New Visual Arts Display At King Street TTC

The display features large watercolour and pen architectural renderings, one 3-D architectural model and a variety of comic-style pen sketches of buildings in Toronto.

For this assignment, students were asked to research two architectural styles. Then they went to the Doors Open Toronto website and found examples of buildings in Toronto that appear to be influenced by one of the two styles. After making some comic-style sketches of these buildings, students used Google Maps to find an empty area in Toronto on which they would like to put a building.

Using the street level function, students "walked" around the neighbourhood and compiled a list of considerations they would need to make when designing a building for that neighbourhood. (Prior to this, they watched short videos on the CBC Archives website about the planning of the Eaton Centre, the National Gallery and Habitat '67 in Montreal.

Once deciding on a location, students chose a purpose for their building and began designing. The drawings were finished in pen, and watercolours were added to complete the rendering.

This display will be on until mid-April, so be sure to check it out!

The students involved are Carly Albright '12, Clarice Baksi '12 (3-D model), Montana Kimel '12, Anna Lailey '12, Tessa Thomson '12, Zach Warne '12, Ali Abbott '12, Alexa Hardy '12, Julia Higgins '12, Hugh Kidd '12, Sophia Puccetti '12, Sam Sutcliffe '12, Torin Offord '13, Keisha Aitchison '13, Hannah Dawson '13 and Ani Dime '13.