{"id":599897,"date":"2026-03-10T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/?p=599897"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:41:22","slug":"winter-stations-5-lifeguard-towers-transformed-into-works-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/winter-stations-5-lifeguard-towers-transformed-into-works-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Lifeguard Towers Transformed into Works of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Woodbine Beach it&#8217;s a bright, blisteringly windy day. Toronto is a maze of slushy pathways and salted sidewalks, but from this sandy boardwalk, <strong>Winter Stations<\/strong> emerges as a bright beacon of <a href=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/discorectangle-turns-abstract-geometry-into-color-drenched-rugs\/\">color<\/a>, community and design talent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_599903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599903 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-2-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Stations, Embrace rainbow hand scultpure\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-2-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-2-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-2-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-2-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Celebrating its 12th anniversary this year, the Winter Stations <a href=\"https:\/\/winterstations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international design competition <\/a>invites artists, architects and designers to re-imagine an unusual typology, lifeguard stations, and transform them into dynamic works of public art. Set against the backdrop of Lake Ontario, the five winning proposals are then built, and remain on display for a 6-week exhibition that is free and open to all, attracting curious Torontonians from around the city. Today is no different: a constant stream of dog-walkers, young families, bundled toddlers, assistant editors (me) and beach-goers marvel at the eye-grabbing installations.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme, <em>Mirage<\/em>, challenges entrants to explore the edges of reality, asking: what do we long to see? In the age of AI and digital echo chambers, where is the line between what is seen and what is real? Selected by a blind jury of leading art, design, architecture, and urbanism experts, the winning projects tap into this theme from a range of thoughtful angles and engaging materialities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_599904\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599904 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-1-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Stations, Embrace rainbow hand scultpure\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-1-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-1-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-1-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/EMBRACE-Storm-1-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Embrace<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Two giant hands of thin, blackened wood emerging from the sand are already an unusual sight, but moving in closer reveals their rainbow-striped palms. Designed by Saskatoon-based art director and 3D artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willcuthbert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Cuthbert<\/a>, Embrace is an invitation to discover a new reality, to change your perspective and to be cocooned by the hands. And the people love it: hands reach out to touch, mirroring their giant neighbors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_599909\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599909 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Hero-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Crest art installation, wood\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Hero-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Hero-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Hero-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Hero-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_599910\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599910 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Community-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Person sits inside Crest art installation on Woodbine beach, Toronto\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Community-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Community-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Community-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CREST-Community-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Crest<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Like the choppy water of Lake Ontario only a few steps away, Crest evokes a sweeping wave before it breaks offering onlookers a moment of pause within its enveloping form. Inside, the waffled plywood pattern\u2014meant to look like driftwood from afar\u2014dissapears and reappears based on the angle. And in the afternoon sun, Crest\u2019s curving form produces a matching shadow of geometric lines on the sand. Designed by a band of talented students from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering, the team includes Clay te Bokkel, Isabella Ieraci, Matthew Lam, Sasha Rao, Simon Huang, Oskar Peng, David Shen and Professor Fiona Lim Tung.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_599911\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599911 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Hero-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Specularia, art installation, woodbine beach\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Hero-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Hero-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Hero-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Hero-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_599912\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599912 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Community-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Specularia, art installation, woodbine beach\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Community-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Community-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Community-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/SPECULARIA-Community-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Specularia\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Designed by Maine-based interdisciplinary designer Andrew Clark of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tornado.soup\/?hl=en\">TORNADO SOUP<\/a>, this interactive installation invites visitors to walk through a gauzy-curtained corridor and look through five framed openings to the lake. Each window offers a different perspective: one frames the lifeguard tower, one reveals the sky above, another reflects your own face back at you. Dubbed Specularia, the installation\u2014built with MicroPro Sienna treated lumber\u2014blends reality with dreamy portals untethered from context.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_599913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599913 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Glaciate art installation, snowy Woodbine beach in Toronto\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_599914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599914 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-Detail-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Glaciate art installation, snowy Woodbine beach in Toronto\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-Detail-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-Detail-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-Detail-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/GLACIATE-Storm-Detail-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Glaciate<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A small maze of vertical polycarbonate panels filled with water from the nearby lake, Glaciate\u2019s frosted walls offer an ever-changing optical illusion as the water freezes and warms. These shifting forms\u2014opaque, translucent, \u00a0or transparent\u2014blur the outsider\u2019s view of a central lifeguard tower in vibrant red while also clouding the insider\u2019s view to the beach. Designed by a group from Toronto Metropolitan University Department of Architectural Science in collaboration with Ming Chuan University School of Design comprising Finn Ferrall, Nicholas Kisil, Marko Sikic, with faculty supervisor Yew-Thong Leong and Vincent Hui, Glaciate makes being on the beach feel a little like being inside a rain-filled cloud.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_599915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599915 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Storm-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Chimera, mirror art installation on winter beach in snowstorm\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Storm-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Storm-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Storm-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Storm-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_599916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-599916 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Beachscape-1-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Chimera, mirror art installation on winter beach in snowstorm\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Beachscape-1-1280x900-1-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Beachscape-1-1280x900-1-810x570.jpg 810w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Beachscape-1-1280x900-1-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/design-milk.com\/images\/2026\/03\/CHIMERA-Beachscape-1-1280x900-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joel Gale<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Chimera<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Completely enveloping the lifeguard tower with circular mirrors, Chimera confronts viewers with echoing versions of themselves. Designed by Denys Horodnyak and Enzo Zak Lux of shared Berlin-based creative practice, the installation speaks to the fragmentation of physical and digital realities\u2014and the lack of control individuals may have over the self. Created in partnership with the Mechanical Contractors Association of Ontario, the duo tapped pipe welder and metal artist Courtney Chard to fabricate the design from her Georgetown studio.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss your chance to see these stunning installations in person! For more details, visit their website <a href=\"https:\/\/winterstations.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the windy shore of Lake Ontario, the winners of Winter Stations 2026 wow with curving wood, mirrors and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":599908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[15870,37042,41475,40861,31423,41391],"internal_flag":[],"class_list":["post-599897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-main","tag-art-installation","tag-design-competition","tag-outdoor-art","tag-outdoor-art-installation","tag-public-art","tag-public-art-installation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Winter Stations: 5 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