Across the Spacing Blog Network today we are asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know which work of local public art is your favourite (feel free to name more than one). We want to hear back from our readers on what they like/dislike about our shared public spaces so we plan to run this feature with regularity.
If possible, please provide a link to a photo you are commenting about. We suggest using Flickr as the photographers that use this site usually provide the best quality images (and often with creative commons usage). And if you really want to be helpful you can provide a link to the work’s location on Google Maps (please use a bit.ly or tinyurl.com URL so we don’t get horribly long links that Google provides).
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In Ottawa, definitely Maman. Besides, it’s fun to give visitors directions like “just keep going down this street till you see the giant spider. Turn left at the giant spider.”
We do need a few more like that. Granted that the governmental buildings often serve “navigational landmark” needs well enough, but “giant spider”?
Winner!
I really like Northshore, the rotating tree trunk near one of the Minto buildings on Slater.
The NCC produces a guide to public art every second year, and has started to share the information in a Google Map: http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/places-to-visit/public-art