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From its referential location alongside the Western Gap, entrance the Western Sextant tower signifies the Inner Harbour as being one of Toronto's most important public open spaces. The accessible interior of the Sextant provides the visitor an overview of the surrounding context by reframing selected city views. Additionally, the Sextant tower figuratively counterpoints the grain silos to the west, while more immediately within the heart of the structure a measuring rod registers fluctuations in the lake level below. |
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Across the Inner Harbour directly opposite the Sundial, a Water Clock is to be moored off the island shoreline. Composed of an assembly of vessels that are filled and emptied by lake water on a twelve hour cycle, the Water Clock when built will exist as a public time piece, an amenity that is often associated with a major civil setting such as Toronto's waterfront common - the Inner Harbour. |
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The Sundial folly, located at the foot of York Street in the Western Garden extension of Harbour Square Park, has been conceived in two parts - a composite wall serving to reinforce the installation's edge condition, and a framing device in the form of a hollow sphere bisected to allow sun light in and frame views out to the Toronto Islands. A lake fed circulating pool and cascade located under and adjacent to these two component parts unifies them in to a dynamic whole. The nautically referential Wind Tower located at the Eastern Gap entrance into the Inner Harbour, the most mechanistic of all the four analogue referents, rests on a concrete track aligned along the break wall which defines the western edge of the Eastern Gap. From this location the Wind Tower is positioned to take great advantage of the prevailing winds as well as demarcate the eastern harbour entrance. |