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A century well built

15 Monday Feb 2021

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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A Century Well Built

Many decades of development is visible in this slice of Calgary’s downtown skyline.

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Curvature

21 Saturday Sep 2019

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Curvature, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Looking up while standing on the east steps leading to the main entrance of the Calgary Central Library.

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More than books

03 Saturday Aug 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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More than books, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A view of the southwest corner — if you can call it that — of Calgary’s Central Library.

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Feeling bottled up

16 Tuesday Jul 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Feeling bottled up

Stool seating designed to look like bottle caps, spotted in one of the eateries in Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood.

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Ready to fly

30 Saturday Mar 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Toronto, Travel, urban

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Toronto, Ontario,Canada

A view from the departures level at Toronto Pearson International Airport, snapped a few weeks ago.

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SFO: Gate 68

28 Thursday Mar 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, San Francisco, Travel, urban

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SFO, San Francisco, California

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.

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Foyer

16 Friday Nov 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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.)

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15 feet up

17 Monday Sep 2018

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I love the logo for Calgary’s Plus 15 pedestrian walkway system.

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Colourful features

28 Saturday Jul 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, design, London, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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London, England, U.K.

Here’s an office tower with a very funky frontage, just around the corner from St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Spotted on my visit there a few months ago.

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Different types of waterfront properties in Brighton

08 Friday Jun 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, design, England, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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Brighton, England, U.K.

Those weird garden-shed-style structures on the boardwalk in the foreground, the stately historic homes and a rather ordinary looking tower block behind them all face the English Channel in Brighton. A quick snap taken toward end-of-day back in mid-May.

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