03 Friday May 2019
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canada, heritage, history, Ontario, photography, photowalk, preservation, rail, railway, random, Toronto, train, train station, trains, Travel, urban
This stately building on Yonge Street in Toronto used to be home to North Toronto railway station. I had to look up this building in Google to verify its history … but its proximity to train tracks and the lovely clock tower pretty much gave away its heritage. It is currently a (very beautiful) liquor store.
30 Saturday Mar 2019
Posted in architecture, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Toronto, Travel, urban
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airport, architecture, canada, design, Ontario, photography, photowalk, random, Toronto, transportation, Travel, urban
A view from the departures level at Toronto Pearson International Airport, snapped a few weeks ago.
28 Thursday Mar 2019
Posted in architecture, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, San Francisco, Travel, urban
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airport, architecture, california, design, photography, photowalk, random, san francisco, SFO, terminal, Travel, U.S.A., United States, urban
From my trip to San Francisco in December: There’s something I find aesthetically pleasing about how the angles of the building materials interact in this airport terminal. The variable sizes of the holes in the metal grilles add a little something too.
27 Wednesday Mar 2019
Posted in architecture, photography, photowalk, photowalking, planning, random, Toronto, Travel, urban
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architecture, canada, Ontario, photography, photowalk, random, Toronto, Travel, urban, urban planning
Characteristic historic brick low-rise buildings line Yonge Street in downtown Toronto … but there are slowly giving way to high-rises springing up on either side of the artery.
06 Wednesday Feb 2019
Posted in architecture, Las Vegas, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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architecture, Las Vegas, Nevada, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, U.S.A., United States, urban
A neat design feature outside a building in Las Vegas, Nevada.
04 Monday Feb 2019
Posted in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, architecture, calgary, canada, history, photowalk, preservation, random, urban
This is the last photo I took of the little yellow house once belonging to Enoch Sales.
The building in Calgary’s Victoria Park neighbourhood, long in a state of disrepair, was the last remaining Queen Anne Revival-style home in the city. It had been slated to be part of an area revitalization project called the Rivers District.
The building burned in a two-alarm fire on Feb. 2, 2019, and was subsequently demolished.
05 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in architecture, photography, photowalk, photowalking, San Francisco, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
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california, light rail, LRT, LRV, photography, photowalk, san francisco, Siemens, trains, transit, transportation, Travel, U.S.A., United States, urban
Riding in one of San Francisco’s newest light-rail vehicles while on vacation there, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of familiarity.
San Francisco’s Muni LRVs are made by Siemens and, despite differences in door and seating configuration, are in fact the same high-floor model as the newest light-rail cars purchased by Calgary Transit. The similarities are definitely there, from the whine of the motors to the station announcement chime … and even the malfunctioning passenger information system. (Calgary Transit’s CTrain displays work but sometimes show the wrong time or station information; Muni’s displays were simply off when I rode their light-rail trains.)
The photo above shows a Muni light-rail Metro train operating on the N line, departing from Ocean Beach.
13 Thursday Dec 2018
Posted in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
07 Friday Dec 2018
Posted in architecture, photography, photowalk, photowalking, Portland, random, Travel, urban
16 Friday Nov 2018
Posted in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
A peek inside the new Central Library in downtown Calgary. It was still so very crowded last weekend … hoping for things to quiet down so I can snap a few more photos without getting in the way. (And get a closer look at the books/maps/documents, of course.)
