![]() We are happy to celebrate this exciting project milestone with you, and we thank you for your continued patience in navigating the project area during construction. Final landscaping and the installation of a public art component will occur in 2020. Construction will continue on the project through to the end of the 2019 summer construction season, including removal of the temporary detour road, completing the reconstruction of the north side of the Waverley and Taylor intersection, completing the twinning of Taylor Avenue, and landscaping. Update August 19, 2019:Īfter this past weekend's full closure of the project site to vehicles, today traffic was successfully transitioned under the new underpass for the first time. A preview of the art installation is available in the Documents section of the project webpage. OUTCROPPINGS conceives of the history of southern Manitoba through physical strata a continuation of the story of the continual movement and changing of the land.Ĭommissioned and managed through the Winnipeg Arts Council's Public Art Program, this work was funded through the Waverley Underpass Project with extra support from Councillor John Orlikow through the Land Dedication Reserve Fund and will become a part of the City’s robust collection of public artwork. This land is home to First Nations, Métis, and settler populations and has been transformed through an ever-changing landscape of Precambrian rock, glaciers, tall grass prairie, farmland, urban growth, and now a roadway leading to many places. This land, like the people who have travelled and lived on it, has experienced diversity in its people and foundation. The artwork is intended to be experienced as a discovery an outcropping of a new type of mineral, emerging from the land, elemental in geometry, with a shape like a mythical Ordovician clam, whose existence 445 million years ago left the unique fossil impressions we see in locally-sourced Tyndall stone today. The series of sculptural outcroppings will be installed in the summer of 2020 along the sloped greenspace to the south of the new underpass and east of the Active Transportation pathway, acting as a gateway between the neighbourhoods of River Heights and Linden Woods. ![]() OUTCROPPINGS is an aluminum landscape sculpture by artist Jyhling Lee, who was inspired by the region’s geologic and cultural history to create projective sculptural forms as an acknowledgement of the mineral abundance and heritage of this land. The Winnipeg Arts Council announced OUTCROPPINGS, a new public artwork being created as part of the Waverley Underpass Project. This is the final Construction Update for this project. We would like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding during construction. Short term lane and sidewalk closures may be required for access. Final landscaping will occur in the spring and early summer of 2020, along with the installation of a public artwork. ![]() All traffic lanes, sidewalks, and bike paths are now open. We are excited to announce that as of November 2019, the project is essentially complete.
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