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Happy Year of the Ox

12 Friday Feb 2021

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

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Happy Year of the Ox

This ice sculpture is one of several installed in Calgary’s Chinatown neighbourhood, part of this year’s extremely muted recognition of the lunar new year.

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Follow the lanterns

07 Tuesday Jan 2020

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Follow the lanterns, Calgary Alberta, Canada

The Calgary Tower looms large over a string of lanterns in Calgary’s Chinatown neighbourhood.

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Luck, fortune and longevity

09 Saturday Nov 2019

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

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Luck, fortune and longevity, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This is a portion of a mural, hidden away in a back alley in Calgary’s Chinatown that’s filled with more art like this.

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Hanging lanterns

18 Thursday Jul 2019

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Hanging lanterns, Calgary, Alberta,Canada

From a recent evening wander in Calgary’s Chinatown, with downtown office towers looming nearby.

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Lover’s Day

11 Thursday Apr 2019

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of a few pieces of public art sprinkled around Calgary’s Chinatown.

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Toil

02 Thursday Aug 2018

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Toil

Part of mural in Calgary’s Chinatown. I need to take a closer look at the rest of this piece and all the other random Chinatown street art one of these days …

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Luscious escape

15 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver

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b.c., Chinatown, gaden, park, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban, vancouver

Vancouver, B.C.

Reaching further into the archives: This is part of the Dr. Sun Yet Sen garden in Vancouver from a visit there in 2010.

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Under the dragon’s watchful eye

19 Sunday Mar 2017

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

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Chinatown, London

This ornament greets visitors from high above a street in London’s Chinatown. Seen on my visit there in September 2016.

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Red is for good luck

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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

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Chinatown in London, England

These lanterns hanging over the streets of London’s Chinatown add an extra splash of colour. Spotted this back in September 2016.

(Also … Happy Year of the Rooster!)

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Massive hulk rising

01 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, montreal, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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canada, Chinatown, CUSM, hospital, montreal, night, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban

Géant en construction

Now *that’s* different!
It was utterly shocking to turn a corner in Montreal’s Chinatown and see the new University of Montreal hospital complex (Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal) rising high where there used to be only sky. I’ve seen it slowly built on my visits over the years but this is the first time the structure’s seemed so in-your-face.
The building is clearly going to dwarf the entire neighbourhood around it. (For the sake of perspective, I was a bit shy of 500 metres from the building when I snapped this shot.)
There’s a website for the new hospital, en français bien sûr!

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