Taking his cue from Mackenzie King's Kingsmere, Stephen Braithwaite used pieces of demolished Ottawa buildings (along with some new bronze sculptures) to create "Strathcona's Folly," a sculpture/play structure in Ottawa's Strathcona Park.
The somewhat unsettling looking faces are from a Bank of Montreal branch.
What a brilliant thing for kids to climb on. So much more imagination-sparking than tubes in primary colours.
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