Happy Year of the Ox
12 Friday Feb 2021
Posted Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, urban
in12 Friday Feb 2021
Posted Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, urban
in07 Tuesday Jan 2020
Posted Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
in09 Saturday Nov 2019
Posted Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
in18 Thursday Jul 2019
Posted Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
in11 Thursday Apr 2019
Posted Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, art, calgary, canada, Chinatown, photowalk, public art, random, street art, urban
02 Thursday Aug 2018
Posted Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
in15 Sunday Apr 2018
Posted photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban, Vancouver
in19 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted London, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
in28 Saturday Jan 2017
Posted London, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
in01 Monday Dec 2014
Posted architecture, montreal, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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canada, Chinatown, CUSM, hospital, montreal, night, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban
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!