Regent Park Utility Hole Cover

Location: Regent Park

Date photo taken: 25 October 2012

Back in October 2012 this blog featured as its first post a sanitary sewer cover designed for the then-new Regent Park redevelopment. Almost 600 designs were received as part of a design competition held by Toronto Culture from which three winners were chosen. This cover, designed by DeMuth Flake, was the winner for the storm cover design.

For a look at some other manhole covers from around the world, check out the collection of images on Wikimedia Commons.

Regent Park Sewer Cover

Location: Regent Street, north of Dundas
Date photo taken: 25 October 2012

How often do you look at the ground below your feet? Sometimes there's some pretty interesting stuff down there. Like this manhole cover, located in the middle of Regent Street in the newly developed Regent Park neighbourhood. Turns out, they're all over the streets there. Thank you Toronto Culture. In a project called Grounds for Art, they invited Torontonians to submit designs for the three types of utility hole covers that are needed on our streets: sanitary, storm sewer and water valve. This is the winning design for the sanitary covers, designed by Xin Xu.