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The Bata Shoe Museum, in Toronto, Canada, is a place dedicated to the history of footwear. It was established in 1995 by the Bata family under the Bata Shoe Museum Foundation. Much of the collection was donated from the private collections of Mrs Sonja Bata, chair of the Foundation and co-founder of Bata Shoes. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (951x603, 86 KB)Taken by SimonP in April 2005 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (951x603, 86 KB)Taken by SimonP in April 2005 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Motto: Diversity Our Strength Map of Ontario Counties, Toronto being red Area: 641 sq. ...
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Bata Shoes is the worlds largest shoe company. ...
Building Designed by Raymond Moriyama, and completed in 1991, the structure sits on a prominent corner of Bloor and St. George Streets. Its form is derived from the idea of the museum as a container. Taking this further, and associating it more with shoes, Moriama stated the building is meant to evoke an opening shoe box, realised in a somewhat deconstructivist form with its canted walls and copper clad roof offset from the walls of the building below in an interesting play of volume and void. The main facade (north) along Bloor St. pinches inward to where the entrance, in the form of a glass shard, emerges, creating a more generous forecourt. This glass protrusion is one end of a multi-level 'cut' through the building which contains the main vertical circulation, providing a clear view through the building to the three story faceted glass wall, designed by Lutz Haufschild, on the south facade. The entire stone volume appears to float above a ribbon of glass display windows on the street level, and its vast expanses of limestone are used as backdrops for banners advertising exhibitions within. Raymond Moriyama (b. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ...
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In architecture a forecourt is an open area in front of a structures entrance. ...
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The building consists of three stories above ground, and two below ground levels, throughout which are dispersed galleries, a resource lab, restoration facilities, a gift shop, offices, and storage. Typical of most museums the gallery spaces are neutral in design, allowing focus on the creative displays, not the building itself. However, cast bronze and leather, traditional materials used in the creation of shoes, are used in signage throughout the museum.
Raymond Moriyama said of the edifice: "Architecture is never the creation of the architect alone. The museum's architecture should be seen as a celebration not only of shoes but also of the wonderful vision that brought them into the public eye."
Publicity The Bata Shoe Museum was featured in an episode of The Amazing Race: Family Edition, where the contestants were in Toronto. Teams had to choose a pair of shoes, and search through 100 women for the one woman who fit the selected pair. The Amazing Race 8 (titled The Amazing Race: Family Edition) was the eighth installment of the popular reality television show, The Amazing Race. ...
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