Location: Shops at Don Mills
Date photo taken: 14 July 2019
This clock tower, situated in the Town Square at the Shops at Don Mills, pays homage to the distinctive style of housing and the explosive pace of suburban development that characterized Toronto in the 1950s and 60s. What I love most about this Douglas Coupland piece isn't the piece itself, but one reaction to it that I found online. To sum up, "Wrong, wrong, wrong." On her Don Mills blog, Jane points out that while the house forms incorporated in the sculpture are similar in style to the homes built in Don Mills, "they Ain't. Don. Mills. Houses." Don Mills is unique in that it was Canada's first planned community and part of what makes it special is that the house plans were designed by select architects to suit the area. Those in Coupland's sculpture were based on blueprints generated by the government and supplied through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. I love both the attention to detail that Coupland showed in the creation of the work, and the knowledge and passion exhibited by Jane in pointing out the historical inaccuracy.
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