SEAN EATON

Agency-Agency is an award-winning architectural design studio directed by Tei Carpenter that pursues a better world through the transformative potentials of design. Based in New York City, the studio specializes in cultural, residential, civic, and public projects engaging design at multiple scales including environments, infrastructure, buildings, exhibitions, and furniture... Staging Grounds creates a dynamic 20,000sf public space that offers the city of Toronto a new type of public infrastructure that is a space for active learning, an urban stage, and a site for environmental regeneration. Bringing attention to an otherwise vacant space underneath the Gardiner Expressway, Staging Grounds is a multidimensional infrastructure that is a living laboratory for urban ecology, with experimental gardens that use rainwater run-off from the highway above to support the growth of native plant species, while passive water filtration and retention help to reduce the risk of local flooding. The..

Primary location: New York United States