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Sherway Gardens Embraces Equestrian Chic

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Two metallic stallions take fantasy fulfillment to the next level

With its recent reno, CF Sherway Gardens moves ever closer to becoming a real-life dreamland. In the mall’s east wing, two steel stallion sculptures – collectively dubbed The Miracle – look to have galloped in from some magical forest. Artist John McEwen, best known for the torch sculptures in front of the Air Canada Centre, formed the mare and foal by welding thousands of laser-etched steel stars into place atop giant plaster casts.

25 The West Mall  416 621 1070  Mon-Fri 10-9, Sat 9:30-9, Sun 11-6. cfshops.com/sherway-gardens


Part of our feature on four retail environments with dazzling art installations. Originally published in Issue 4 2016 as All that Glitters: Equestrian Chic.

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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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