Alexa Samuels, Founder and Chief of Mercartto, writes about The Bentway’s Constructions of the Everyday art exhibition. Read an excerpt here and the full piece on their blog.
A few weeks after its official launch, The Bentway – Toronto’s newest urban park, under a major downtown highway no less – is thriving.
The Bentway is part of the High Line Network, a series of major projects around North America transforming underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes like parks, public squares, open-air museums, botanical gardens, transit corridors, walkways and more. Torontonians, take pride: of the 19 projects, The Bentway has been one of the fastest projects, a credit to CEO Julian Sleath and his team, and to Judy and Wilmot Matthews, whose financial sponsorship was contingent upon action, decisiveness and cooperation.
