A Few Shots of Bay Street
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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.
It was a beautiful day today, so naturally I went for a photowalk with my trusty camera. I wandered down to the Esplanade then back, capturing the city on a Saturday afternoon. Here’s a few shots from earlier today.
[Note: this is an older blog post from July 2021 which I’ve brought over from my general blog site, Ramblings. I’ve posted it here on TOcityscapes as it’s in keeping with this blog’s topic.]
65 Church Street
St. Lawrence Market
Outside Meridian Hall, southeast corner of Front and Yonge Streets
On south-facing building at 423 Yonge Street
Another summertime pedestrian-only Sunday in Kensington Market. My shots on this particular excursion were not as plentiful as could be; it was brutally hot and humid that day so I didn’t last long as a result. I’ll be back…
There’s fantastic street art to be found while wandering Kensington Market. I was there recently for one of the Market’s Pedestrian-only Sundays, so I checked out some of the street art. I know there’s still much more to be discovered there, so a second trip is definitely in the works.
I call this street art site Apple Alley because of its location: the first alley behind the Apple retail store on the SW corner of College Street and Spadina Avenue (275 College St.). In this somewhat hidden and unassuming alley there is a treasure trove of street art – there’s even a couple of Elicser projects!
Mural in alley off Jarvis Street, near NW corner of Queen Street East
Unknown object at the intersection of King Street West and Niagara Street
I discovered this street art in an alley off King Street West, east of Strachan Avenue
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