Environments

Last day of a mild winter.

The building is the TD Bank Tower (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Bregman + Hamann Architects, 1967) in Toronto. It is one of seven building that constitute the Toronto-Dominion Centre; three of them are by Mies and three more are in this style. The three buildings by Mies are the last of his North American period. This is the world HQ of TD Bank (aka Toronto-Dominion Bank and TD Canada Trust).

The East Tower of the Sun Life Centre in Toronto, at King and University. The West Tower is across University Ave. on the left. The sculpture is Sunlife by Sorel Etrog.

Christie Pits, Toronto. Toronto Maple Leafs at home in the Intercounty Baseball League, a sandlot league in Central and Southwestern Ontario. Since 2009, when this game was played, I have lost my notes about who the opponent was. The Leafs are in the field here, and I still remember that they won. In 1909 the city converted an old sandpit at the corner of Bloor and Christie and called it Willowvale Park. Everybody else called it Christie Pits, though, and in 1983 the city finally gave in and renamed it Christie Pits Park.

Another view of the doggie fountain, this time in the sun. The earlier view is in the note at top left. The park was recently renovated by Claude Cormier + Associés.

Lake Ontario is out of shot to the left, and Ashbridges Bay out of shot to the right.

Toronto

It was dark today so I re-edited an old photo. The mural is by Nunca (2009). I fear it may be covered up by a building going up on the parking lot, but don't really know if it will be or not. Update, September 2018: The mural wasn't covered up; it was destroyed. The building it was on was torn down to make way for the new building.

Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto

Toronto

Queen's Park station, Toronto

New City Hall (1965) in the background. It is usually attributed to Viljo Revell, but he thought his colleagues Heikki Castren, Bengt Lundsten, and Seppo Valjus should also be credited.

Canadian Pacific and I took our cameras to the Toronto Ukrainian and Polish Festivals today. Here we're at the Ukrainian Festival.

I decided after all I liked this one better than the last one (I had a different idea this afternoon).

A view of the interior of the bridge is in the PiP at bottom left.

Toronto. Looking east along Queen St. past Victoria St.

Arthur Meighen Building (Charles B. Dolphin, 1954), Toronto. It houses offices of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. The vigil on the sidewalk, organized by Nishnawbe Aski Nation, started on July 20 -- three months old today. More about the vigil: www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/08/11/first-nations-hold-suicide-crisis-vigil-on-st-clair.html Read more signs by clicking the pic or typing Z.