Here are some pictures from Doors Open Toronto. I didn't get a chance to post them earlier. This year I visited some of the following places... Toronto's First Post Office (1833-1839). 260 Adelaide Street East. Chef School @ George Brown College. 215 King Street East. Commerce Court North. 25 King Street West. The Canada Permanent Building. 320 Bay Street. The Canada Life Building. 330 University Avenue. Here there was an excellent view of Toronto from the 17th floor... The Green Roof at Exhibition Place's Horse Palace. 15 Nova Scotia Avenue. This is apparently the biggest solar roof in Canada, although it didn't look that big to...

The Real Darth Vader Building

author: Peter : Seattle, WA

Due to an earlier post, I felt compelled to document the actual "Darth Vader Building" while recently in Seattle... this is a picture form atop the Space Needle... ...and one from ground level. Seattle, Washington...

CartLegger Wanted to See the Flagler Building but This Is the Only Shot I Got, Sorry Cart. My Wife Is in Here Somewhere.

author: jack : St. Augustine, FL

St Augustine, Florida is a great place to go browsing, quaint streets, small shops, a tourist town, a college town, this first pic is the college. there she is walking her mom.

Trees, Wires, and Mysterious Buildings

author: elif : Budapest, Hungary

I took a trip to Budapest this January to visit a close friend and fell in love with the city the second I stepped off the plane. The buildings are dark and mysterious, and there are beautiful silhouettes of the tree branches and wires tangling together against the mid-winter sky. I tried to get a few shots of these elements, emphasis on tried, as well as a couple other oddities around the city - ex. the adorable little ash trays outside the metro exits/entrances that people politely use!

Montreal from the Aldred Building

author: CE : Montreal, QC

Last spring, my friend and I ventured to one of the top floors of the Aldred Building, a 23 story Art Deco skyscraper built in 1931. This is what we saw. Looking east. The Jacque Cartier Bridge can be seen in the distance. Looking north east. Chinatown can be seen in the centre of the photo as well as the exit of the tunnel of the Ville-Marie Autoroute. Looking north west towards the Downtown business district...

Buildings on Stilts

author: Elicar : Toronto, ON

Ontario College of Arts and Design and two buildings at U of T.

Ugliest Building in New York?

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

On a recent walking tour of Coney Island, Francis Morrone (www.francismorrone.com) described the Abe Stark Sports Center as one of the Ugliest Buildings in New York. I can't say that I disagree. From the utilitarian 1960s-era bomb-shelter aesthetic to the general apparent lack up maintenance, as well as the impassable fencing and steel pull-down doors, this structure seems to have many prerequisites for such a classification. Not to mention the element...

Crane Building

author: Cinic : Montreal, QC

Crane building (houses lofts now, I think) off the 15.

RCA Building

author: Cinic : Montreal, QC

Here is a shot of the old RCA building in St-Henri. The one with the Toshiba sign on top of it. I find it looks like something out of a videogame.

33 Thomas: Robot Building

author: CartLegger : New York, NY

Many of you have not doubt seen this mysterious and imposing structure jutting out death-star like from the streets of lower manhattan. Its an AT&T telephone switch hub for lower Manhattan. When it was built, it was built to survive--with a two week power supply and no windows, so all inside would be shielded from the feared Soviet nukes and dreaded fallout. Of course, now there are other fears, less tech, more tenuous, that weigh on us. A friend of mine, who grew up with a roof in the west village told me that within the urban mythos of his friends, it...

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