They actually completed the park with the glass monuments after all this time:
www.theglobeandmail.com

New Toronto park honours a front-line doctor who died in the 1847 typhus epidemic

174 years after George Robert Grasett’s death, a downtown Toronto park is commemorating him and his colleagues – medical professionals who showed up to fight a deadly disease, and sacrificed themselves
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Looks like the realities of construction were not considered in the original design of the piece. I'm sure all those supporting rods/struts were not part of the artist's vision and certainly take away from the overall design in my opinion.
 
North said:
Looks like the realities of construction were not considered in the original design of the piece. I'm sure all those supporting rods/struts were not part of the artist's vision and certainly take away from the overall design in my opinion.
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How do you think the artist intended the glass panels to be supported? (A sky crane?) While I agree that the supporting structure is quite obvious, it is the mark of a good artist to conceptualise his/her works and then ensure that they can actually be realised in the real world while retaining his/her 'vision'. Did that occur here? I will decide when I see it on site.
 
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Yeah, I find a lot of renderings always seem to treat glass as some magical material that is self-supporting and can just magically float in the air. This still looks good IMO, and most people who see it will have never seen the rendering to compare it to.
 
Without commenting on the art...........this is still not a park by any definition I'm willing to accept.

It's a space, outdoors, with an art feature.
 
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TossYourJacket said:
Yeah, I find a lot of renderings always seem to treat glass as some magical material that is self-supporting and can just magically float in the air. This still looks good IMO, and most people who see it will have never seen the rendering to compare it to.
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You can get close - but you have to be willing to pay dearly to achieve that effect (think Apple Store).

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DonValleyRainbow said:
I was going to say call it a parkette and call it a day, but nah, that's a stretch.
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Yes, even a parkette has some greenery. It's a fairly nice piece of art commemorating a person who ought to be commemorated and it is sitting in the middle of the sidewalk at Adelaide and Widmer. (Coincidentally (?) Dr Thomas Widmer was a contemporary of Grasett.).
 
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For my money the most interesting--and conceptually engaging--object in the "park" is the monolithic sign designating the space as a park.
 
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