Floating greenhouse

The Science Barge greenhouse is a prototype of a sustainable urban farm floating on the Hudson River. The greenhouse grows fresh produce with zero net carbon emissions, zero pesticides, and zero runoff.

Three towers in Toronto

Toronto-born Frank Gehry unveils plans to change the skyline of Toronto.

via designboom

York Quay

Plans for the revitalization of this part of Toronto's Waterfront are underway.

Amon Tobin

The Brazil-born, England-raised and Montreal sometimes-resident electronic musician brought his amazing machine for a second stop in Toronto. And it was indescribable.

The hero of the night, in his space suit.

Brazil in the art spotlight

“The same people who rest in hammocks can, whenever necessary, build a new capital in three years' time.” 

The Brazilian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale brings a homage to Brasilia’s co-architect Lúcio Costa…

…and an homage apparently to soap-opera by architect and movie director Marcio Kogan.

Meanwhile in Brazil, Spanish artist Jaume Plensa erects an enormous head out of the Guanabara Bay, part of art project OIR (Other Ideas for Rio).

Underpass Park

Toronto's Underpass Park is open. An innovative use of dead urban space, the park is
"transforming a derelict space into an neighbourhood amenity." Vast skateboarding grounds, futuristic playground toys and even functional public art!

Simcoe Day

John Graves Simcoe was a British army officer who became the first governor of Canada. And every year Ontario gets a holiday in his name. This Simcoe Day I checked out Fort York, Canada's largest collection of original War of 1812 buildings and 1813 battle site.

In 1813, when the shoreline of Lake Ontario came all the way to where the Gardiner Expressway stands today, Fort York was at an strategic point to defend the British colony and the little town of York, which would one day become Toronto.

American forces attacked and vanquished the fort in 1813, occupying York for a few days, looting and burning the Parliament Building. This was a short but turbulent period in Canadian history, and it wasn’t without its dramatic moments, such as when the retreating British troops exploded 300 barrels of gunpowder they had stored under the fort, hurting hundreds of American soldiers and killing some too. The explosion was heard in Niagara.

Today, Fort York is a relic stuck in the middle of downtown, with an incredible view of the city skyline and an archeological site protected from the construction cranes all around it.

There were also demonstrations of cooking and general life in the Fort.

Ending the day going east like the Loyalists, passing by a very colorful St. Jameson Park.