Images Toronto: More Cityscapes
Images Toronto continues where Toronto Cityscapes left off, providing more pictures of Toronto, old and new, familiar and perhaps unfamiliar. This is Old City Hall's clock tower, backed by a modern downtown tower, on a hazy, wintry afternoon as the lights are just coming on. One of the things I like about Toronto is that many of its new buildings are exceptionally good to look at. Other cities I visit don't seem to have the same elegance when it comes to modern buildings, too many up-ended shoe boxes.
The thick bands across the top of the building are the retractable roof that allows open-air play on good days and dry indoor weather on bad days.
Roy Thompson Hall is the home of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. This view from the
CN Tower
shows perfectly its unusual bell-shape. A bell without a top or clanger, of course.
This ivy covered steeple, the grounds, and the church hall are all that's left of St. George the Martyr church in Toronto. It burned down, years ago, and now stands as a picturesque, elegant ruin just off University Avenue.
The lamp post in the foreground looks very 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' style.
If you've ever thought artists and designers never got beyond crayon at school, you're not alone. The architect for the Ontario Centre for Art and Design had some fun with this box with pencils, or are they crayons, spilling out from it. It's one of those fun buildings that either works for you or it doesn't.
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The Skydome is Toronto's premier stadium for sports that can't tolerate bad weather, like baseball.
