One Spadina Eyeball
BY Shawn Micallef
June 30, 2009 21:06
One Spadina Crescent is the bubble that makes Spadina (the road) interesting. Without this building — formerly known as Knox College and built in 1875 — sitting in the middle of the street, the Spadina streetcars wouldn’t make their wild and graceful arcs around it. One Spadina also gives our eyes somewhere to rest when scanning the urban horizon and is also a resting spot for eyeballs themselves, as it houses the Ontario Eye Bank. Look for the “Pole Colonnade” public art piece by Stephen Cruise on top of the streetcar poles just to the north at Willcocks Street where the “Bottle/Mold” refers, in part, to the period when the Connaught Laboratories produced penicillin at Knox College.
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