Month: September 2022 (Page 3 of 3)
This monument is in honour of the founder of Ontario Hydro, Sir Adam Beck. It is located in the landscaped median of University Avenue just south of Queen Street West. Designed by sculptor Emanuel Hahn, it was unveiled in 1934.
Queen Street West, outside Nathan Phillips Square
Earlier today, teams of 10 people pulled a Second Harvest truck 100 feet across Nathan Phillips Square, competing for the fastest time. Each team will have raised a minimum of $2,000 to support Second Harvest food rescue charity. Teams from TELUS, Starbucks, OMERS, Zurich Insurance also participated. Here’s a few highlights from the Truck Pull.
Second Harvest is such a worthwhile cause. Please consider supporting them if you’re able.
It was a sunny afternoon when I shot these frames. The 24-carat gold in the Royal Bank Plaza windows at 200 Bay Street were reflecting the city beautifully…
Urban Art Encountered On Today’s Walk
On Yonge Street below College. Poster created by Illustrator Sam Island. Zambian born, Backxwash is the stage name of Ashanti Mutinta, the first transgender woman to win the Polaris Music Prize. The Polaris’s penchant for reaching beyond the mainstream in choosing Canada’s best album of the year continues with its $50,000 annual award going to Montreal-based artist Backxwash for her album, “God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It”. The album uses distorted samples of Ozzy Osbourne performing in Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and In Heaven a song from David Lynch’s film Eraserhead, alongside pointed words about her life experiences.
Bay Street at the corner of Richmond Street West
Big City Blooms by Alanna Cavanagh
The Original 6 Nations Peace Treaty by Quentin “Que Rock” Commanda
Utility box in Berczy Park
A Few Shots of Bay Street
Berczy Park is situated near the St. Lawrence Market area, bounded by Scott Street, Front Street and Wellington Street.
The Park is named after William Berczy, a German-born architect, surveyor, and writer often considered a co-founder of modern Toronto with John Graves Simcoe.
The Dog Fountain
The central feature of the park is a large, two-tier fountain with cast-iron statues of 27 dogs and a cat. The dogs are all looking up towards a large bone perched on the fountain’s peak:
Jacob’s Ladder by Toronto Artist Luis Jacob
Originally, the Jacob’s Ladder sculptures had a rope lattice suspended between the fingers of the two hands to form a string game for kids. Not sure what happened to them, but during my visit the strings were definitely missing.
Brookfield Place is an often-photographed subject downtown, and why not?! The beautiful arches just beg to be captured.
Allen Lambert Galleria
The Allen Lambert Galleria, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, connects Bay Street with Sam Pollock Square. The 6-story high pedestrian thoroughfare is structured by 8 free-standing supports on each side of the Galleria. The supports branch out into parabolic shapes evoking a forest canopy or a tree-lined avenue due to the presence of building facades along the sides of the structure.
Sam Pollock Square
Who is Sam Pollock you may ask? I asked the same question and found out that he was a Canadian sports executive who was General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens for 14 years. In the 1990s, when the Hockey Hall of Fame relocated to downtown Toronto, the indoor public square at the end of the Allen Lambert Galleria was named Sam Pollock Square in his honour.
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