Plant Architect Inc.

Face to Face | Tête à Tête

Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography

FACE TO FACE | TÊTE À TÊTE

PLANT Architect Inc.

PHOTOS
Steven Evans Photography (11)

CREDITS
Oriole Landscape - Contractor

BUDGET
$10K - 50K

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Toronto, Canada

CATEGORY
Landscape + Planning › Public Park Urban Green Space

Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography

Face to Face/Tête à Tête creates a place for shared conversation along 44 feet of roadway. With two unexpectedly long tables (13 and 16 feet), flanked by continuous benches and wrapped with planting, this is a place for concentrated community conversation, animated inside the words Face to Face/Tête à Tête dynamically projected over all of the surfaces – bench, planters, tables, and deck.

Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography
Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography

With only six feet of width overall, the narrow striking blue and orange room promotes both intimacy within the bustle of King St., and deliberately intensifies the conversation.

Shaped like boomerangs, one table angles toward the street, and one toward the sidewalk, subtly inviting participants to the table angled to watch the passers-by on the sidewalk, or to hail to those on bike and streetcar.

Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography
Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography

The table is a central focus recalling big family dinners – promoting larger collective/community gathering, yet the narrowness allows for individual occupation, co-working, musing, lunching, and dreaming.


Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography
Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography
Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography
Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography
Face to Face | Tête à Tête
© Steven Evans Photography

Plant Architect Inc.
T +1 416 9792012
Plant Architect Inc.
317 Adelaide St W, Toronto, ON M5V 1P9, Canada