Woodsy Park, a new City of Toronto park at Concord Park Place, is nearing completion and anticipated to open in Spring 2019. Designed by DTAH, the park will provide a wide range of welcoming, engaging, and beautiful outdoor spaces for the community. Scattered across the park are several public art pieces, selected through an international invitational competition which was juried by a combination of artists, art experts, local representatives, and Concord. This resulted in the awarding of several public art commissions and a fabrication process overseen by Public Art Management Ltd.
The Woodsy Park Pavilion features artwork by Studio Kimiis called “Droplet”. The work consists of wall coverings on the pavilion, an extending canopy, a snow wall and seating. Steven Beites, principal of Studio Kimiis, declares in his artist's statement that the work will "form a varied yet uniform waterscape across the pavilion. It pays tribute to the area’s most distinguishing feature: the ravine system, and the community activities in and around the pavilion. The work highlights the important connection with the site’s history and its natural setting, and its role in shaping both the physical and social fabrics of the region." The pavilion was designed in collaboration with DTAH and Spring Valley Corp of Ancaster, Ontario to create a series of ultra high-performance concrete panels across the exterior (CAAST). The panels were created by using a proprietary ultra-high performance concrete mixture and titanium dioxide to achieve the brilliant white finish.