Wavelengths Sculpture Ceiling in Toronto architect Canadian architecture design images
Wavelengths Sculpture Ceiling
Toronto Architectural Art, Canada design by Paul Raff Studio
Design: Paul Raff Studio
Location: Toronto, Canada
Photos: Ben Rahn/A-Frame
26 Oct 2015
Wavelengths Sculpture Ceiling in Toronto
The sculpture Wavelengths captures the dynamic surface of a lake and transforms a public passage into a phenomenal experience. Wavelengths is suspended overhead in the vehicular and pedestrian passage of Market Wharf condominium, from Market Street to Jarvis Street, south of historic St. Lawrence Market.
Until about ninety years ago, Lake Ontario rolled over the site of Market Wharf. At approximately the level of the ceiling of the new public passageway, the lake’s surface glittered and heaved for many millennia, fascinating with its universally appealing beauty.
Imagine seeing the lake’s surface frozen in static, sculptural form. Imagine walking underneath and experiencing it. Wavelengths provides this experience.
The artwork consists of one hundred and six 6’ x 10’ custom fire-retardant fiberglass panels on a steel frame structure, forming the ceiling of the passageway. The artwork varies in wave patterns from calm and smooth to windy and turbulent. With the dynamic luminosity and form of the lake’s surface, this iconic connection links the present to the past.
Wavelengths transcends the mundane to a rapture of light, colour, and vitality to the passageway.
Wavelengths Sculpture Ceiling in Toronto – Building Information
Area: 500 sqm
Location: Toronto, Canada
Status: Built
Photography: Ben Rahn/A-Frame
Wavelengths Sculpture Ceiling images / information from Paul Raff Studio
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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