May 2016 - Toronto ON
Doors Open this year included the Ontario College of Art and Design, OCAD.
Now a Toronto architectural landmark, the iconic Sharp Centre for Design opened in 2004 as part of a major $42.5-million campus redevelopment. The award-winning, black and white “tabletop” structure stands above OCAD University’s main campus building on 12 multi-coloured steel legs. The centre is named after benefactors Rosalie and Isadore Sharp, and is home to OCAD U’s Faculty of Design, with facilities for the Faculties of Art and Liberal Studies. It was designed by acclaimed British architect Will Alsop in partnership with Toronto-based Robbie/Young + Wright Architects Inc., along with structural engineers from Carruthers & Wallace Ltd. and MCW Consultants Ltd. In 2013, architecture critic Christopher Hume named the Sharp Centre one of the “five most influential buildings” in Toronto. 
We were told by one of the guides to walk down from the 4th floor as there was graffiti in the stair wells.
Amazingly colourful!
ReplyDeleteIt works really well for an art college! I didn't get out to any of the Doors Open events this year.
ReplyDeleteThere are some good works there, apart from the tagging. In the second last photo, it looks like English artist Banksy's mouse. He painted one here but the local council accidentally scrubbed it off.
ReplyDeleteGREAT stuff, the first image is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteHappy murals, indeed.
ReplyDeleteI miss Doors Open! Such a great program.
ReplyDeleteInteresting architecture and a great variety of murals. Pity about the tagging.
ReplyDeleteSo art and design inspires more art and design. Perfect. Thanks for contributing to this week's Monday Mural.
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