19 Thursday Apr 2012
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Guided tour of Olympic Stadium in Montreal. It’s way quieter now than I remember it …
18 Wednesday Apr 2012
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Lots of rungs to get to the top … Seen in Montreal this weekend.
16 Monday Apr 2012
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There’s a lot of work going on next to the Monument National on Saint-Laurent in Montreal. Almost the entire block north of the venue looks like it’s being gutted or renovated.
This building, for example, is just a facade when seen from the main street. You have to go around back to see what’s really going on …
13 Friday Apr 2012
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So much blue up there, when the weather allows, anyway …
11 Wednesday Apr 2012
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Now that’s a slim profile. One of the coolest buildings in the Saint-Henri district of Montreal, as seen in 2009.
06 Friday Apr 2012
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A really tight, extremely cropped view of the Peace Bridge in Calgary, taken just a few days before it opened.
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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Calatrava pedestrian bridge, Calgary, on March 21, 2012, just days shy of its grand opening.
21 Wednesday Mar 2012
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Champ-de-Mars métro station in Montreal was recently identified as one of most beautiful subway stations in the world. Surely, the wonderful panes of stained glass has something to do with it.
17 Saturday Mar 2012
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… until this Santiago Calatrava creation is accessible to pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
I might not have liked how this bridge came to be and how much the public purse coughed up for it — and I’m unsure if I will ever understand accept how that all happened.
That said, the bridge is there, so we might as well enjoy it for what it is.
This picture was taken last month, not long after the temporary supporting bridge was removed and workers began putting together the finishing touches on the structure.
09 Friday Mar 2012
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Ricky Leong 