A pricey public art piece that recalls the history of Vancouver’s Hastings Park is slowly creeping toward completion, albeit seven years after it was promised and almost $200,000 over the original $450,000 price tag.
Entitled Home + Away, it’s a 17 metre-high sliver of scaffolding, concrete and metal containing 48 seats overlooking the northwest corner of Empire Fields. The updated cost is $640,000.
In an emailed statement, the City of Vancouver said the “stunning” and “remarkable” artwork should be finished by October of this year. However, the Seattle-based architect-artist team behind the work is more optimistic, aiming to have the final bolt in place by the summer.
“It’s just been this cascading series of stops
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