Competition Panels Submitted to the Jury

" The 2 -stage, national Water-front Public Art Competition fot Toronto's Inner Harbour was won in January by t-Zero Design, a team of Jonathan Fung and Paul DeFigueiredo. As required by the competition brief, t-Zero's scheme comprises a structure to be built in the western garden of Harbour Square Park, at the foot of York Street, and ideas for the rest of the harbour area. For the park a sundial is proposed, comprising of a concrete sphere, set in a cut in a quay just west of the ferry terminals. Water from the lake, changing in levels and conditions with the seasons, enters the sphere from below. A vertical slot in the sphere lets in the sun, tracing its path on the inner shell. Brushing the sphere is a 25-meter Wall, a three dimensional screen whose metals will rust, something like "a ships side." Some members of the jury (architect Donald Schmitt was jury chair) saw the scheme as "a monument almost 19th century it its scale," while others characterised is as world fair architecture. For the future "ideas," a Water Clock is proposed for off-shore at Centre Island, a Sextant observation Tower by the western channel, and a wind tower on the eastern channel on Ward's Island that will sit on a track, and as it is moved by the winds will trace patterns in the sand below."


The Canadian Architect
March 1994