Bay street's getting a new fresco next week thanks to Lanterra's
taste in public art.
The developer's using its
one per cent—the portion of the building costs the city obliges they put aside for public art—for a series of large pieces by Italian artist
Sandro Martini.
"We've always sold or projects not just on the units themselves but on the amenities space around it," says Lanterra CEO Barry Fenton.
The glass works, the largest of which is about 150 feet by 100 feet, will occupy a 3,500-square-foot, 50-foot-high retail space in a sort of glass box at street level on the north side of the already colourful Burano condo tower on the east side of the street. Though there's no tenant yet, Fenton figures it'll be a coffee shop or restaurant.
Fenton estimates the cost of the works to be between $500,000 and $600,000. The commission resulted from a public competition Lanterra held in Italy.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Barry Fenton
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