StairSpace / Department of Unusual Certainties

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Department of Unusual Certainties is a Toronto-based research and design collective working at the interstices of urban design, planning, public art, spatial research and mapping have shared with us their contribution to the John Street Ideas Competition, held by the Toronto Entertainment District BIA, entitled StairSpace. The competition called for a new public space concept as the center point of what has been dubbed a major cultural axis in the Toronto – John Street. More details of DoUC’s submission after the break.

The current space is bland and oppressive, wedged beside the monolithic cartoonishness of an aggressively post-modern Metro Hall. The space is large but feels small, needlessly cluttered and obstructed by two follies and a raised concrete planter.

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Cite: Hank Jarz. "StairSpace / Department of Unusual Certainties" 26 Nov 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/91562/stairspace-department-of-unusual-certainties> ISSN 0719-8884

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