door appeared on the stone wall outside of Grand Parade, in front of the bus stop. Open the latch and there was a wooden triptych of a saint, custom-sized for the space. On […]
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Richard Florida’s Creative Class to help select library design
Richard Florida, who’s like the Bono of urban philosophies, has become synonymous with his Creative Class theory: that cities of the future will only be successful if they attract and retain knowledge-based workers. When he moved to Toronto a couple of years ago, the creative-city-in-training was thrilled by his arrival—our national newspaper even gave him […]
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Gerry Ferguson memorial this weekend
Gerald Ferguson, 11,000 Grapes, enamel on canvas, 54″ x 55. Courtesy of Gallery Page and Strange. Friends, family, students and colleagues of Gerry Ferguson will have a chance to remember the enigmatic artist and professor on Sunday afternoon, 3pm, at NSCAD’s Port Campus. It’s an appropriate location for a memorial: Ferguson, who passed away in […]
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Bloomfield brings in Artscape
On my Nuit Blanche trip to Toronto I visited the amazing Artscape Wychwood Barns, an old streetcar repair barn transformed into a cultural community centre with affordable residential housing and a farmers’ market. The Master Plan for the Bloomfield Centre, which was passed by council in September, follows a similar mixed-use model. Wychwood Barns, best […]
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Think temporary: Installations by Architects exhibition at Dalhousie
There’s a great exhibition in the Dalhousie Architecture and Planning building (main-floor exhibition room, 5410 Spring Garden) that captures the intersection between art and architecture, minus the jargon and usual art-speak. Installations by Architects is a companion show to a book of the same name, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Curated by Dal prof Sarah […]
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Saint Metro of the Transit? Weird public art on Barrington
Apparently those wooden doors, located on the stone wall on Barrington outside of Grand Parade, open up to reveal a tri-panel painting of a saint. Lord knows that street can sometimes use a little divine intervention.