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A Historic Tower Prepares for an Artsy New Tenant

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Catching up with a museum on the move

MoCCA reopens next year as the Museum of Contemporary Art_Toronto_Canada on the first five floors of Sterling Road’s Art Deco Tower Automotive Building, lovingly restored by ERA Architects and Peter Clewes of Architects Alliance. These new digs will be a serious step up from the art gallery’s former home on West Queen West. In addition to three floors of exhibition space, the revamped institution will feature a theatre space and a library-like lounge.

Originally published in Issue 3, 2016 as Urban Update: Museum on the Move.

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The Bentway’s playful installation of 50 trees in shopping carts shines a light on climate resilience and green equity

In a city grappling with rising temperatures, accelerated development and increasing inequity in green space accessibility, Moving Forest arrives not as a solution, but as an invitation to rethink our relationship with nature. Designed by NL Architects as a part of The Bentway’s Sun/Shade exhibition, this outlandish yet purposeful installation transforms a fleet of 50 shopping carts into mobile vessels for native trees—red maples, silver maples, sugar maples and autumn blaze—that roll through some of Toronto’s most sun-scorched plazas, creating impromptu oases of shade and community.

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