30 Saturday Nov 2019
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Calgary’s former Fire Station No. 1, foreground left, and the North-West Travellers Building, foreground right, are dwarfed by their much bigger neighbours The Bow and Telus Sky, as seen a few weeks ago.
05 Thursday Sep 2019
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There are a few places in Calgary where it’s possible to a wide diversity of architectural styles from different eras. This is a view from 9th Avenue west of 1st Street S.W. looking north.
28 Wednesday Aug 2019
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11 Sunday Aug 2019
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Telus Sky, seen from 9th Avenue South in downtown Calgary, is framed by surrounding structures. Behind it, you can see a small sliver of the Bow building.
05 Sunday May 2019
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Just a few minutes from the King’s Cross/St. Pancras railway complex in London are the Coal Drop Yards, a former industrial area along the Regents Canal being remade for modern retail/leisure, near other new buildings housing offices and residential spaces. Here is one of the buildings, as it was about a year ago.
03 Friday May 2019
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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.
14 Sunday Apr 2019
Posted in history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Toronto, trains, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
16 Saturday Mar 2019
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04 Monday Feb 2019
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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.
15 Friday Jun 2018
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While I was waiting for the clock tower climb and tour at Bath Abbey last month, I took a moment to admire the abbey’s stained glass and fan vault ceiling.
