DesignTO 2025 at Yonge + St. Clair

For 10 days from January 24 – Feb 2, 2025 Toronto will be buzzing with energy and innovation. The DesignTO Festival celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making. People come to explore, learn, and get inspired through architectural tours, craft and design exhibitions, window installations, thought-provoking talks, and other unique experiences.

The Yonge + St. Clair BIA is a proud sponsor of the Festival, and will host 7 large-scale art installations in various highrise office lobbies and multiple guided walking tours across the neighbourhood, including one led by the artists. Installations include original and sponsored works designed and constructed by locally-based artists.

A special thanks to our site sponsors who have invested additional resources to ensure these art installations are larger than life: JLL, ChoiceREIT, Desjardins.

Use the map below to find all the festival programming, and click the links below for more information.

 

INSTALLATIONS

1 – ‘The Archivist’ by Pixel Heller (📍 2-22 St. Clair E)

2 – ‘Narcissus Falls’ by Land Art Design (📍 2 St. Clair W)

3 – Yes, And by Gensler (📍 30 St. Clair W)

4 – Tangled Paths by Nargiza Usmanova, NUMZ Graphics (📍 40 St. Clair W)

5 – Bubble Quilt by Studio Rat (📍 55 St. Clair W)

6 – ‘Homing (Pigeon Store)’ by Maddy Young, and MCA Gallery (📍 95 St. Clair W)

7 – ‘Beyond the Body’ by Pixel Heller, and MCA Gallery (📍 95 St. Clair W)

SIGN UP FOR FREE: GUIDED WALKING TOURS

8 – DesignTO Tours: Dualities  This walking tour invites you to take a closer look at three temporary artworks with firsthand insight from the artists and designers behind the projects, delve deeper into the site-specific installations, their stories, and how they came to be.

📅 Sunday February 2, 2025 2:00pm – 3:00pm, starting at 2 St. Clair West. 🎟️ RSVP Here.

9 – Yonge + St. Clair Guided Walking Tours This series of four (4), 45-minute long walking tours are expertly led by urbanism expert + published author Lloyd Alter. Each tour will take groups to 3 art installations while also providing deeper insight into the architectural and historical elements of Yonge + St. Clair.

When you sign up to attend a tour you will automatically be entered for a chance to win A DINNER FOR 2 AT ONE OF OUR LOCAL RESTAURANTS. Applicants must complete a sign up form and attend a tour to be eligible.

Please note that these tours will include indoors and outdoors routes, dress accordingly for the winter weather. 

Sign up for your preferred tour dates below:

📅 Tour 1: Saturday, January 25th 2-3 p.m. RSVP and Tour Details Here.

📅 Tour 2: Sunday, January 26th, 2-3 p.m. RSVP and Tour Details Here.

📅 Tour 3: Tuesday, January 28th, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. RSVP and Tour Details Here.

📅 Tour 4: Thursday, January 30th, 2-3 p.m. RSVP and Tour Details Here.

SNEAK PEEK: BEHIND THE SCENES 

Many of the artworks hosted at Yonge + St. Clair are all-new and original pieces that are being unveiled for the first time on January 24th. To keep your interest piqued, some of the artists have generously documented and shared images of their behind-the-scenes work below!

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors and Collaborators

 

 

 

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