{"id":8132,"date":"2014-02-03T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2014-04-15T19:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:26:28","slug":"canopy-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/canopy-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Canopy, Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/canopy02.jpg\" alt=\"canopy02\" width=\"814\" height=\"543\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8133\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\nInspired by the experience of walking through a forest\u2019s dappled light, Canopy is a 90-meter long light sculpture spanning the front facade of the Maple Leaf Square building in Toronto, Canada.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis permanent architectural installation is made of thousands of identical modules, organised in a non-repeating growth pattern. Their form, abstracted from the geometry of leaves, reflect nature. A combination of daylight and artificial light sweeping through the work recalls the activity of cells within a leaf, leaves in a forest canopy, or a city seen from the air.<br><br>\r\n\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/uva_mls_1106.jpg\" alt=\"uva_mls_1106\" width=\"814\" height=\"543\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8135\" \/>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/16993767?portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"588\" height=\"331\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nCredits:<br>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.co.uk\/work\/canopy#\/7\">UVA<\/a> &#8211; United Visual Artists<br>\r\nCommissioned by Cadillac Fairview, Lanterra Developments &#038; Maple Leaf Sports<br>\r\n\r\nPublic Art Consultants: Public Art Management (Karen Mills and Justin Ridgeway)<br>\r\n\r\nManufacturer and Installer: Soheil Mosun Limited<br>\r\n\r\nLED Technology: Saco LSI <br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired by the experience of walking through a forest\u2019s dappled light, Canopy is a 90-meter long light sculpture spanning the front facade of the Maple Leaf Square building in Toronto, Canada.","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}