Downtown Public Sculptures

Two larger than life bronze figures lean over the railing of the Rogers Centre, frozen in a permanent state of anticipation. They are part of Michael Snow’s installation titled The Audience. The sculptures capture two fans with their hands…

The Pasture is a public art installation made of two large, stylized aluminum sheep sculptures resting on the concrete of a downtown plaza. Commissioned in the late nineties, the figures were intended to bring a touch of the rural…

Dreaming is a massive, hollow head crafted from white resin and marble dust that stands twenty-six feet tall. Jaume Plensa shaped it with eyes tightly shut, resting against a bed of light-colored stone. Its translucent surface glows from…

Tembo, Mother of Elephants, stands as a massive bronze sculpture depicting an African elephant and her calf. Derrick S. Hudson spent two years crafting the piece, finishing it in nineteen ninety-seven. The sculpture weighs over three tons…

The Allen Lambert Galleria features a high, vaulted glass ceiling supported by eight steel columns on each side that fan out like the leaves of palm trees. Architect Santiago Calatrava designed this massive atrium to link two towers of the…

Twenty-seven golden dogs sit on a tiered cast-iron fountain in the center of the park. Claude Cormier designed this feature in two thousand seventeen to solve a practical problem. The city needed a vent for the underground sewage pumping…

The Flatiron Mural on the Gooderham Building occupies the narrow, windowless eastern wall that faces inward toward Berczy Park. It uses a technique called trompe l’oeil, which means it is designed to fool the eye. Derek Besant painted the…