Winter Stations officially opens with Family Day ceremony on Woodbine Beach
Despite the cold and frozen landscape on Woodbine Beach, the installation this year’s Winter Stations exhibits has gone smoothly.
Neighbours are invited to join the winners of the 2026 contest on Family Day (Monday, Feb. 16) for the official launch of Winter Stations for 2026.
Opening remarks will begin at 10:45 am, followed by a walking tour of the designs presented by the artists at 11 a.m..
Beaches-East York MPP Mary-Margaret McMahon will be among the guests at the opening ceremonies on Family Day. McMahon was a key part of getting Winter Stations started back in 2015 when she was a the city councillor for Beaches-East York. City of Toronto’s Chief Planner Jason Thorne and Public Art Officer Katriina Campitelli will also be speaking at the opening ceremonies.
Winter Stations is presented by RAW Design, kg&a, Northcrest Developments, the City of Toronto, Mechanical Contractors Association of Ontario, Ontario Association of Architects, MicroPro Sienna, Feeley Group, Sali Tabacchi Brand & Design, and Meevo Digital.
This winning designs are Embrace – (Will Cuthbert; Canada), Crest – (Clay te Bokkel, Isabella Ieraci, Matthew Lam, Sasha Rao, Simon Huang, Oskar Peng, and David Shen; University of Waterloo), Specularia – (TORNADO SOUP: Andrew Clark; United States), CHIMERA – (Denys Horodnyak; Ukraine, and Enzo Zak Luz; Germany), and Glaciate – (Finn Ferrall, Nicholas Kisil, Marko Sikic, and faculty supervisor Vincent Hui; Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Architectural Science, in collaboration with Ming Chan University; Taiwan).
Though the weather is warmer than it has been lately, it’s still cold and icy by the lake, so dress appropriately for the Winter Stations celebrations on Family Day.
